Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: What Is a Stationer? 1
4. Chapter 1. The Stationers’ Shakespeare 17
5. Chapter 2. Thomas Creede, William Barley, and the Venture of Printing Plays 28
6. Chapter 3. Wise Ventures: Shakespeare and Thomas Playfere at the Sign of the Angel 47
7. Chapter 4. “Vnder the Handes of . . .”: Zachariah Pasfield and the Licensing of Playbooks 63
8. Chapter 5. Nicholas Ling’s Republican Hamlet (1603) 95
9. Chapter 6. Shakespeare the Stationer 112
10. Chapter 7. Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the First Folio 132
11. Chapter 8. John Norton and the Politics of Shakespeare’s History Plays in Caroline England 147
12. Chapter 9. Shakespeare’s Flop: John Waterson and The Two Noble Kinsmen 177
13. Appendix A: Shakespearean Publications, 1591–1640 197
14. Appendix B: Selected Stationer Profiles 229
15. Notes 307
16. List of Contributors 363
17. Index 367