ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates a historical and cultural interrelation between the reader and the audience of Shakespeare's time. A gradual increase of readers in the transitional stage of manuscript to printed books would be a natural social phenomenon. Shakespeare began to write and flourish in the 1590s, when there was a marked increase in the general public's intellectual aspirations sufficiently attested by its high literacy rate. The book records the author's observation of the annotations by a reader of a comedy and an English historical play in the 1623 Folio of Shakespeare. It also records observation of the annotations by another reader of a tragedy in quarto of 1622. Without doubt, popularisation of the stage in London attracted more and more readers of playbooks. London stationers also played an important part in this development.
