Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "On Sitting Down to Copy King Lear Once Again"
  • "Abbreviations of Arts" : Shorthand and Early Modern Culture
  • Compendious Writing : The Origins of Stenographie
  • "I found it in the open field" : Textual Appropriation of Sermons and Drama
  • "Unnecessary Letters" : King Lear in an Age of Stenographical Reproduction
  • Crulentious Readings : Defective Writing in Q Lear
  • "Mark but the penning of it" : Cruxes in the 1608 Quarto of Lear
  • The Textual Interrelation of Quarto and Folio Lear.