About this Elements Series:

Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text offers a platform for original scholarship about the creation, circulation, reception, remaking, use, performance, teaching, and translation of the Shakespearean text across time and place. From investigations of the early manuscript and print transmission of Shakespeare’s writings to studies about how they have been disseminated globally, the series defines the area of “Shakespeare and Text” broadly and aims to publish research that challenges—and pushes beyond—the conventional parameters of textual studies.

Areas of general focus might include textual editing and editorial practice; authorship and attribution; philology and bibliography; the history of reading; theatre studies; and approaches to textual studies that converge with literary criticism, theory, library studies, pedagogy, and the public humanities. The series editors welcome proposals for Elements at the intersection of textual studies and pre-modern race studies; gender, queer, and/or trans studies; and/or disability studies. So, too, they invite proposals about textual studies and the history of science and the environment/climate change. Elements might focus on the individuals, networks, communities, and institutions who have contributed to the migration and mediation of Shakespeare’s works, including collaborators and co-authors, printers, booksellers, book-owners, editors, teachers, theatre professionals, performers, translators, librarians, archivists, and the media. Also of interest are the objects made from these processes and new methods of approaching them.

Contact the Series Editors: Claire M. L. Bourne (claire.bourne@psu.edu) and Rory Loughnane (R.Loughnane@kent.ac.uk)