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Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is a comprehensive companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context. It will be indispensable to scholars of Renaissance literature as well as essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the book in early modern Europe. - ;Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not only a companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which every scholar of Renaissance literature will find indispensable. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the book in early modern Europe. The book is divided into three parts. The first part, on The Culture, situates Middleton within an historical and theoretical overview of early modern textual production, reproduction, circulation, and reception. An introductory essay by Gary Taylor (The Order of Persons) surveys lists of persons written by or connected to Middleton, using the complex relationship between textual and social orders to trace the evolution of textual culture in England during the Middleton century (1580-1679). Ten. original essays then focus on Middletons connections to different aspects of textual culture in that century: authorship (by MacD. P. Jackson), manuscripts (Harold Love), legal texts (Edward Geiskes), censorship (Richard Burt), printing (Adrian Weiss), visual texts (John Astington), music (Andrew. Sabol), stationers and living authors (Cyndia Clegg), posthumous publishing (Maureen Bell), and early readers (John Jowett). The rest of the volume, supplies the documentation for claims made in the first part. Part II, the author includes detailed evidence for the canon and chronology of Middletons works in all Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ALPHABETICAL CONTENTS -- INDEX OF TITLES BY GENRE -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK -- PREFACE: TEXTUAL PROXIMITIES -- Part I: The Culture -- 'The Order of Persons' -- 'Early Modern Authorship: Canons and Chronologies' -- 'Thomas Middleton: Oral Culture and the Manuscript Economy' -- From Wronger and Wronged Have I Fee": Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Legal Culture -- 'Middleton, Music, and Dance' -- 'Thomas Middleton, Uncut: Castration, Censorship, and the Regulation of Dramatic Discourse in Early Modern England' -- 'Casting Compositors, Foul Cases, and Skeletons: Printing in Middleton's Age' -- 'Visual Texts: Thomas Middleton and Prints' -- Twill Much Enrich the Company of Stationers": Thomas Middleton and the London Book Trade, 1580-1627 -- 'Booksellers without an Author, 1627-1685' -- 'For Many of Your Companies: Middleton's Early Readers' -- Part II: The Author -- 'Introduction: The Middleton Canon' -- 'Works Included in this Edition: Canon and Chronology' -- 'Works Excluded from this Edition' -- Part III: The Texts -- 'Thomas Middleton: Lives and Afterlives -- 'Middleton's London -- 'Middleton's Theatres -- The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased -- Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires -- The Ghost of Lucrece -- The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets -- News from Gravesend -- The Nightingale and the Ant -- and, Father Hubburd's Tales -- The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary -- Plato's Cap -- The Black Book -- The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment -- The Patient Man and the Honest Whore -- The Phoenix -- Michaelmas Term -- The Puritan Widow -- or, The Puritan -- or, The Widow of Watling Street -- The Revenger's Tragedy -- A Trick to Catch the Old One -- Your Five Gallants -- A Mad World, My Masters -- A Yorkshire Tragedy -- Sir Robert Sherley -- The Two Gates of Salvation.
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