An examination of forty-one Shakespearean play texts, the 'bad quartos' or 'memorial reconstructions'.
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. The rise of the new bibliography; 3. Memorial reconstruction and its discontents; 4. Reporting speech, reconstructing texts; 5. Memory; Part II: 6. Introduction; 7. Diagnosing memorial reconstruction: the poem, the play, the text; 8. 'Tables ... stored full'; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.