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Selected Bibliography

  • Bate, J. and Rasmussen, E. (2022) The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works. 2nd Edition. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Blayney, P. W.M. (1991) The First Folio of Shakespeare. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library.
  • Chakravarty, U.  (2023) “A Moniment, without a tombe”: Institution, Instruction, and Succession in Shakespeare’s First Folio. Shakespeare Quarterly, (74) 3, Fall 2023, pp. 217–232.
  • Collins, P. (2009) The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Connor, F. X. (2014) Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Depledge, E., & Kirwan, P. (Eds.). (2017). Chronological List of Other Shakespeare Publications Before 1900 Cited in This Volume. In Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740 (pp. 223–244). app, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • De Long, I. H. (2009) Speaking Volumes: The Folio Format in Premodern European Culture. PhD. University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Greenblatt, S., W. Cohen, J. E. Howard and K. E. Maus (eds) (2008) The Norton Shakespeare. 2nd edition. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Jowett, J. (2007) Shakespeare and Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kingsley-Smith, J. (2022) “Distinguished by the letter C”: Edmond Malone and Edward Capell as rival editors of Shake-spears Sonnets. Shakespeare Quarterly, (72) 1-2, pp. 52-78.
  • Lidster, A.  (2023) ‘Not on his Picture, but his Booke’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Practices of Collection. Shakespeare, DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2244463
  • Loughnane, R. (2023) BEN HIGGINS. Shakespeare’s Syndicate: The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade. The Review of English Studies, (74) 315, pp. 563–565.
  • Massai, S. (2007) Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McMullan, G. (2015) Reflections on the politics of editing a Complete Works of Shakespeare. Contemporary Theatre Review, (25) 1, pp. 76-79.
  • Murphy, A. (2003) Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Smith, E. (2016) Shakespeare’s First Folio: For Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, E. (Ed.). (2016). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Walsh, M. (2001) Form and function in the English eighteenth-century literary edition: The case of Edward Capell. Studies in Bibliography, 54, pp. 225-241.
  • Walsh, M. (2012) ‘Editing and Publishing Shakespeare’, in Fiona Ritchie and Peter Sabor (eds.), Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 21–40.
  • Wells, S. (1984) Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Wells, S.  and Taylor, G. (Eds) (2005) The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Selected Bibliography