Richard Dutton was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Nottingham. He taught for many years at Lancaster University. Since 2003 he has been Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he served as chair of the English department from 2009 to 2013. He has published numerous monographs, scholarly editions, and edited collections relating to the early modern period, mostly focusing on the censorship of the drama, the authors Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and theatre history.

Dutton has written a challenging, important book which should make us take the bad quartos more seriously on their own terms, resist uncritical acceptance of conflated texts and re-examine Shakespeares methods of composition.

• IntroductionPart 1: Playing and the Court1: Shakespeare, Patronage, and the Court2: Court Revels and Their Masters3: Line Lengths, Playing Times, and Ben Jonson4: The Revision of Early Modern Play Textsa: The Revision of Plays in Shakespeare's Dayb: Thinking About the Revision of Shakespeare's Texts in Modern TimesPart 2: Shakespeare's Multiple Texts5: More Sophisticated Historiesa: The Famous Victories of Shakespeare's Henry Vb: 2 & 3 Henry VI -- A True Contention6: Augmentationsa: Romeo and Julietb: Hamlet and Successionc: A Jacobean Merry Wives?7: Last Thoughtsa: Single Sequence Additionsb: Jacobean ShakespeareConclusionsBibliography

Richard Dutton was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Nottingham. He taught for many years at Lancaster University. Since 2003 he has been Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he served as chair of the English department from 2009 to 2013. He has published numerous monographs, scholarly editions, and edited collections relating to the early modern period, mostly focusing on the censorship of the drama, the authors Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and theatre history.

Dutton has written a challenging, important book which should make us take the bad quartos more seriously on their own terms, resist uncritical acceptance of conflated texts and re-examine Shakespeares methods of composition.

• IntroductionPart 1: Playing and the Court1: Shakespeare, Patronage, and the Court2: Court Revels and Their Masters3: Line Lengths, Playing Times, and Ben Jonson4: The Revision of Early Modern Play Textsa: The Revision of Plays in Shakespeare's Dayb: Thinking About the Revision of Shakespeare's Texts in Modern TimesPart 2: Shakespeare's Multiple Texts5: More Sophisticated Historiesa: The Famous Victories of Shakespeare's Henry Vb: 2 & 3 Henry VI -- A True Contention6: Augmentationsa: Romeo and Julietb: Hamlet and Successionc: A Jacobean Merry Wives?7: Last Thoughtsa: Single Sequence Additionsb: Jacobean ShakespeareConclusionsBibliography

Richard Dutton was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Nottingham. He taught for many years at Lancaster University. Since 2003 he has been Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he served as chair of the English department from 2009 to 2013. He has published numerous monographs, scholarly editions, and edited collections relating to the early modern period, mostly focusing on the censorship of the drama, the authors Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and theatre history.

Dutton has written a challenging, important book which should make us take the bad quartos more seriously on their own terms, resist uncritical acceptance of conflated texts and re-examine Shakespeares methods of composition.

• IntroductionPart 1: Playing and the Court1: Shakespeare, Patronage, and the Court2: Court Revels and Their Masters3: Line Lengths, Playing Times, and Ben Jonson4: The Revision of Early Modern Play Textsa: The Revision of Plays in Shakespeare's Dayb: Thinking About the Revision of Shakespeare's Texts in Modern TimesPart 2: Shakespeare's Multiple Texts5: More Sophisticated Historiesa: The Famous Victories of Shakespeare's Henry Vb: 2 & 3 Henry VI -- A True Contention6: Augmentationsa: Romeo and Julietb: Hamlet and Successionc: A Jacobean Merry Wives?7: Last Thoughtsa: Single Sequence Additionsb: Jacobean ShakespeareConclusionsBibliography