Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction xvEdward Jones
Part I Manuscript Studies 1
1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3Elaine Treharne
2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21Sarah Knight
3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41William Poole
4 Young Milton in His Letters 66John K. Hale
5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87Edward Jones
6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106Cedric C. Brown
Part II Printed Books 129
7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131Neil Harris
8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150Karen L. Edwards
9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171Thomas N. Corns
10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188Jameela Lares
Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207
11 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209John Creaser
12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229N.H. Keeble
13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249Martin Dzelzainis
14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266Sharon Achinstein
15 Hands On 294Neil Forsyth
16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322Pascale Aebischer
By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346Andrew McNeillie
Index 354