Introduction Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai; Part I. Scripts and Manuscripts: 1. Playwriting in Shakespeare's time: authorship, collaboration, and attribution Heather Hirschfeld; 2. Ralph Crane and Edward Knight Paul Werstine; 3. Shakespeare's strayng manuscripts James Purkis; Part II. Making Books; Building Reputations: 4. The mixed fortunes of Shakespeare in print Sonia Massai; 5. 'To London all'? Mapping Shakespeare in print, 1593-8 Helen Smith; 6. Shakespeare as leading playwright in print, 1598-1608/9 Alan B. Farmer; 7. Shakespeare between pamphlet and book Zachary Lesser and Peter Stallybrass; 8. The canonization of Shakespeare in print: 1623 Emma Smith; Part III. From Print to Manuscript: 9. Commonplacing readers Laura Estill; 10. Annotating and transcribing for the theatre - Shakespeare's early modern reader revisers at work Jean-Christophe Mayer; 11. Shakespeare and the collection: reading beyond readers' marks Jeffrey Todd Knight; 12. Encoding as editing as reading Alan Galey; 13. Going postal; or, performing postprint Shakespeare W. B. Worthen; Part IV. Editorial Legacies: 14. Theatre editions Peter Holland; 15. Editing Shakespeare by pictures Keir Elam; 16. Format and readerships Andrew Murphy; 17. A man who needs no introduction Leah S. Marcus; 18. Emendation and the editorial reconfiguration of Shakespeare Lukas Erne; Part V. Editorial Practices: 19. Full pricks and great p's: spellings, punctuation, accidentals John Jowett; 20. Divided Shakespeare Alan C. Dessen; 21. Shakespeare's strange tongues Matthew Dimmock; 22. Before the beginning; after the end: when did plays start and stop? Tiffany Stern; Part VI. Apparatus and the Fashioning of Knowledge: 23. Framing Shakespeare: introductions and commentary in critical editions of the plays Jill L. Levenson; 24. Editorial memory Eric Rasmussen; 25. Shakespeare as network David Weinberger.