A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces
the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of
Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence
on bibliographic studies as a whole.
* The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and
authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic
studies
* Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s
texts, and a useful bibliography
* Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in
the field
* Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and
faculty
Table of Content
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
Note on Texts xi
Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet? 1
Andrew Murphy
Part I Histories of the Books 15
1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare’s Time 17
Helen Smith
2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 35
Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier
3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays 57
Thomas L. Berger
4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 71
Anthony James West
Part II Theories of Editing 91
5 The Birth of the Editor 93
Andrew Murphy
6 The Science of Editing 109
Paul Werstine
7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age 128
Leah S. Marcus
8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text 145
Michael Best
Part III Practicalities 163
9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice 165
David Bevington
10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings 185
Sonia Massai
11 Mapping Shakespeare’s Contexts: Doing Things with Databases 204
Neil Rhodes
Afterword 221
John Drakakis
Bibliography 239
Index 258
About the author
Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003), the editor of The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality (2000), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Scotland (2004).
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