Zachary Lesser teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and the history of the book in journals such as ELH, English Literary Renaissance and Shakespeare Quarterly.

'Lesser's book maps out important directions for Renaissance scholarship.' Forum for Modern English Studies

• List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: from text to book; 1. Speculation in the book trade; 2. The cultural uses of typography in early modern England: Walter Burre's The Knight of the Burning Pestle; 3. Marlowe's Jew goes to church: Nicholas Vavasour and the creation of Laudian drama; 4. Insatiate, roaring devils and outlandish cups: Thomas Archer's dialogic publishing in the querelle des femmes; 5. 'Courtier's merchandise': Thomas Walkley and the paradoxes of domestic policy; Epilogue: readings then and now; Index.

Zachary Lesser teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and the history of the book in journals such as ELH, English Literary Renaissance and Shakespeare Quarterly.

'Lesser's book maps out important directions for Renaissance scholarship.' Forum for Modern English Studies

• List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: from text to book; 1. Speculation in the book trade; 2. The cultural uses of typography in early modern England: Walter Burre's The Knight of the Burning Pestle; 3. Marlowe's Jew goes to church: Nicholas Vavasour and the creation of Laudian drama; 4. Insatiate, roaring devils and outlandish cups: Thomas Archer's dialogic publishing in the querelle des femmes; 5. 'Courtier's merchandise': Thomas Walkley and the paradoxes of domestic policy; Epilogue: readings then and now; Index.

Zachary Lesser teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and the history of the book in journals such as ELH, English Literary Renaissance and Shakespeare Quarterly.

'Lesser's book maps out important directions for Renaissance scholarship.' Forum for Modern English Studies

• List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: from text to book; 1. Speculation in the book trade; 2. The cultural uses of typography in early modern England: Walter Burre's The Knight of the Burning Pestle; 3. Marlowe's Jew goes to church: Nicholas Vavasour and the creation of Laudian drama; 4. Insatiate, roaring devils and outlandish cups: Thomas Archer's dialogic publishing in the querelle des femmes; 5. 'Courtier's merchandise': Thomas Walkley and the paradoxes of domestic policy; Epilogue: readings then and now; Index.