Along with my co-editor Rory Loughnane (University of Kent), I am delighted to invite proposals for Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, a brand new series of short books about the textual histories, present, and futures of the Shakespearean text.
We are interested in work that thinks in new ways about textual matters around Shakespeare and stretches the boundaries of what might be considered “a Shakespearean text.” We especially welcome proposals from early career scholars and those with something to say about textual matters around Shakespeare from the vantage of fields outside book history.
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Last year, I started reserving a day in each of my Shakespeare courses for students to "make" quartos. I wrote at some length (almost exactly a year ago) about the experience of making Q1 Hamlet with my students at VCU and posted instructions, information about supplies for the activity, and a link to the sheets (which I made from EEBO printouts).
This semester, I'm teaching a senior seminar called "Early Modern Drama: Manuscript, Print, Performance" that focuses on the material-textual processes that facilitated the making of theatrical performance and printed texts of the plays. So far, my students have reverse-engineered scribal backstage plots of Doctor Faustus, performed a scene from the same play using cue scripts, and "made" quartos.