Bel-vedére or the Garden of the Muses

Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (2007), and Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2002). He has edited The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge, 2007), Soliman and Perseda (2015), Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, with M. J. Kidnie (Cambridge, 2004) and Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, with Guillemette Bolens (2011). Devani Singh is a Research Fellow at Université de Genève. Her publications include essays in The Chaucer Review and the Journal of the Early Book Society, and Shakespeare in Geneva (with Lukas Erne, 2018).

• Introduction; 1. Early modern commonplacing; 2. The Bodenham miscellanies; 3. The structure of Bel-vedére; 4. Identifying Bel-vedére's sources: from Thomas Park to Charles Crawford; 5. Identifying Bel-vedére's sources: the present edition; 6. The contents of Bel-vedére; 7. Textual introduction; A note on the text; A note on the annotation; List of authors and editions quoted in the annotation; Bel-vedére or The Garden of the Muses; Glossary notes; Textual notes; Appendix 1. Index of authors and texts quoted or adapted in Bel-vedére; Appendix 2. The paratext of the first edition of Bel-vedére (1600); Appendix 3. Origins of the source identifications of the passages in Bel-vedére; Appendix 4. Bel-vedére and England's Parnassus (1600); Index.

'This meticulously edited volume, which has a splendidly substantial introduction, provides us with a window into late Elizabethan culture and its role in establishing the tradition of English literature.' Andrew Hadfield, The Times Literary Supplement