The book in history, the book as history: new intersections of the material text : essays in honor of David Scott Kastan

Introduction / Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser

The matter of form : book history, formalist criticism, and Francis Bacon's aphorisms / András Kiséry ; with Allison Deutermann

Shakespeare after queer theory / Mario DiGangi

Playbooks and the question of ephemerality / Alan B. Farmer

Book fetishes / Benedict S. Robinson

Spenser's thaumaturgy : "mental space" and the material forms of the Faerie queene (1590) / Thomas Festa

Indicating commodities in early English discovery narratives / Daniel Vitkus

"His idoliz'd book" : Milton, blood, and rubrication / Biana F.-C. Calabresi

New poet, old words : glossing the Shepheardes Calender / Sarah A. Klein

Glossing the margins in Milton's The reason of church-government / Chloe Wheatley

Hot Protestant Shakespeare / Claire McEachern

Early modern punctuation and modern editions : Shakespeare's serial colon / William H. Sherman

Unser Shakespeare in 1940 / Zoltán Márkus

Making histories, or, Shakespeare's Ring / Adam G. Hooks

Afterword / Peter Stallybrass.