Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith
A lively, concise study of how the early collected edition of Shakespeare's plays was assembled, printed, circulated and preserved, tracing the book’s material history and the human decisions—actors, printers, editors and owners—that shaped the text we now call canonical; it combines bibliographical detail with cultural storytelling to show how textual variants, accidents of survival, restorations and changing editorial practices have determined which plays and passages reached readers, and argues that our modern understanding of Shakespeare depends as much on this messy physical and social afterlife as on the plays themselves.
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- 1623
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