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the cambridge companion to shakespeare’s first folio Shakespeare’sFirstFolio,publishedin1623,isoneoftheworld’smoststudied books,promptingspeculationabouteverythingfromproofreadingpracticesin theearlymodernpublishingindustrytothe‘true’authorshipofShakespeare’s plays.ArgumentsaboutthenatureoftheFirstFolioarecrucialtoeverymodern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This CompanionsurveysthecriticalmethodsbroughttobearontheFolioandequips readerswiththetoolstounderstanditandtodeveloptheirskillsinearlymodern bookculturemoregenerally.Ateamofinternationalscholarssurveystherange ofbibliographic,historicalandtextualmaterialrelatingtotheFolio,itseditors, collectorsandcriticalreception.Thisrevealingvolumewillbeofwideinterestto scholarsofShakespeare,thehistoryofthebookandearlymoderndrama. EmmaSmithisProfessorofShakespeareStudiesattheUniversityofOxford.She haslecturedwidelyintheUKandbeyondontheFirstFolioandonShakespeare and early modern drama. Her research interests include the methodology of writing about theatre, and developing analogies between cinema, film theory and early modern performance. Her recent publications include Macbeth: LanguageandWriting(2013),TheCambridgeShakespeareGuide(Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an IconicBook(2016). Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ’ SHAKESPEARE S FIRST FOLIO editedby EMMA SMITH UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107491687 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2016 ©‘TheProvenanceoftheFolioTexts’G.Egan,2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Smith,Emma(EmmaJosephine),editor. TheCambridgecompaniontoShakespeare’sFirstFolio/editedbyEmmaSmith. Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPress,2016.|Series:Cambridge companionstoliterature|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. LCCN2016014640|ISBN9781107098787(hardback) LCSH:Shakespeare,William,1564 1616 Bibliography Folios.1623|Printing England London History 17thcentury.|Literaturepublishing England London History 17thcentury.|BISAC:LITERARYCRITICISM/European/English,Irish, Scottish,Welsh. LCCPR3071.C352016|DDC822.3/3 dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016014640 isbn9781107098787Hardback isbn9781107491687Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthirdpartyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. FORPETERW.M.BLAYNEY CONTENTS Listofcontributors pageix Preface xi emma smith 1. ShakespeareinPrintBefore1623 1 tara l. lyons 2. PublishingtheFirstFolio 18 eric rasmussen 3. PrintingtheFirstFolio 30 b.d.r. higgins 4. ThePrefatorialMaterial 48 chris laoutaris 5. TheProvenanceoftheFolioTexts 68 gabriel egan 6. ‘Complete’Works:theFolioandAllofShakespeare 86 peter kirwan 7. EarlyBuyersandReaders 103 jean christophe mayer 8. Editors 120 edmund g.c. king 9. Collectors 137 steven k. galbraith 10. ReadingtheFirstFolio 155 emma smith vii contents 11. DigitalFirstFolios 170 sarah werner 12. Afterword:theFolioasFetish 185 adam g. hooks Furtherreading 197 Index 200 viii CONTRIBUTORS GabrielEgan,DeMontfortUniversity StevenK.Galbraith,RochesterInstituteofTechnology B.D.R.Higgins,UniversityofOxford AdamG.Hooks,UniversityofIowa EdmundG.C.King,TheOpenUniversity PeterKirwan,UniversityofNottingham ChrisLaoutaris,ShakespeareInstitute,UniversityofBirmingham TaraL.Lyons,IllinoisStateUniversity JeanChristopheMayer,CNRSandUniversityofMontpellier EricRasmussen,UniversityofNevada EmmaSmith,HertfordCollege,Oxford SarahWerner,IndependentScholar ix
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