Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edition, 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (2008), and Beyond "The Spanish Tragedy": A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001). He has edited The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (2015). Among the collections of essays he has edited are Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, with M.J. Kidnie ( 2004) and Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, with Guillemette Bolens (2011). In 2012, he gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford and was the Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.

The editor and contributors are all leading experts on Shakespeare and textual studies making this a particularly authoritative companion

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Part 1: Research Methods and Problems

1.1 Shakespeare and 'Textual Studies': Evidence, Scale, Periodization and Access
Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Part 2: Current Research and Issues

2.1 The Shakespeare Manuscripts
Cathy L. Shrank (University of Sheffield, UK) and Paul Werstine (King's University College, UK)

2.2 The Early Printed Texts of Shakespeare
John Jowett (University of Birmingham, UK)

2.3 Shakespeare's Early Modern Books: Printing, Paratext and Text
Emma Smith (Hertford College Oxford, UK)

2.4 Shakespeare in the Early Modern Book Trade
Marta Straznicky (Queen's University, Canada)

2.5 Shakespeare's Early Readers and Users: Annotation, Commonplacing, Collecting
Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)

2.6 The Shakespeare Canon from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK)

2.7 Shakespeare's Editors from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

2.8 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Text
Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

2.9 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Apparatus
Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago, USA)

Part 3: New Directions

3.1 Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution Methodologies
Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia)

3.2 Shakespeare and Digital Editions
Sonia Massai (King's College London, UK)

Part 4: Material for Further Research

4.1 Chronology
Alan B. Farmer (Ohio State University, USA)

4.2 Resources
Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

4.3 A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts
Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, USA) and Ian H. De Jong (Academy of Nevada, USA)
4.4 Annotated Bibliography
Jean-Christophe Mayer (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France)
Index