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This study establishes the remarkable presence of Shakespeare's plays and poems in the early modern English book trade.

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.

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 mod

Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern

The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related

This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640-1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems.

Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were re

There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments

An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of con