Proposals are invited for Some Circumstance of the Text, a planned collection of essays to memorialize and celebrate William Proctor Williams (1939–2023), whose more than half-century of scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and reviewing has made a profound and lasting contribution to the fields of early modern English literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, textual criticism, bibliography, and book history.

Proposed essays should draw upon, build upon, or engage with William’s ideas across any of the subjects in which he worked, including but not limited to:

• Textual criticism and bibliography
• Scholarly editing
• The history of the book
• Early modern manuscript and print studies
• Early modern theater history
• Early modern dramatic literature
• Shakespeare studies

Proposals must include an abstract (up to 500 words) and a professional bio (up to 250 words) and be sent to mapangallo@vcu.edu no later than Friday, August 30, 2024. Contributors will be selected by September 30, 2024 and initial drafts of essays (estimated length of 8,000 to 10,000 words) will be due by January 31, 2025.