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Handbook explores authorship in Shakespeare studies. The four parts study notions of early modern authorship and Shakespeare's formation as an author; the role of audiences and readers in shaping authorship; the framing of Shakespeare as author; and attribution studies.
List of contents
- 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: Gabrielle Golinelli and 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
About the author
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.
