Publications

2025 The Politics of Book History, Then and Now Zachary Lesser · Journal of Early Modern Studies (University of Florence) — 2025 “Who Saw What When”: The Curious Incident of the Printed Book in the Manuscript Collection Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Quarterly · Scholar only — 2024 What Happened to Edwin Forrest’s Burned First Folio? The Power of Cataloguing and the Logic of Discovery Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Quarterly 2 2023 General editor, Arden Insights. Companion volumes to the Arden Shakespeare. Volumes published: William Shakespeare: A Brief Life, by Paul Menzer (2023); Shakespeare’s Objects, by Catherine Richardson (2025) Zachary Lesser · Arden Insights — 2023 Interpreting Shakespeare: Discover The First Folio Zachary Lesser · Scholar only — 2023 Surviving Shakespeare: Or, what we can learn from 2,993 copies and 378 fragments of the plays and poems. Zachary Lesser · The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023 — 2021 Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée Zachary Lesser · University of Pennsylvania Press 44 2021 Material / Digital Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare / Text 2 2021 Shakespeare in Collections/Collecting Shakespeare" Virtual Presentation by Dr. Zachary Lesser Zachary Lesser · Scholar only — 2019 Big Business and Digital Technology, 1970–2018 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Consolidation and Control in the World of Print, 1530–1640 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Early Beginnings to the Norman Conquest of 1066 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 From the High Middle Ages to the Coming of Print, 1066–1530 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Managing the Flood of Print, 1740–1780 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Minority Culture and Popular Print, 1920–1940 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Partisan Strife and the World of Print, 1695–1740 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Politics and Periodicals, 1641–1695 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 The Age of Mass Production, 1870–1920 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 The Age of the Mass‐Market Paperback, 1940–1970 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction Zachary Lesser · Wiley Blackwell 15 2019 The Distribution Revolution: Innovation and Diversity, 1820-1870 Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 The Material Text Between General and Particular, Edition and Copy Zachary Lesser · English Literary Renaissance 8 2019 The Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries Zachary Lesser · The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction · Scholar only — 2019 Unknowing Kind: A Response to Tanya Pollard Zachary Lesser · Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World: A Conversation · needs review 1 2019 Xeroxing the Renaissance: The Material Text of Early Modern Studies Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Quarterly 9 2018 Conscience Doth Make Errors: The Blind Spot of Shakespearean Quotation Zachary Lesser · Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World — 2018 The Book in Britain Zachary Lesser · Scholar only — 2016 The Book in History, The Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text: Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan Zachary Lesser · Beinecke Library and Yale UP 3 2015 Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age: A White Paper of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions Zachary Lesser · Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions — 2015 Hamlet after Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text Zachary Lesser · University of Pennsylvania Press 42 2015 Review of Stephen H. Grant, Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger (Johns Hopkins, 2014) Zachary Lesser · Renaissance Quarterly 0 2015 Review of Thomas L. Berger and Sonia Massai, Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (Cambridge UP, 2014) Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Quarterly 0 2015 Shakespeare between Pamphlet and Book Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare and Textual Studies 17 2015 Teaching the Metadata: Playbook History in the Undergraduate Classroom Zachary Lesser · Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives — 2013 Shakespeare’s Flop: John Waterson and The Two Noble Kinsmen Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare's Stationers 8 2013 Two Texts, Both Alike in Dignity Zachary Lesser · Lecture Stream for the Luminary Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet, for iPad — 2013 What Is Print Popularity? A Map of the Elizabethan Book Trade Zachary Lesser · The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England · needs review 45 2012 Review of Lukas Erne, Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators (Continuum, 2008) Zachary Lesser · Modern Philology 0 2012 Shakespeare's Flop: John Waterson Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare's Stationers: Studies in Cultural Bibliography · Scholar only — 2011 Playbooks Zachary Lesser · The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture 11 2011 Review of Valerie Forman, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage (Penn, 2008) Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Studies — 2009 Review of Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, gen. eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works (Clarendon, 2007) Zachary Lesser · SHARP News — 2008 Early Modern Digital Scholarship and DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks Zachary Lesser · Literature Compass 10 2008 The First Literary Hamlet and the Commonplacing of Professional Plays Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Quarterly 174 2007 Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare and Intelligent Design: A Response to Nancy Glazener Zachary Lesser · American Literary History 3 2007 Review of Adam Max Cohen, Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions (Palgrave, 2006) Zachary Lesser · The Review of English Studies 0 2007 Review of Edward Gieskes, Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England (Delaware, 2006) Zachary Lesser · Shakespeare Quarterly 1 2007 Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, and the Form of Tragicomedy Zachary Lesser · ELH 39 2006 Canons and Classics: Publishing Drama in Caroline England Zachary Lesser · Localizing Caroline Drama 33 2006 Copyright Zachary Lesser · The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature —