Part I: Publication
1. The legitimation of printed playbooks in Shakespeare's time
2. The making of "Shakespeare"
3. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (I): the late sixteenth century
4. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (II): the early seventeenth century
5. The players' alleged opposition to print
Part II: Texts
6. Why size matters: "the two hours' traffic of our stage" and the length of Shakespeare's plays
7. Editorial policy and the length of Shakespeare's plays
8. "Bad" quartos and their origins: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet
9. Theatricality, literariness and the texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet
The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in print, 1584-1623
Heminge and Condell's "Stolne, and surreptitious copies" and the Pavier quartos
Shakespeare and the circulation of dramatic manuscripts.