In the eighteenth century, Shakespeare became indisputably the most popular English
dramatist. Published editions, dramatic performances and all kinds of adaptations of his …

Shakespeare's plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John
Fletcher's riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole …

How did Shakespeare write his plays and how were they revised during their passage to the
stage? James Purkis answers these questions through a fresh examination of often …

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to
the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida …

Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance—and what
interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them—is a longstanding and contentious one …

This edition presents a fully modernised and annotated text of Samuel Rowley's' When You
See Me, You Know Me', first performed by Prince Henry's Men at the Fortune playhouse c …

This paper will reconsider analytical and editorial methodology in early modern manuscript
studies. After a look at the age-old, but still crucial, problem of how best to deal with the …

There is no Shakespeare without text. Other than a few surviving signatures, a number of
legal documents, some warm words of praise from fellow dramatists such as Ben Jonson …

For almost a century Shakespeare's work has been viewed primarily under a supremacy of
performance with an insistence that Shakespeare wrote his work to be staged, not read. This …

Or afterlife, augmentation, amplification; or translation, transformation, transmutation; or
reimagining, reinvention, revision, recontextualization, re-envisioning; or meme, mashup …