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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship
Author(s): Rory Loughnane (Author), Will Sharpe (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: December 9, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 928 pages
- ISBN-10: 019885241X
- ISBN-13: 9780198852414
Book Description
Diving into modern debates about early modern authorship, authority, and identity politics, contributors supply rich new accounts of the wider scene of professional authorship in early modern England, of how Shakespeare’s writings contributed to it, and of what made him distinctive within it. Looking beyond Shakespeare, the
Handbook seeks to provide a vital testing ground for new research into early modern literature and culture more broadly.Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently,
Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare (with Willy Maley), and has edited more than ten of Shakespeare’s plays for the New Oxford Shakespeare. He is a General Editor of The Revels Plays series and the CADRE (Co-Authored Drama in Renaissance England) database, and a Series Editor of Routledge’s Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Cambridge’s Shakespeare and Text.Will Sharpe is a full-time Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare at the University of Birmingham and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Warwick and Leeds. He contributed a monograph-length study on ‘Authorship and Attribution’ to the RSC volume
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013), and edited All Is True: Or, King Henry VIII for The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016). He is a revising editor of the updated Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2015) and is editing Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare Series. He is also one of the General Editors of Digital Renaissance Editions.
