Shakespeare is both the world's most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself. This volume unites these creative practices.

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; General introduction; Part I. Shakespeare and Early Modern Quotation: Introduction; 1. Shakespeare and the early modern culture of quotation James P. Bednarz; 2. Shakespeare and Sententiae: the use of quotation in Lucrece Kevin Petersen; 3. 'The ears of profiting': listening to Falstaff's biblical quotations Beatrice Groves; 4. Quoting Hamlet Douglas Bruster; Part II. Quoting Shakespeare, 1700-2000: Introduction; 5. 'Shakespeare says ...': the anthology and the eighteenth-century novel Kate Rumbold; 6. Pope's Shakespeare and poetic quotation in the early eighteenth century Brean Hammond; 7. Shakespeare quotation in the Romantic Age Fiona Ritchie and R. S. White; 8. Quoting Shakespeare in the British novel from Dickens to Wodehouse Daniel Pollack-Pelzner; 9. Pedagogy and propaganda: the uses of quotation, 1750-1945 Frans De Bruyn, Gail Marshall and Ton Hoenselaars; 10. The impossibility of quotation: twentieth-century literature Craig Raine; 11. Quoting Shakespeare in twentieth-century film Toby Malone; Part III. Quoting Shakespeare Now: Introduction; 12. Creative writing: quoting Shakespeare in theory and in practice Julie Maxwell; 13. Quoting Shakespeare in contemporary poetry and prose Christy Desmet; 14. Mis/quotation in constrained writing Peter Kirwan; 15. 'Beauty too rich for use?': Shakespeare and advertising Graham Holderness; 16. Digital technology and the future of reception history Stephen O'Neill, Balz Engler and Regula Trillini Hohl; Afterword Margreta de Grazia.