Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Catalogue
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: 'To the great Variety of Readers'
	Defining Histories: What's in a Name?
	Print Contexts: Strategies of Selection
	Print Paratexts: Strategies of Presentation
	Early Histories: The Example of Gorboduc
	Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare
Chapter 1 'True' Histories: Thomas Creede's Looking Glasses and the Print Identity of Queen Elizabeth's Men
	The Royal Histories of the Queen's Men
	Creede's Looking Glasses
	Creede's Print Brand for the Queen's Men
	Creede and the Emerging Market for Commercial Playbooks
	Conclusions
Chapter 2 Authorizing Histories: Andrew Wise and Shakespeare's English History Plays
	Wise Histories
	Wise Networks
	Wise Attributions and Conclusions
Chapter 3 United Histories: Nathaniel Butter and his Newsworthy Playbooks
	'True Paules bred': Butter's Networks at the Sign of the Pied Bull
	Publishing Protestant History Plays
	Butter, King Lear, and Histories of Unity and Division
	Selling Histories at St Austin's Gate
	Conclusions
Chapter 4 Collecting Histories: The Jaggard-Pavier Collection (1619) and Shakespeare's First Folio (1623)
	The 1619 Jaggard-Pavier Collection
	Shakespeare's First Folio
	Conclusions
Conclusion: 'A Historie of noble mention'
Appendix: Plays in Collection, 1560-1659
Bibliography
	Manuscripts
	Primary Texts
	Secondary Texts
	Reference Works
Index