Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is a Stationer? -- Chapter 1. The Stationers' Shakespeare -- Chapter 2. Thomas Creede, William Barley, and the Venture of Printing Plays -- Chapter 3. Wise Ventures: Shakespeare and Thomas Playfere at the Sign of the Angel -- Chapter 4. "Vnder the Handes of …": Zachariah Pasfield and the Licensing of Playbooks -- Chapter 5. Nicholas Ling's Republican Hamlet (1603) -- Chapter 6. Shakespeare the Stationer -- Chapter 7. Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the First Folio -- Chapter 8. John Norton and the Politics of Shakespeare's History Plays in Caroline England -- Chapter 9. Shakespeare's Flop: John Waterson and The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Appendix A: Shakespearean Publications, 1591-1640 -- Appendix B: Selected Stationer Profiles -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.