Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts

Edward Jones is a Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and  the Editor of Milton Quarterly. His research interests centre on seventeenth-century archival records created by the English state, church, and parish and how  such documents inform the life and writings of John Milton. Book-length  publications include  Milton’s Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 and ,  Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642. A selection of his essays can be found in RES, JEGP,  A Concise Companion to Milton, The Oxford Handbook of Milton, and Milton in Context.

• Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgements xivIntroduction xvEdward JonesPart I Manuscript Studies 11 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3Elaine Treharne2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21Sarah Knight3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41William Poole4 Young Milton in His Letters 66John K. Hale5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87Edward Jones6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106Cedric C. BrownPart II Printed Books 1297 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131Neil Harris8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150Karen L. Edwards9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171Thomas N. Corns10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188Jameela LaresPart III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 20711 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209John Creaser12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229N.H. Keeble13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249Martin Dzelzainis14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266Sharon Achinstein15 Hands On 294Neil Forsyth16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322Pascale AebischerBy Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346Andrew McNeillieIndex 354

"At 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