Shakespeare's book

Richard Meek is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. Jane Rickard is Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. Richard Wilson is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cardiff.

• Introduction - Richard Wilson, Jane Rickard, and Richard MeekPart I Books1. ‘An index and obscure prologue’: Books and theatre in Shakespeare’s literary authorship - Patrick Cheney2. ‘A Man in Print’?: Shakespeare and the Representation of the Press - Helen Smith3. ‘Penned Speech’: Seeing and Not Seeing in King Lear - Richard Meek4. ‘A Stringless Instrument’: Richard II and the Defeat of Poetry - Richard WilsonPart II Texts5. Foucault’s Epistemic Shift and Verbatim Repetition in Shakespeare - Gabriel Egan6. ‘As sharp as a Pen’: Henry V and its texts- Duncan Salkeld7. Shakespeare’s Deletions and False Starts, Mark 2 - E. A. J. HonigmannPart III Readers8. The First Folio: ‘My Shakespeare’/‘Our Shakespeare’: Whose Shakespeare? - George Donaldson9. The ‘First’ Folio in Context: The Folio Collections of Shakespeare, Jonson and King James - Jane Rickard10. A New Early Reader of Shakespeare - Stanley Wells11. ‘Too long for a play’: Shakespeare Beyond Page and Stage - John LyonAfterword - Lukas ErneIndex