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46 - Printing Press Technology

from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Helen Smith
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 341 - 347
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Blayney, Peter W. M. “The Publication of Playbooks.” A New History of Early English Drama. Ed. Cox, John D. and Kastan, David Scott. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. 383–422.Google Scholar
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Jowett, John. Shakespeare and Text. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1972.Google Scholar
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Twyman, Michael. The British Library Guide to Printing: History and Techniques. London: British Library, 1998.Google Scholar
Weiss, Adrian. “Casting Compositors, Foul Cases, and Skeletons: Printing in Middleton’s Age.” Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Gen. ed. Taylor, Gary and Lavagnino, John. Oxford: Clarendon, 2007. 195–225.Google Scholar

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