Contents
Editorial  9
Donatella Pallotti and Paola Pugliatti

Part One 
Theory and History

Beyond Author-Centricity in Scholarly Editing  15
Hans Walter Gabler

Theories of Authorship and Intention in the Twentieth Century. An Overview  37
Dario Compagno

Part Two 
Case Studies

Religious Discourse 57

Vernacular Authorship in Late Medieval Religious Discourse. The Case of  
William Flete’s Remedies against Temptations  59

Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

‘out of their owne mouths’? Conversion Narratives and English Radical  
Religious Practice in the Seventeenth Century 73

Donatella Pallotti

Ego-Documents or ‘Plural Compositions’? Reflections on Women’s Obedient 
Scriptures in the Early Modern Catholic World  97

Adelisa Malena

Drama, Stage and the Law 115

The Anonymous Plotter in the Routines of Renaissance Theatre and Drama 117
Paola Pugliatti 

Shakespeare and Paradigms of Early Modern Authorship 137
Janet Clare

Rules and Textual Construction of the Vocational Practices of Actors and  
Lawyers in Early Modern England 155

Carla Dente

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Dramatic Adaptation, Authorship and Cultural Identity in the  
Eighteenth Century. The Case of Samuel Foote  175

Bianca Del Villano

Authorship and the Visual Arts 193

The Birth of Artist-Authors and the negozio dell’inestimabile  195
Corinne Lucas Fiorato

Appendix

Authors on Authorship  211

Contributors 235