A concise companion to Shakespeare and the text /

Introduction : what happens in Hamlet? / Andrew Murphy -- The publishing trade in Shakespeare's time / Helen Smith -- Reading and authorship : the circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 / Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier -- Shakespeare writ small : early single editions of Shakespeare's plays / Thomas L. Berger -- The life of the first folio in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Anthony James West -- The birth of the editor / Andrew Murphy -- The science of editing / Paul Werstine -- Editing Shakespeare in a postmodern age / Leah S. Marcus -- Shakespeare and the electronic text / Michael Best -- Working with the text : editing in practice / David Bevington -- Working with the texts : differential readings / Sonia Massai -- Mapping Shakespeare's contexts : doing things with databases / Neil Rhodes..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-257) and index..