Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England: Ten Case Studies. Matthew Steggle. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xi + 200 pp. $109.95.
“Gizman” for “Guzman” (182, 345). The vaguely identified “one Thomas Looney” (219) later becomes “Thomas J. Looney,” though his first name was John, whence he is correctly called J. Thomas Looney (232). A table of all copies analyzed in Smith’s survey, with page numbers, would have been of great service. Such irritants to the nitpicker do not seriously compromise the pleasure and instruction this book will bring to the casual bibliophile or the Shakespeare enthusiast.