This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan era through the mid-seventeenth century, payi
The eleven essays in this volume explore the complex interactions in early modern England between a technologically advanced culture of the printed book and a s
When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well.
Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and ’material’ reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the r