The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other EssaysA collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play is a work for performance, with each performance based only in part on a text we call a script. That