Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edn 2013) and Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013). He gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2012.Florence Hazrat is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is author of Standing on Points: The History and Culture of Punctuation and Refrains in Early Modern Literature (forthcoming).Maria Shmygol is a Research Fellow on the ‘Complete Works of John Marston’ project at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial (1602) in the Malone Society Reprints series (2022).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction to Tito Andronico (Titus Andronicus)The Relationship of Tito Andronico to Titus Andronicus Issues of Race in Tito AndronicoThe Source of Tito AndronicoThe Peacham DrawingTitus and Vespasian and the Ur-TitusThe Chapbook Prose History and the BalladGerman Titus Plays in the Seventeenth CenturyTextual IntroductionThe Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien of 1620 and 1624Friedrich Menius and the 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd TragedienThe 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien and Their Theatrical OriginsConclusionThe 1620/1624 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien: Extant CopiesEditorial History Introduction to Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen (The Taming of the Shrew)The Relationship of Kunst über alle Künste to The Taming of the ShrewCharacters and Plot: Correspondences and DifferencesAdapting the Plot of The Taming of the ShrewSoliloquies and AsidesVerbal, Cultural and Dramatic LanguageThe Taming of the Shrew in German in the Seventeenth Century Textual IntroductionThe Early Editions and Their Contexts: Publication, Paratext and AuthorshipThe Order of Publication of the Two Editions of 1672Extant Copies of the Early EditionsEditorial History A note on the translationsA note on the commentary and collationTITO ANDRONICO IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONKUNST ÜBER ALLE KÜNSTE, EIN BÖS WEIB GUT ZU MACHEN IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONAppendix: Doubling charts for Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machenAbbreviations and referencesIndex

Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edn 2013) and Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013). He gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2012.Florence Hazrat is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is author of Standing on Points: The History and Culture of Punctuation and Refrains in Early Modern Literature (forthcoming).Maria Shmygol is a Research Fellow on the ‘Complete Works of John Marston’ project at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial (1602) in the Malone Society Reprints series (2022).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction to Tito Andronico (Titus Andronicus)The Relationship of Tito Andronico to Titus Andronicus Issues of Race in Tito AndronicoThe Source of Tito AndronicoThe Peacham DrawingTitus and Vespasian and the Ur-TitusThe Chapbook Prose History and the BalladGerman Titus Plays in the Seventeenth CenturyTextual IntroductionThe Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien of 1620 and 1624Friedrich Menius and the 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd TragedienThe 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien and Their Theatrical OriginsConclusionThe 1620/1624 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien: Extant CopiesEditorial History Introduction to Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen (The Taming of the Shrew)The Relationship of Kunst über alle Künste to The Taming of the ShrewCharacters and Plot: Correspondences and DifferencesAdapting the Plot of The Taming of the ShrewSoliloquies and AsidesVerbal, Cultural and Dramatic LanguageThe Taming of the Shrew in German in the Seventeenth Century Textual IntroductionThe Early Editions and Their Contexts: Publication, Paratext and AuthorshipThe Order of Publication of the Two Editions of 1672Extant Copies of the Early EditionsEditorial History A note on the translationsA note on the commentary and collationTITO ANDRONICO IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONKUNST ÜBER ALLE KÜNSTE, EIN BÖS WEIB GUT ZU MACHEN IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONAppendix: Doubling charts for Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machenAbbreviations and referencesIndex

Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edn 2013) and Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013). He gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2012.Florence Hazrat is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is author of Standing on Points: The History and Culture of Punctuation and Refrains in Early Modern Literature (forthcoming).Maria Shmygol is a Research Fellow on the ‘Complete Works of John Marston’ project at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial (1602) in the Malone Society Reprints series (2022).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction to Tito Andronico (Titus Andronicus)The Relationship of Tito Andronico to Titus Andronicus Issues of Race in Tito AndronicoThe Source of Tito AndronicoThe Peacham DrawingTitus and Vespasian and the Ur-TitusThe Chapbook Prose History and the BalladGerman Titus Plays in the Seventeenth CenturyTextual IntroductionThe Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien of 1620 and 1624Friedrich Menius and the 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd TragedienThe 1620 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien and Their Theatrical OriginsConclusionThe 1620/1624 Engelische Comedien vnd Tragedien: Extant CopiesEditorial History Introduction to Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen (The Taming of the Shrew)The Relationship of Kunst über alle Künste to The Taming of the ShrewCharacters and Plot: Correspondences and DifferencesAdapting the Plot of The Taming of the ShrewSoliloquies and AsidesVerbal, Cultural and Dramatic LanguageThe Taming of the Shrew in German in the Seventeenth Century Textual IntroductionThe Early Editions and Their Contexts: Publication, Paratext and AuthorshipThe Order of Publication of the Two Editions of 1672Extant Copies of the Early EditionsEditorial History A note on the translationsA note on the commentary and collationTITO ANDRONICO IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONKUNST ÜBER ALLE KÜNSTE, EIN BÖS WEIB GUT ZU MACHEN IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONAppendix: Doubling charts for Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machenAbbreviations and referencesIndex