Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION SHAKESPEARE / TEXT by Claire M. L. Bourne

I INCLUSIVE / EXCLUSIVE

1. FAIR / FOUL by B. K. Adams (Arizona State University, USA)
2. TEXT / PARATEXT by Hannah August (Massey University, New Zealand)
3. PUBLIC / PRIVATE by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (Ohio State University, USA)
4. EDITION / TRANSLATION by Régis Augustus Bars Closel (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil)
5. CANON / APOCRYPHA by Aleida Auld (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

II BEFORE / AFTER

6. NOW / THEN by Andy Kesson (University of Roehampton, UK)
7. MISCELLANY / SEQUENCE by Megan Heffernan (DePaul University, USA)
8. ORIGINAL / COPY by Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
9. SOURCE / ADAPTATION by Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, USA)
10. LIFE / AFTERLIFE by Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

III AUTHORIZED / UNAUTHORIZED

11. BOOK / THEATRE by Holger Schott Syme (University of Toronto, Canada)
12. TEXT-BASED / CONCEPT-DRIVEN by Katherine Steele Brokaw (University of California, Merced, USA)
13. SENSE / NONSENSE by Rebecca L. Fall (Independent Scholar, USA)
14. FACT / FICTION by Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa, USA)
15. PART / WHOLE by Paul Salzman (La Trobe University, Australia)

IV PRESENT / ABSENT

16. BLACK / WHITE by Miles P. Grier (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)
17. EXTANT / EPHEMERAL by Scott A. Trudell (University of Maryland, USA)
18. LOST / FOUND by Misha Teramura (University of Toronto, Canada)
19. PAPER / INK by Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
20. MATERIAL / DIGITAL by Zachary Lesser & Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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About the Author

Claire M. L. Bourne is Assistant Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her teaching and research focus on early modern drama, book history, textual editing, and theatre studies. She is the author of Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England (OUP, 2020) and has published extensively on book design and the history of reading. She is editing Henry the Sixth, Part 1, for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series, and is collaborating with Jason Scott- Warren (University of Cambridge) on a series of projects related to the Free Library of Philadelphia’s copy of the Shakespeare First Folio annotated by John Milton.