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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Shakespeare wrote his plays and how the players revised them by examining manuscripts that have survived from use in early modern theatres. Looking at collaboration, theatre practice and the Shakespeare canon, it will greatly interest researchers and advanced students of Shakespeare studies, manuscript studies, and textual history.
Trade Review'This is a temperate, scrupulous and exhaustive study, which deserves a longer review. … [Purkis's] meticulously detailed analyses, which represent a significant advance in our understanding of dramatic manuscripts generally, and Shakespeare's professional activities in particular.' Paul Dean, English Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Text, Collaboration, Evidence: 1. The theatrical text and the new bibliography: John a Kent and John a Cumber; 2. 'Foul papers', 'prompt books', and textual sufficiency: The Captives; 3. Attribution, collaboration, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy; Part II. Shakespearean Coincidences: 4. Curious coincidences: the collaborations of Sir Thomas More; 5. Singularly Shakespearean: attributing the Hand-D addition of More; 6. Canon, apocrypha, and Sir Thomas More; Works cited; Index.
