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class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s amazing is that almost everyone has a favorite Shakespeare play, or has just seen a performance that they want to talk about\u2026.That\u2019s not true for the authors that many of my colleagues study.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">\u2014Zachary Lesser<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zachary Lesser<\/strong>&nbsp;(B.A., Brown University, Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and a general editor of&nbsp;<em>The Arden Shakespeare<\/em>&nbsp;(4th&nbsp;series), a distinguished scholarly edition of the complete works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His scholarship has helped transform the study of how Shakespeare\u2019s plays were published and marketed, and has made that knowledge central to interpreting them. He is author of&nbsp;<em>Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade&nbsp;<\/em>(2004), winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Award for the best book of the year in early modern studies, and of&nbsp;<em>Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text<\/em>&nbsp;(2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s amazing is that almost everyone has a favorite Shakespeare play, or has just seen a performance that they want to talk about\u2026.That\u2019s not true for the authors that many of my colleagues study.\u201d \u2014Zachary Lesser Zachary Lesser&nbsp;(B.A., Brown University, Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and a general <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/programming\/opening-panel-reception-the-first-folio-1623-and-today\/zachary-lesser\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Zachary Lesser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width-no-menu.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/550"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}