Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

This Element traces the history of Shakespearean bibliography from its earliest days to the present. With an emphasis on how we enumerate and find scholarship about Shakespeare, this Element argues that understanding bibliographies is foundational to how we research Shakespeare. From early modern catalogs of Shakespeare plays, to early bibliographers such as Albert Cohn (1827-1905) and William Jaggard (1868-1947), to present-day digital projects such as the online World Shakespeare Bibliography, this Element underscores how the taxonomic organization, ambit, and media of enumerative Shakespearean bibliography projects directly impact how scholars value and can use these resources. Ultimately, this Element asks us to rethink our assumptions about Shakespearean bibliography by foregrounding the labor, collaboration, technological innovations, and critical decisions that go into creating and sustaining bibliographies at all stages. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

Introduction: Enumerative Bibliography as the Foundation of Shakespeare Scholarship; 1. Shakespearean List-Making from Francis Meres to William Jaggard; 2. German Traditions of Shakespeare Bibliography: Format, Categories, Meaning; 3. Shakespeare Annual Bulletin and Shakespeare Quarterly: Anglo-American Annual Shakespeare Bibliographies; 4 Regional Shakespeare Bibliographies: Case Studies in Scope and Scholarly Attention; 5. Collaboration and Technology in the World Shakespeare Bibliography; Coda: Looking Forward.

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Craig, Estill Laura, Kris L. May, Todd Dorothy
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.01.2026
• EAN: 9781009614115
• ISBN: 978-1-009-61411-5
• Weight: 250 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Text
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Literary studies: poetry & poets, Language: history & general works, Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Language: history and general works, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, Bibliographies, catalogues, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Archiving, preservation and digitization