Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemina

Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early mod

An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

"Hodgdon's work should be required reading for anyone concerned with Shakespeare's cultural capital at the end of the twentieth century."—South Atlantic Revie