CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 9
3. CONTENTS 11
4. Introductory 15
5. 1. Writing and Floundering On, or, Prefatory Material 23
6. 2. Theobald's Early Interest in the Elizabethans 38
7. 3. Theobald as Shakespearian Editor 61
8. 4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee 89
9. 5. Don Quixote in Eighteenth Century England, or The Madness of Cardenio 107
10. 6. The Rifling of Beauty's Stores 127
11. 7. A Postscript on Motivation 146
12. Appendix: A Note on the Plates 153
13. Bibliography 154
14. Index 160