Download or read book Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha written by Daniel Spann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet most are rarely read, performed or discussed. This book, the first to confront the implications of the 'Shakespeare Apocrypha', asks how and why these plays have historically been excluded from the canon. Innovatively combining approaches from book history, theatre history, attribution studies and canon theory, Daniel Spann unveils the historical assumptions and principles that shaped the construction of the Shakespeare canon.