Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the
patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English …

The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 reconstructs how eighteenth-century British readers
invented further adventures for beloved characters, including Gulliver, Falstaff, Pamela, and …

Publishing is in crisis. Publishing has always been in crisis, but today's version, fuelled by
the digital boom, has some frightening symptoms. Trade publishers see their mid-lists …

Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking
Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination …

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both
Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually …

This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in
1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in …

THE POPULARITY OF ENGLISH RENAISSANCE PRINTED PLAYS declined dra-matically
in 1997. For most of the twentieth century, scholars had asserted that plays were a …

We know Shakespeare's writings only from imperfectly-made early editions, from which
editors struggle to remove errors. The New Bibliography of the early twentieth century …

Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered
on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early modern period. The interests …

Located at the intersection of new historicism and the'new formalism', historical formalism is
one of the most rapidly growing and important movements in early modern studies: taking …