Philological Quarterly

Volume 91, Number 2 

Spring 2012

Special Issue: Shakespeare for Sale

CONTENTS

“Introduction: Shakespeare for Sale” by Adam G. Hooks

“The Market for Playbooks and the Development of the Reading Public” by Peter Berek

“Serials, Spinoffs, and Histories: Selling ‘Shakespeare’ in Collection before the Folio” by Tara L. Lyons

“Shakespeare’s Theatrical Folio” by Francis X. Connor

“The Shakespeare Apocrypha and Canonical Expansion in the Marketplace” by Peter Kirwan

“Arms and the Book: ‘Workes,’ ‘Playes,’ and ‘Warlike Accoutrements’ in William Cavendish’s The Country Captain” by Vimala C. Pasupathi

“Playbills, Prologues and Playbooks: Selling Shakespeare Adaptations, 1678–82” by Emma Lesley Depledge

Book Review by Angelica Duran

Book Review by Alexander Pettit