List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: ‘All saws of books, all forms, all pressures
past’
Hannah Leah Crummé (Lewis & Clark College, Oregon, USA)
1 Neighbours’ petition against the Blackfriars playhouse,
November 1596
Alan H. Nelson (University of California, USA)
2 Shakespeare’s coat of arms: The surviving manuscripts in
context
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA)
3 The Quiney papers
Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, USA)
4 Shakespeare indentures and chirographs
Alan H. Nelson (University of California, USA)
5 The course of the seals: an elaborate process of procedures
and checks
Adrian Ailes (Bristol University, UK)
6 Shakespeare and the playing companies
Lucy Munro (King's College London, UK)
7 Shakespeare at court: Audit Office records
William Streitberger (University of Washington, USA)
8 Shakespeare and the Replingham agreement
Robert Bearman (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK)
9 An archival and material reading of Shakespeare’s will
Katy Mair (The National Archives, UK)
10 The Blackfriars deed and the dawning golden age of
accessible documents
Eric M. Johnson (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index