Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton

For the new work specifically in the field of Renaissance/early modern studies, see, for example, the Shakespearean studies by Steven Urkowitz, Shakespeare’s Revision of King Lear (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980); Gary Taylor and Michael Warren, eds, The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare’s Two Versions of King Lear (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983); Stanley Wells, “The Unstable Image of Shakespeare’s Text,” in Images of Shakespeare: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1986, ed. Werner Habicht, D.J. Palmer, and Roger Pringle (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1988), pp. 305-13; Random Cloud [Randall McLeod], “The Marriage of Good and Bad Quartos,” Shakespeare Quarterly 33 (1982): 421-31; Michael D. Bristol, Shakespeare’s America, America’s Shakespeare (London and New York: Routledge, 1990), especially chap. 4, “Editing the Text: The Deuteronomic Reconstruction of Authority,” pp. 91-119; and the witty summation in Margreta de Grazia and Peter Stallybrass, “The Materiality of the Shakespearean Text,” Shakespeare Quarterly 44 (1993): 255-83, which appeared after most of the present study was written but clearly anticipates a number of my arguments. For more general studies focussed on the period, see, for example, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Roger