This course will be based on library work and is intended as a practical introduction to graduate research. It will address questions of the history of the book, of print culture, and of such catagories as "work," "character," and "author," as well as of gender and sexuality, through a detailed study of the (re)production of Shakespearean texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The is not primarily a course on Shakespeare (we will also be reading, for instance, Marx and Joyce) but rather a course on methods.