ISBN : 9780198819998
This account of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays provides an account of its post-publication history, tracing the individual copies of the First Folio across time and space to understand what it has meant to its various owners and users.
Introduction: Sir Edward Dering goes shopping; 1 Owning; 2 Reading; 3 Decoding; 4 Performing; 5 Perfecting; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index