Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edition, 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators (2008), and Beyond “The Spanish Tragedy”: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001). He has edited The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (2015). Among the collections of essays he has edited are Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Drama, with M.J. Kidnie ( 2004) and Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, with Guillemette Bolens (2011). In 2012, he gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford and was the Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.

• List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland)Part 1: Research Methods and Problems 1.1 Shakespeare and ‘Textual Studies’: Evidence, Scale, Periodization and AccessClaire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA)Part 2: Current Research and Issues2.1 The Shakespeare ManuscriptsCathy L. Shrank (University of Sheffield, UK) and Paul Werstine (King’s University College, UK)2.2 The Early Printed Texts of Shakespeare John Jowett (University of Birmingham, UK)2.3 Shakespeare’s Early Modern Books: Printing, Paratext and TextEmma Smith (Hertford College Oxford, UK)2.4 Shakespeare in the Early Modern Book TradeMarta Straznicky (Queen’s University, Canada)2.5 Shakespeare’s Early Readers and Users: Annotation, Commonplacing, CollectingLaura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)2.6 The Shakespeare Canon from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First CenturyPeter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK)2.7 Shakespeare’s Editors from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First CenturyAndrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)2.8 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The TextMargaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada)2.9 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Apparatus Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago, USA)Part 3: New Directions3.1 Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution MethodologiesHugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia)3.2 Shakespeare and Digital EditionsSonia Massai (King’s College London, UK)Part 4: Material for Further Research4.1 Chronology Alan B. Farmer (Ohio State University, USA)4.2 ResourcesEmma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)4.3 A-Z of Key Terms and ConceptsEric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, USA) and Ian H. De Jong (Academy of Nevada, USA)4.4 Annotated BibliographyJean-Christophe Mayer (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France)Index

An indispensable resource covering both established and emergent scholarship, this volume is also an immensely practical guide to the field. Commendably too, this handbook demonstrates that profound erudition, scholarly illumination, and pioneering research can be presented as an accessible pedagogical intervention.