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Book SynopsisBringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.
Trade ReviewAt a time when so much literary theory seems to disdain engagement with textual artifacts, this volume reminds us of the critical importance of the forensic analysis of modes of literary production and transmission by asserting that literature is always a handicraft, a thing made to be possessed and repossessed. - Stephen W. Brown, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Journal, 2016.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction xv
Edward Jones
Part I Manuscript Studies 1
1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3
Elaine Treharne
2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21
Sarah Knight
3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41
William Poole
4 Young Milton in His Letters 66
John K. Hale
5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87
Edward Jones
6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106
Cedric C. Brown
Part II Printed Books 129
7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131
Neil Harris
8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150
Karen L. Edwards
9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171
Thomas N. Corns
10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188
Jameela Lares
Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207
11 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209
John Creaser
12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229
N.H. Keeble
13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249
Martin Dzelzainis
14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266
Sharon Achinstein
15 Hands On 294
Neil Forsyth
16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322
Pascale Aebischer
By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346
Andrew McNeillie
Index 354
