This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The

This book explores the methodologies and assumptions governing answers to the question 'what did Shakespeare actually write?'

Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

Geoffrey Bullough’s The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare’s plays with a