Shakespeare's book : essays in reading, writing and reception / edited by Richard Meek, Jane Rickard and Richard Wilson.

1. Books:"An index and obscure prologue" : books and theatre in Shakespeare's literary authorship /Patrick Cheney -- "A man in print"? Shakespeare and the representation of the press / Helen Smith -- "Penn'd speech" : seeing and not seeing King Lear / Richard Meek -- "A stringless instrument" : Richard II and the defeat of poetry / Richard Wilson -- II. Texts: Foucault's epistemic shift and verbatim repetition in Shakespeare / Gabriel Egan -- "As sharp as a pen" : Henry V and its texts / Duncan Salkeld -- Shakespeare's deletions and false starts, mark 2 / E. A. J. Honigmann -- III. Readers: The First Folio : "My Shakespeare"/"Our Shakespeare" : whose Shakespeare? / George Donaldson -- The "First" Folio in context : the folio collections of Shakespeare, Jonson and King James / Jane Rickard -- A new early reader of Shakespeare / Stanley Wells -- "Too long for a play" : Shakespeare beyond page and stage / John Lyon., Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index.