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It is a book that everyone interested in Shakespeares texts will want to read. * William R. Streitberger, Review of English Studies * Shakespeare, Court Dramatist is the work of a master scholar and merits careful attention from anyone interested in the history of English Renaissance drama. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * If the detail is sometimes overwhelming, his chapters are well-organized, and a helpful conclusions section summarizes this precise, provocative argument. Following Dutton, it seems that we are actually most likely to bump into a courtier at a Shakespeare play. * Emma Smith, Theatre Journal * draws together research and ideas from a long and distinguished career ... invite[s] us to think in new ways * Helen Hackett, Times Literary Supplement *

Dutton has written a challenging, important book which should make us take the bad quartos more seriously on their own terms, resist uncritical acceptance of conflated texts and re-examine Shakespeares methods of composition. * Paul Dean, The Journal * draws together research and ideas from a long and distinguished career ... invite[s] us to think in new ways * Helen Hackett, Times Literary Supplement * If the detail is sometimes overwhelming, his chapters are well-organized, and a helpful conclusions section summarizes this precise, provocative argument. Following Dutton, it seems that we are actually most likely to bump into a courtier at a Shakespeare play. * Emma Smith, Theatre Journal * Shakespeare, Court Dramatist is the work of a master scholar and merits careful attention from anyone interested in the history of English Renaissance drama. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * It is a book that everyone interested in Shakespeares texts will want to read. * William R. Streitberger, Review of English Studies *

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Richard Dutton was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Nottingham. He taught for many years at Lancaster University. Since 2003 he has been Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he served as chair of the English department from 2009 to 2013. He has published numerous monographs, scholarly editions, and edited collections relating to the early modern period, mostly focusing on the censorship of the drama, the authors Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and theatre history.

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