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231 - Fortunes of the First Folio

from Part XXIV - Shakespeare and the Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Anthony James West
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1675 - 1683
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Greg, W. W. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1955.Google Scholar
Pollard, Alfred W. Shakespeare Folios and Quartos: A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1594–1685. London: Methuen, 1909.Google Scholar
West, Anthony James. Correcting the First Folio’s Table of Contents. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108:2 (2014): 238–42.Google Scholar

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