Claire M. L. Bourne

Laurie Maguire’s abiding interest in the labor of Shakespeare editors, as well as in the history of editing more broadly, has shaped my own thinking about why it matters to write about book objects and the people who contributed to their making/remaking. The Rhetoric of the Page exemplifies her attention to textual minutiae and the long histories of book design, and hearing this work in an earlier form inspired me to finish my own book about typography, performance, and early modern playbooks.