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Andrew Murphy is 1867 Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. His authored books include Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790-1930 (Cambridge, 2018) and Shakespeare for the People: Working-class Readers, 1800-1900 (Cambridge, 2008). He has been the recipient of fellowship awards from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
'A formidable bibliographical achievement . . . this is destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans. Thanks to [Murphy], those hunting for truffles in the Bard's back catalogue will have a far better chance of knowing what they are looking at, and how it relates to the field of Shakespeare publishing as a whole.' Times Literary Supplement An extraordinary work of bibliographical scholarship, at once scrupulously accurate and thoroughly entertaining. Shakespeare Survey Murphy's [book is] monumental... the staggering appendix of editions, the various indexes, the substantial bibliography leave one gasping for air and in full gratitude for what he has accomplished. Renaissance Quarterly Andrew Murphy is having it both ways. Not content to produce an indispensable reference work, he has simultaneously written an immensely entertaining narrative that makes for compulsive reading. . . . Murphy brings [his material] alive with an enviable lightness of touch, making of Shakespeare in Print not only the authoritative scholarly history of Shakespeare publishing and editing but also a page-turner which many readers will find difficult to put down. Around the Globe
