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Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Part I. Publication: 1. The legitimation of printed playbooks in Shakespeare’s time; 2. The making of ’Shakespeare’; 3. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (I): the late sixteenth century; 4. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (II): the early seventeenth century; 5. The players’ alleged opposition to print; Part II. Texts: 6. Why size matters: ’the two hours’ traffic of our stage’ and the length of Shakespeare’s plays; 7. Editorial policy and the length of Shakespeare’s plays; 8. ’Bad quartos’ and their origins: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet; 9. Theatricality, literariness, and the texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet; Appendix A: the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in print, 1584–1623; Appendix B: Heminge and Condell’s ’Stolne, and surreptitious copies’ and the Pavier quartos; Appendix C: Shakespeare and the circulation of dramatic manuscripts.

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