Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83800-9 — Shakespeare in Print Andrew Murphy Frontmatter More Information SHAKESPEARE IN PRINT Second Edition Described by the TLS as ‘a formidable bibliographical achievement ... destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans’, Shakespeare in Print is now issued in a revised and expanded edition offering a wealth of new material, including a chapter which maps the history of digital editions from the earliest computer-generated texts to the very latest digital resources. Andrew Murphy’s narrative offers a masterful overview of the history of Shakespeare publishing and editing, teasing out the greater cultural significance of the ways in which the plays and poems have been disseminated and received over the centuries from Shakespeare’s time to our own. The opening chapters have been completely rewritten to offer close engagement with the careers of the network of publishers and printers who first brought Shakespeare to print, additional material has been added to all chapters, and the chronological appen- dix has been updated and expanded. is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, where he is Professor of English. His authored books include Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, – (Cambridge, ) and Shakespeare for the People: Working-class Readers, – (Cambridge, ). He has been the recipient of fellowship awards from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83800-9 — Shakespeare in Print Andrew Murphy Frontmatter More Information SHAKESPEARE IN PRINT A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing Second Edition ANDREW MURPHY Trinity College, Dublin © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83800-9 — Shakespeare in Print Andrew Murphy Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge , United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, th Floor, New York, , USA Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, , Australia –, rd Floor, Plot , Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – , India Anson Road, #–/, Singapore Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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Title page of the first edition of Henry VI (), giving the place of sale as ‘Cornwall’, in error for ‘Cornhill’. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. page . Title page of Othello (). © Marsh’s Library, Dublin. . The vault of the Folger Shakespeare Library, showing shelves of works by William Shakespeare. Photo by Thomas D. McAvoy/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images. . Basic Tonson family tree. . Illustration from Rowe’s edition (Romeo and Juliet). Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. . Title page of Thomas Hanmer’s edition of –. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. . Opening of the Smock Alley (Dublin) promptbook for Othello. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. . Preliminary pages of a copy of the first volume of Porter and Clarke’s American Folio edition of –, with pasted-in photographs of the editors themselves. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. . Illustration of The Tempest from John Dicks’ one shilling Shakespeare, published in the s. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. . Advertisement for W. H. Smith and Son, booksellers, with Shakespeare reading a book in a modern bookshop. Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images. . Dolores M. Burton loading material into an IBM punchcard peripheral at Boston College, with her assistant Ralph L. Kent observing. Photo by Jack O’Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83800-9 — Shakespeare in Print Andrew Murphy Frontmatter More Information Tables . Publication details of the ‘Pavier Quartos’ . Oxford University Vice-Chancellor’s expenditure and receipts for Sir Thomas Hanmer’s edition of Shakespeare . List of bookseller subscribers to William Jones’ edition whose location is specified in the subscribers’ list . Print run figures for Verity’s Pitt Press edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, from first edition through to x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83800-9 — Shakespeare in Print Andrew Murphy Frontmatter More Information Acknowledgements I wish to thank my former colleagues in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, where the first edition of this book was written, and where the second edition was begun. My particular thanks to Neil Rhodes. I am also grateful for the help and support I have received from new colleagues at Trinity College Dublin, and especially to Aileen Douglas, who, as Head of School, helped so much with my transition between the two universities. The new edition has benefited greatly from feedback and advice from a wide range of scholars. I would like to thank Adam Hooks for various friendly email exchanges on a variety of topics relating to early modern publishing, and for his very helpful feedback on Chapter ; John Jowett for a careful reading of the same chapter; Zachary Lesser for kindly sharing a pre-publication version of his Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes with me; Ben Higgins for letting me see unpublished material relating to Edward Blount and for conversations about the early book trade; Emma Smith for reading Chapter ; Kathy Rowe for an enormously helpful conversation about matters digital; Michael Best, Alan Galey, John Lavagnino and Paul Werstine for offering feedback and advice in relation to Chapter ; Eric Johnson for sharing materials in relation to his Open Source Shakespeare project; Simon Rowberry for casting an eye over the section on Project Gutenberg and for pointing me in the direction of new sources; Ian Gadd for answering questions in relation to Stationers’ Company practices; Gary Taylor for offering information on Edward Blount; Terri Bourus for sharing an advance copy of her special issue of Critical Survey on Q Hamlet. Other debts of this nature are registered