The different versions of Hamlet constitute one of the most vexing puzzles in Shakespeare
studies. In this groundbreaking work, Shakespeare scholar Terri Bourus argues that this …

Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the
book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the …

The inspiration for this collection began with a seminar on “Media, Interface and Cognition”
which we led at the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) conference in Los Angeles …

This chapter argues that the First Quarto of Hamlet (1603) expresses a more intense
sensitivity to polysemous typography than has been critically articulated. The orthography …

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from
Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from …

The article presents a brief explication of an allusion made in book 2 of the 17th century
English author Thomas Heywood's" An Apology for Actors," referencing Nicholas Ling's …

We do not know the day, month or even the year in which the young William Shakespeare
first came to London, the city in which he would establish himself as a playwright and where …

T om Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead premiered at the Edinburgh
Festival on 24 August 1966. A version of the play then transferred to the National Theatre at …

T here are no pirates in the first edition of Hamlet. That text cannot be convincingly attributed
to a piratical publisher, a piratical actor, or a piratical spectator. There are errors in the …