Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. She has published Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and the co-authored Shakespeare's London (2015). With Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London. Her first monograph, Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture 1640–1680 (2013), explored how seventeenth-century women poets' uses of different poetic forms drew from the culture around them. With Hannah Crawforth, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. Her work focuses on the reception of Shakespeare in print, performance and criticism, and she has written for students, enthusiasts, theatregoers and scholars. She has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010), Marlowe in Context (Cambridge, 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016). For undergraduate readers, she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). Her work on the First Folio includes The Making of the First Folio (Bodleian Library, 2016) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford, 2016). This Is Shakespeare (Penguin, 2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers (Penguin, 2022) address a wide readership. She is an associate scholar with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a regular speaker in schools, literary festivals, theatres, libraries and book groups, as well as in universities. She has contributed to radio and TV programmes and written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian.

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• List of illustrations; 1. Remembering Shakespeare's Sonnets in Lucy Negro, Redux Joyce MacDonald; 2. The poetics of Antiquarian accumulation in A Lover's Complaint Miriam Jacobson; 3. Different samenesses Stephen Guy-Bray; 4. Shakespeare's canvas Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld; 5. 'Persuasion by similitude': finding likeness in Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Katharine A. Craik; 6. 'Nothing-to-be-glossed-here': race in Shakespeare's Sonnets Jane Kingsley-Smith; 7. Allegorical desire, or, The Sufi 'Phoenix and the Turtle' Madhavi Menon; 8. The poetics of Shakespearean Erasure: lyric thinking with Bhanu Kapil and Preti Taneja Ayesha Ramachandran; 9. Lucrece, letters, and the moment of Lipsius Feisal G. Mohamed; 10. Shakespeare's Arabic Sonnets Robert Stagg; 11. How to make a formal complaint: Sara Ahmed's Complaint! and William Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann; 12. They also serve who only stand and write, or, how Milton read Shakespeare's Sonnets Amrita Dhar; 13. Writing delight with beauty's pen: restoring Richard Barnfield's Lost Credit Will Tosh; 14. Ocular power and female fascinum in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis Tamara Mahadin; 15. Pretty Creatures: A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece, and early modern women's complaint poetry Sarah C. E. Ross; 16. Lyric voices and cultural encounters across time and space: the poetry of William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984) Jyotsna G. Singh; 17. The thing itself or the image of that horror: fictions, fascisms and we that are young Preti Taneja; 18. Shakespeare's refugees Dennis Kennedy; 19. Shakespeare as a source of dramaturgical reconstruction Shu-win Tang; 20. Shakespeare, race, postcoloniality: the state of the fields Jyotsna G. Singh, Amrita Dhar, Jessica Chiba, and Christopher Thurman; 21. Asian Shakespeares online from Singapore Li Lan Yong, Alvin Eng Hui Lim, Mika Eglinton, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Michael Dobson, Eleine Ng-Gagneux and Hyon-u Lee; 22. Strange shadows: translating Shakespeare Shoichiro Kawai, Timothy Billings, Lin Shen, Jean-Michel Déprats and Tai-Won Kim; 23. Gender and sexuality: the state of the fields Marjorie Rubright, Valerie Traub, Judy Ick, Alexa Alice Joubin, Madhavi Menon and Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto; 24. Shakespeare performances in England: outside London, 2022–23 Eleanor Rycroft; 25. Shakespeare performances in England: London, 2023 Lois Potter; 26. Professional Shakespeare productions in the UK, January-December 2022 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Ezra Horbury, 2. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Emma Depledge; Abstracts of articles in Shakespeare survey 77; Index.

Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. She has published Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and the co-authored Shakespeare's London (2015). With Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London. Her first monograph, Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture 1640–1680 (2013), explored how seventeenth-century women poets' uses of different poetic forms drew from the culture around them. With Hannah Crawforth, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. Her work focuses on the reception of Shakespeare in print, performance and criticism, and she has written for students, enthusiasts, theatregoers and scholars. She has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010), Marlowe in Context (Cambridge, 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016). For undergraduate readers, she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). Her work on the First Folio includes The Making of the First Folio (Bodleian Library, 2016) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford, 2016). This Is Shakespeare (Penguin, 2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers (Penguin, 2022) address a wide readership. She is an associate scholar with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a regular speaker in schools, literary festivals, theatres, libraries and book groups, as well as in universities. She has contributed to radio and TV programmes and written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian.

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• List of illustrations; 1. Remembering Shakespeare's Sonnets in Lucy Negro, Redux Joyce MacDonald; 2. The poetics of Antiquarian accumulation in A Lover's Complaint Miriam Jacobson; 3. Different samenesses Stephen Guy-Bray; 4. Shakespeare's canvas Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld; 5. 'Persuasion by similitude': finding likeness in Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Katharine A. Craik; 6. 'Nothing-to-be-glossed-here': race in Shakespeare's Sonnets Jane Kingsley-Smith; 7. Allegorical desire, or, The Sufi 'Phoenix and the Turtle' Madhavi Menon; 8. The poetics of Shakespearean Erasure: lyric thinking with Bhanu Kapil and Preti Taneja Ayesha Ramachandran; 9. Lucrece, letters, and the moment of Lipsius Feisal G. Mohamed; 10. Shakespeare's Arabic Sonnets Robert Stagg; 11. How to make a formal complaint: Sara Ahmed's Complaint! and William Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann; 12. They also serve who only stand and write, or, how Milton read Shakespeare's Sonnets Amrita Dhar; 13. Writing delight with beauty's pen: restoring Richard Barnfield's Lost Credit Will Tosh; 14. Ocular power and female fascinum in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis Tamara Mahadin; 15. Pretty Creatures: A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece, and early modern women's complaint poetry Sarah C. E. Ross; 16. Lyric voices and cultural encounters across time and space: the poetry of William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984) Jyotsna G. Singh; 17. The thing itself or the image of that horror: fictions, fascisms and we that are young Preti Taneja; 18. Shakespeare's refugees Dennis Kennedy; 19. Shakespeare as a source of dramaturgical reconstruction Shu-win Tang; 20. Shakespeare, race, postcoloniality: the state of the fields Jyotsna G. Singh, Amrita Dhar, Jessica Chiba, and Christopher Thurman; 21. Asian Shakespeares online from Singapore Li Lan Yong, Alvin Eng Hui Lim, Mika Eglinton, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Michael Dobson, Eleine Ng-Gagneux and Hyon-u Lee; 22. Strange shadows: translating Shakespeare Shoichiro Kawai, Timothy Billings, Lin Shen, Jean-Michel Déprats and Tai-Won Kim; 23. Gender and sexuality: the state of the fields Marjorie Rubright, Valerie Traub, Judy Ick, Alexa Alice Joubin, Madhavi Menon and Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto; 24. Shakespeare performances in England: outside London, 2022–23 Eleanor Rycroft; 25. Shakespeare performances in England: London, 2023 Lois Potter; 26. Professional Shakespeare productions in the UK, January-December 2022 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Ezra Horbury, 2. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Emma Depledge; Abstracts of articles in Shakespeare survey 77; Index.

Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. She has published Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and the co-authored Shakespeare's London (2015). With Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London. Her first monograph, Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture 1640–1680 (2013), explored how seventeenth-century women poets' uses of different poetic forms drew from the culture around them. With Hannah Crawforth, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. Her work focuses on the reception of Shakespeare in print, performance and criticism, and she has written for students, enthusiasts, theatregoers and scholars. She has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010), Marlowe in Context (Cambridge, 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016). For undergraduate readers, she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). Her work on the First Folio includes The Making of the First Folio (Bodleian Library, 2016) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford, 2016). This Is Shakespeare (Penguin, 2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers (Penguin, 2022) address a wide readership. She is an associate scholar with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a regular speaker in schools, literary festivals, theatres, libraries and book groups, as well as in universities. She has contributed to radio and TV programmes and written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian.

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• List of illustrations; 1. Remembering Shakespeare's Sonnets in Lucy Negro, Redux Joyce MacDonald; 2. The poetics of Antiquarian accumulation in A Lover's Complaint Miriam Jacobson; 3. Different samenesses Stephen Guy-Bray; 4. Shakespeare's canvas Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld; 5. 'Persuasion by similitude': finding likeness in Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Katharine A. Craik; 6. 'Nothing-to-be-glossed-here': race in Shakespeare's Sonnets Jane Kingsley-Smith; 7. Allegorical desire, or, The Sufi 'Phoenix and the Turtle' Madhavi Menon; 8. The poetics of Shakespearean Erasure: lyric thinking with Bhanu Kapil and Preti Taneja Ayesha Ramachandran; 9. Lucrece, letters, and the moment of Lipsius Feisal G. Mohamed; 10. Shakespeare's Arabic Sonnets Robert Stagg; 11. How to make a formal complaint: Sara Ahmed's Complaint! and William Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann; 12. They also serve who only stand and write, or, how Milton read Shakespeare's Sonnets Amrita Dhar; 13. Writing delight with beauty's pen: restoring Richard Barnfield's Lost Credit Will Tosh; 14. Ocular power and female fascinum in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis Tamara Mahadin; 15. Pretty Creatures: A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece, and early modern women's complaint poetry Sarah C. E. Ross; 16. Lyric voices and cultural encounters across time and space: the poetry of William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984) Jyotsna G. Singh; 17. The thing itself or the image of that horror: fictions, fascisms and we that are young Preti Taneja; 18. Shakespeare's refugees Dennis Kennedy; 19. Shakespeare as a source of dramaturgical reconstruction Shu-win Tang; 20. Shakespeare, race, postcoloniality: the state of the fields Jyotsna G. Singh, Amrita Dhar, Jessica Chiba, and Christopher Thurman; 21. Asian Shakespeares online from Singapore Li Lan Yong, Alvin Eng Hui Lim, Mika Eglinton, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Michael Dobson, Eleine Ng-Gagneux and Hyon-u Lee; 22. Strange shadows: translating Shakespeare Shoichiro Kawai, Timothy Billings, Lin Shen, Jean-Michel Déprats and Tai-Won Kim; 23. Gender and sexuality: the state of the fields Marjorie Rubright, Valerie Traub, Judy Ick, Alexa Alice Joubin, Madhavi Menon and Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto; 24. Shakespeare performances in England: outside London, 2022–23 Eleanor Rycroft; 25. Shakespeare performances in England: London, 2023 Lois Potter; 26. Professional Shakespeare productions in the UK, January-December 2022 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Ezra Horbury, 2. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Emma Depledge; Abstracts of articles in Shakespeare survey 77; Index.