Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare''s artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a collaborative network of intellectual influence and dynamic interchange, and, the book argues, one that he helped substantially to create. In considering collaboration as a practice defining almost allof his earliest works, it shows that he was particularly active in its development in the early theatre scene of his nascent career, changing our sense of his development as a creative artist quite radically. Chapters exploring collaboration via theatre history, book history, and attribution debatescomplement the central three chapters detailing the different phases of Shakespeare''s collaborative work, which reorient our shifting sense of what it meant to him, and what he gained from it, at these other key moments of his artistic c