Editor: Kurt Daw
Designer: Nicole Thayer
Research Assistants: Liam Blaney, Alex Mays
Conceptual Consultant: David Daw
Copy Editor: Hillary Hight
It is a pleasure to publicly recognize sources of support for this project:
As a participant in the 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar "The Formation and Re-formation of the Book," led by Jon King and Mark C Rankin, I was able to spend a blissful summer at the Huntington Library. I am grateful to all the funders of this seminar. I want to particularly thank the leaders and my fellow participants who provided insightful responses about this edition, which was the focus of my seminar research.
San Francisco State University granted me a semester sabbatical in which I was able to substantially complete the project.
I am deeply indebted to the libraries where I was able to conduct research, including the Huntington Library, Sutro Collection of the California State Library, British Library, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Morgan Library, New York Public Library, Folger Library, The Library of Congress, and the collection of the Shakespeare Society of America, and especially to the librarians who assisted me at crucial moments: Stephen Tabor at the Huntington, Aaron Pratt at the Ransom Center, and Diana Kohnke and Jose Guerrero at the Sutro.
I was able to demonstrate this edition at the Internet Shakespeare Editions’ “Making Links” Conference at the University of Victoria, as part of the Shakespeare Association of America’s 2015 Digital Salon, and at the 2019 annual conference of the Association for Theater in Higher Education, where I received invaluable feedback.
I want to thank many fellow seminarians at the SAA who have seen this project in various stages of development and commented on it, especially those in the 2016 Editing for Performance Workshop that I led, the 2018 seminar on Scholar-Practitioner Shakespeare led by Chad Allen Thomas and Amy Rodgers, the 2019 seminar led by Leah Knight entitled Editing Editing, the 2020 Shakespeare and Interface seminar led by Lauren Shohet, and the 2021 seminar led by Zachary Lesser and Brandi Adams addressing the Politics of Bibliography, Textual Editing and Book History.