This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Study of the theories and methods informing editions of Milton and Shakespeare in the eighteenth century.