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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on references, quotations, names and pronouns; Introduction; Chapter 1 The fall of pessimism and the rise of New Bibliography, 1902-1942; Chapter 2 New techniques and the Virginian School: New Bibliography 1939-1968; Chapter 3 New Bibliography 1969-1979; Intermezzo: the rise and fall of the theory of memorial reconstruction; Chapter 4 New Bibliography critiqued and revised, 1980-1990; Chapter 5 The 'new' New Bibliography: the Oxford Complete Works, 1978-1989
Chapter 6 Materialism, unediting and version-editing, 1990-1999Conclusion: the twenty-first century; Appendix 1 How early modern books were made: a brief guide; Appendix 2 Table of Shakespeare editions up to 1623; Appendix 3 Editorial principles of the major twentieth-century Shakespeare editions; Works cited; Index
