ISSN 2279-7149 (online)
www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems
2016 Firenze University Press

Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 5 (2016), pp. 7-9 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-18100

Contents

Editorial 11
William Leahy and Paola Pugliatti

Part One

Introduction

Everything and Nothing: The Many Lives of William Shakespeare 17
Roger Chartier

Part Two

Case Studies

Biography and Biographism

‘the dreamscape of nostalgia’: Shakespearean Biography:  
Too Much Information (but not about Shakespeare) 31

William Leahy

William Shakespeare, My New Best Friend? 53
Andrew Hadfield

Shakesperian Biography and the Geography of Collaboration 69
Katherine Scheil

Shakespeare and Warwickshire Dialect 91
Rosalind Barber

‘Fabricated Lives’: Shakespearean Collaboration in Fictional Forms 119
Robert Sawyer



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Authorship, Co-Auhorship and Collaboration

Text, Style, and Author in Hamlet Q1 135
Christy Desmet

Authors of the Mind 157
Marcus Dahl

Shakespeare in Arden of Faversham and the Additions to The Spanish 
Tragedy: Versification Analysis 175

Marina Tarlinskaja

Exploring Co-Authorship in 2 Henry VI 201
Darren Freebury-Jones

Shakespeare and Middleton’s Co-Authorship of Timon of Athens 217
Eilidh Kane

‘ready apparrelled to begyn the play’: Collaboration, Text and Authorship 
in Shakespeare’s Theatre and on the Stage of the Commedia dell’Arte 237

Paola Pugliatti

‘mere prattle without practice’: Authorship in Performance 261
Thomas Betteridge and Gregory Thompson

Attribution Studies

Between Authorship and Oral Transmission:  
Negotiating the Attribution of Authorial, Oral and  
Collective Style Markers in Early Modern Playtexts 277

Lene Buhl Petersen

Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies of  
William Shakespeare’s Canon: Some Caveats 307

Joseph Rudman

Hand D and Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Literary Paper Trail 329
Diana Price



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Fake Shakespeare 353
Gary Taylor

Appropriation and Authorship

‘by curious Art compild’: The Passionate Pilgrime  
and the Authorial Brand 383

Donatella Pallotti

Transmission as Appropriation: The Early Reception of John Benson’s 
Edition of Shakespeare’s Poems (1640) 409

Jean-Christophe Mayer

Contributors 423