Zachary Lesser

712 total citations
18 papers, 144 citations indexed

About

Zachary Lesser is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, History and Classics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zachary Lesser has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 144 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 5 papers in History and 4 papers in Classics. Recurrent topics in Zachary Lesser's work include Renaissance Literature and Culture (4 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 papers) and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 papers). Zachary Lesser is often cited by papers focused on Renaissance Literature and Culture (4 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 papers) and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 papers). Zachary Lesser collaborates with scholars based in United States. Zachary Lesser's co-authors include Peter Stallybrass, Gordon McMullan, David Bevington, Goran Stanivuković, Stephen Colclough, Daniel Allington and Siân Echard and has published in prestigious journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation and ELH.

In The Last Decade

Zachary Lesser

14 papers receiving 88 citations

Peers

Zachary Lesser
Sonia Massai United Kingdom
Adam Smyth United Kingdom
Martin Wiggins United Kingdom
Scott McMillin United States
Ted‐Larry Pebworth United States
Curtis Perry United States
Michael Hattaway United States
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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
1.
Lesser, Zachary. (2021). Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
2.
Allington, Daniel, et al.. (2019). The Book in Britain.
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Lesser, Zachary. (2019). The Material Text Between General and Particular, Edition and Copy. English Literary Renaissance. 50(1). 83–92.
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Lesser, Zachary. (2019). Xeroxing the Renaissance: The Material Text of Early Modern Studies. Shakespeare Quarterly. 70(1). 3–31.
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Lesser, Zachary, et al.. (2017). The Book in History, The Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text. Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan. Renaissance and Reformation. 40(3). 287–289. 2 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary & David Bevington. (2016). Hamlet after Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text. Renaissance and Reformation. 39(1). 189–192. 4 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary. (2014). "Hamlet" After Q1. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary, et al.. (2008). Early Modern Digital Scholarship and DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. Literature Compass. 5(6). 1139–1153. 1 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary & Peter Stallybrass. (2008). The First Literary <i>Hamlet</i> and the Commonplacing of Professional Plays. Shakespeare Quarterly. 59(4). 371–420. 33 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary. (2007). Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, and the Form of Tragicomedy. ELH. 74(4). 881–908. 3 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary. (2006). Typographic Nostalgia: Playreading, Popularity and the Meanings of Black Letter. 5 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary, et al.. (2005). Structures of Popularity in the Early Modern Book Trade. Shakespeare Quarterly. 56(2). 206–213. 7 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary, et al.. (2005). The Popularity of Playbooks Revisited. Shakespeare Quarterly. 56(1). 1–32. 24 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary & Gordon McMullan. (2004). Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade. Renaissance and Reformation. 40(2). 133–136. 32 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary. (2004). Renaissance drama and the politics of publication. 5 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary. (2002). Mixed Government and Mixed Marriage in A King and No King: Sir Henry Neville Reads Beaumont and Fletcher. ELH. 69(4). 947–977. 1 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary, et al.. (2000). Vile Arts: The Marketing of English Printed Drama, 1512–1660. 39. 11 indexed citations
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Lesser, Zachary. (1999). Walter Burre's The Knight of the Burning Pestle. English Literary Renaissance. 29(1). 22–43. 7 indexed citations

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