A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell

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A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell

edited by Edward Jones

(Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture)

Wiley Blackwell, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Bringing 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. Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion and literary history Announces the recovery of archival documents, which in some instances are over four hundred years old Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s

Table of Contents

Notes 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 Muller'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

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