David Watt is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. He has published articles on Hoccleve and book history and has contributed to the Broadview Anthology of British Literature.

• List of IllustrationsNote on Editions and AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series1. ‘Among the Prees’: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 111 and the Audience in and for the Series2. ‘I this book shal make’: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 744 and the Structure of the Series3. ‘That Labour Y Forsook’: Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.iii.9 and the End of the Series4. ‘The Substaunce of My Memory’: London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 and The Re-Formation of Character in the Series5. ‘My Skyn To Turne’: Beholding the Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53Conclusion: ‘Go, Smal Book’BibliographyIndex

The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’sSeries offers a refreshing and much- needed contrast to the usual critical approaches to the Series, which tend to concern themselves with Thomas’s financial worries, politics, and mental health.

David Watt is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. He has published articles on Hoccleve and book history and has contributed to the Broadview Anthology of British Literature.

• List of IllustrationsNote on Editions and AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series1. ‘Among the Prees’: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 111 and the Audience in and for the Series2. ‘I this book shal make’: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 744 and the Structure of the Series3. ‘That Labour Y Forsook’: Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.iii.9 and the End of the Series4. ‘The Substaunce of My Memory’: London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 and The Re-Formation of Character in the Series5. ‘My Skyn To Turne’: Beholding the Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53Conclusion: ‘Go, Smal Book’BibliographyIndex

The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’sSeries offers a refreshing and much- needed contrast to the usual critical approaches to the Series, which tend to concern themselves with Thomas’s financial worries, politics, and mental health.

David Watt is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. He has published articles on Hoccleve and book history and has contributed to the Broadview Anthology of British Literature.

• List of IllustrationsNote on Editions and AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series1. ‘Among the Prees’: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 111 and the Audience in and for the Series2. ‘I this book shal make’: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 744 and the Structure of the Series3. ‘That Labour Y Forsook’: Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.iii.9 and the End of the Series4. ‘The Substaunce of My Memory’: London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 and The Re-Formation of Character in the Series5. ‘My Skyn To Turne’: Beholding the Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53Conclusion: ‘Go, Smal Book’BibliographyIndex

The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’sSeries offers a refreshing and much- needed contrast to the usual critical approaches to the Series, which tend to concern themselves with Thomas’s financial worries, politics, and mental health.