The early quartos -- Early collected editions -- The Tonson era 1: Rowe to Warburton -- The Tonson era 2: Johnson to Malone -- Copyright disputes: English publishers -- Copyright disputes: Scottish and Irish publishers -- American editions -- Nineteenth-century popular editions -- Nineteenth-century scholarly editions -- The new bibliography -- The later twentieth century -- Conclusion: twenty-first-century Shakespeares.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-486) and indexes.
Summary
The first ever comprehensive account of the way in which Shakespeare's texts have been edited and published from the Renaissance through to our own time. Murphy discusses all of the major scholarly editions and also attends to mass market popular texts, ranging widely across the rich field of Shakespeare publishing.