1. Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” in Labyrinths: Selected Stories Collected Fictions, ed. Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (New York: New Directions, 1964), 91.
2. John Kerrigan, “The Editor as Reader: Constructing Renaissance Texts,” in The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, ed. James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 102.
3. Jerome McGann, The Textual Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 4–5.
4. Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (New York: Viking Penguin, 1996), 7–8.
5. In ways that differ from our expectations, Renaissance readers were much more likely to own copies of romances like Amadis than they were plays. See, for examples, the inventories in Robert J. Fehrenbach, E. S. Leedham-Green, and Joseph Laurence Black, Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), vols. 1–7.