Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy (review)
from the version published the following year as part of the First Folio, even apart from any variations between the two texts” (208). The plays are historicized in a profound way, but no longer with the author’s history. Lesser’s radical approach permits a radical clarity. Treating the printed play as if it had no past, no conception or mansucript gestation, he casts a dazzling and original light onto the public moment of these plays’ birth. JAMES J. MARINO Cleveland State University