Shakespeare and Text

• A broad, balanced, and informed approach to the crucial question of Shakespeare's text
• Written by an acknowledged expert with extensive experience of editing Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• Includes an appendix surveying the textual situation in each of Shakespeare's works and a glossary of technical terms

Readership: Scholars and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Shakespeare

John Jowett, Reader at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

"...a lucid, insightful, and most welcome addition to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series...excellent, accomplished, and usefully controversial book by one of the most consistently brilliant editors of Shakespeare in our time." - Sonia Massai, The Review of English Studies

"Useful to undergraduates who are keen to extend and complicate their sense of the Shakespeare text." - Times Higher Education Supplement

"an informative and authoritative introductory guide to the textual complexities surrounding Shakespeare's dramatic works which, while broad in range, offers an impressively detailed analysis of his subject." - Elizabeth Ford, Notes and Queries

Introduction
1: Author and Collaborator
2: Theatre
3: The Material Book
4: The First Folio
5: Mapping the Text
6: Emendation and Modernization
7: Versification and Stage Directions
8: Texts for Reader
Appendix 1: Shakespeare in Early Editions and Manuscripts
Appendix 2: Glossary of Key Terms