The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship

Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare (with Willy Maley), and has edited more than ten of Shakespeare's plays for the New Oxford Shakespeare. He is a General Editor of The Revels Plays series and the CADRE (Co-Authored Drama in Renaissance England) database, and a Series Editor of Routledge's Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Cambridge's Shakespeare and Text.Will Sharpe is a full-time Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare at the University of Birmingham and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Warwick and Leeds. He contributed a monograph-length study on 'Authorship and Attribution' to the RSC volume William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013), and edited All Is True: Or, King Henry VIII for The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016). He is a revising editor of the updated Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2015) and is editing Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare Series. He is also one of the General Editors of Digital Renaissance Editions.

• 1: Rory Loughnane: Introduction PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND AUTHOR FORMATION 2: Heather James: Classical Inheritance 3: Tamara Atkin: Medieval Inheritance 4: Adrian Streete: Religion 5: Mel Evans: Language and Sociolect 6: Gilberta Golinelli Iolanda Plescia: Gender 7: Bruce R. Smith: Sexuality 8: Andrew Hadfield: Kinds of Author 9: Andrew Gordon: Textual Environments 10: Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson: Material Environments 11: Terri Bourus: Theatrical Environments 12: Jeremy Lopez: Competition 13: Meryl Faiers and Martin Wiggins: Economics PART II: SHAKESPEARE AND THE MECHANICS OF AUTHORSHIP 14: Dennis Britton and Melissa Walter: Research 15: Joshua Calhoun and Jonathan Walker: Tools and Materials 16: Andrew Mattison: Solo Authorship 17: Heather A. Hirschfeld: Collaboration 18: Andrew J. Power: Casting 19: Amanda Eubanks Winkler: Music 20: Will Sharpe: Adaptation and Revision 21: Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Sarah Neville: Genre 22: Lisa Hopkins: Form 23: Hugh Craig: Style PART III: MEDIATING SHAKESPEARE AS AUTHOR 24: James J. Marino: Early Performance 25: Amy Lidster: Preliminaries and Paratexts 26: Jennifer Young: Textual Space 27: Claire M. L. Bourne: Typography 28: John Jowett: Variant Texts 29: Tara L. Lyons: Collections 30: Eric Rasmussen and Ian De Jong: Annotation 31: José A. Pérez Díez: Editions and Canonization, 1623-2024 PART IV: CONCEPTS AND CRITIQUES 32: Patrick Cheney: Literary Author 33: Eoin Price and Catherine Clifford: Court Dramatist 34: Chris Fitter: Populist 35: Claire McEachern: National Playwright 36: Jesús Tronch: Attribution and Editing 37: Rachel White: Attribution and Intersectionality 38: Cristina León Alfar: Feminist Authorship Studies 39: Alan Stewart: Queer Authorship Studies 40: Michael Joel Bartelle: Authorship and Othering 41: Alexa Alice Joubin: Screening Authorship, Performativity, and Transness 42: Laurie Johnson: Authorship and Cognitive Studies 43: Vin Nardizzi: Ecologies of Authorship 44: Gary Taylor: The Politics of Attribution