Introduction : what happens in Hamlet? / Andrew Murphy
The publishing trade in Shakespeare's time / Helen Smith
Reading and authorship : the circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 / Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier
Shakespeare writ small : early single editions of Shakespeare's plays / Thomas L. Berger
The life of the first folio in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Anthony James West
The birth of the editor / Andrew Murphy
The science of editing / Paul Werstine
Editing Shakespeare in a postmodern age / Leah S. Marcus
Shakespeare and the electronic text / Michael Best
Working with the text : editing in practice / David Bevington
Working with the texts : differential readings / Sonia Massai
Mapping Shakespeare's contexts : doing things with databases / Neil Rhodes.
A concise companion to Shakespeare and the text. ISBN 9781405135283. Published by Blackwell in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.