Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and a General Editor of The Revels Plays. He is the author and editor of many books, including, most recently, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2024) and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship (Oxford, 2025). He is a series editor of Routledge's Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Cambridge's Elements in Shakespeare and Text.

A magisterial work. Rory Loughnane turns his scrupulous attention to the years between Shakespeare's death and the publication of the 1623 folio. This is a study not just of Shakespeare's texts but of his reputation. Examining company contexts, play revivals and adaptations, play publication and sales, it shows how Shakespeare became Shakespeare.

• Introduction: An Office to the Dead I Later Shakespeare, 1600-1613 Introduction 1: Scripts 2: Repertory 3: Print Conclusion: Retiring Shakespeare Interlude II AFTER SHAKESPEARE, 1614-1623 Introduction 4: The Living Years, 1614-1616 5: Consolidation, 1616-1618 6: Challenges, 1619-1621 7: Preservation, 1622-1623 Conclusion: Creating Shakespeare Conclusion: 'And art aliue still, while thy Booke doth liue'

Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and a General Editor of The Revels Plays. He is the author and editor of many books, including, most recently, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2024) and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship (Oxford, 2025). He is a series editor of Routledge's Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Cambridge's Elements in Shakespeare and Text.

A magisterial work. Rory Loughnane turns his scrupulous attention to the years between Shakespeare's death and the publication of the 1623 folio. This is a study not just of Shakespeare's texts but of his reputation. Examining company contexts, play revivals and adaptations, play publication and sales, it shows how Shakespeare became Shakespeare.

• Introduction: An Office to the Dead I Later Shakespeare, 1600-1613 Introduction 1: Scripts 2: Repertory 3: Print Conclusion: Retiring Shakespeare Interlude II AFTER SHAKESPEARE, 1614-1623 Introduction 4: The Living Years, 1614-1616 5: Consolidation, 1616-1618 6: Challenges, 1619-1621 7: Preservation, 1622-1623 Conclusion: Creating Shakespeare Conclusion: 'And art aliue still, while thy Booke doth liue'

Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and a General Editor of The Revels Plays. He is the author and editor of many books, including, most recently, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2024) and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship (Oxford, 2025). He is a series editor of Routledge's Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Cambridge's Elements in Shakespeare and Text.

A magisterial work. Rory Loughnane turns his scrupulous attention to the years between Shakespeare's death and the publication of the 1623 folio. This is a study not just of Shakespeare's texts but of his reputation. Examining company contexts, play revivals and adaptations, play publication and sales, it shows how Shakespeare became Shakespeare.

• Introduction: An Office to the Dead I Later Shakespeare, 1600-1613 Introduction 1: Scripts 2: Repertory 3: Print Conclusion: Retiring Shakespeare Interlude II AFTER SHAKESPEARE, 1614-1623 Introduction 4: The Living Years, 1614-1616 5: Consolidation, 1616-1618 6: Challenges, 1619-1621 7: Preservation, 1622-1623 Conclusion: Creating Shakespeare Conclusion: 'And art aliue still, while thy Booke doth liue'