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Abstract: VOLUME 1 Publishing History: The First Five Books of the Lawes Textual Introduction: The First Four Books OF THE LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICALL POLITIE 1. Preface 2. The First Book 3. The Second Book 4. The Third Book 5. The Fourth Book 6. John Spenser, To the Reader 7. Textual Commentary Appendix I. Nonsubstantive Variants Appendix II. Corrections of Miscitations Appendix III. The Composition, Printing, and Proofing of the 1593 Folio VOLUME 2 Textual Introduction: The Fifth Book

Abstract: Dina Ackerman, Ann Blair, Markman Ellis, Joe Farrell, Juliet Fleming, Margreta de Grazia, Joan DeJean, Rachel Doggett, Jim Green, Andrew Honey, Richard Kuhta, Michael Mendle, Barbara Mowat, Cyrus Mulready, Karen Nipps, Dever Powell, Nan Ridehalgh, Don Skemer, Germaine Warkentin, Henry Woudhuysen, Laetitia Yeandle, and Georgianna Ziegler. Peter Blayney, Jessie Ann Owens, and Bill Sherman are everywhere in this piece through their generous sharing of materials and suggestions. No acknowledgment could repay our debt to them. 1 Unless otherwise noted, quotations of Hamlet throughout this essay follow The First Folio of Shakespeare, prep. Charlton Hinman (New York: W. W. Norton, 1968), a facsimile edition of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (London, 1623), as do quotations from all other plays by Shakespeare. Citations include both Hinman’s through-line numbers and act-scene-line numbers keyed to The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974). Translations of foreign-language quotations are our own. 2 The tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke by William Shake-speare . . . (London, 1603), sig. D4v; and Margreta de Grazia, “Soliloquies and Wages in the Age of Emergent Consciousness,” Textual Practice 9 (1995): 67–92, esp. 73–74. 3 See Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990); and Lina Bolzoni, La Stanza della Memoria: Modelli Letterari e Iconografici nell’Eta della Stampa (Turin: Einaudi, 1995). Hamlet’s Tables and the Technologies of Writing in Renaissance England

Abstract: For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation. The edition retains the Textual Analysis of the previous editor, Jay L. Halio, shortened and with a new preface by Brian Gibbons. Professor Halio, accepting that we have two versions of equal authority, the one derived from Shakespeare's rough drafts, the other from a manuscript used in the playhouses during the seventeenth century, chooses the Folio as the text for this edition. He explains the differences between the two versions and alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction and by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto.

Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. An introduction to bibliographical biography 2. Community properties 3. Upstart crows and other emergencies 4. Jonson, Martial and the mechanics of plagiarism 5. Scripts in the marketplace: Jonson and editorial repossession 6. Afterword: the second folio Index.