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Shakespeare is both the world's most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself. This volume unites these creative practices.

The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years.

Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.