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 Middleton's works in all genres, greatly extending previous scholarship, and using the latest corpus-based attribution techniques.
This section situates individual authorial agency in the space between larger institutional forces and the material specificity of particular textual embodiments. Part III, The Texts, contains a full editorial apparatus for each item in The Collected Works: an Introduction, which summarizes and
extends previous scholarship, is followed by textual notes, recording substantive departures from the control-text, variants between early texts, press-variants, discussions of emendations, and (for plays) an exact transcription of all original stage directions. Cross-references make it easy to move
between the two volumes.
This authoritative account of the early texts includes some extraordinarily complicated cases, which have never before been systematically collated: Hence, all you vain delights (the most popular song lyric from the Renaissance stage), The Two Gates of Salvation, The Peacemaker, and A Game at
Chess (the most complex editorial problem in early modern drama, with eight extant texts and numerous reports of the early performances).
Author(s): John Lavagnino, Gary Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 1183
City: Oxford
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
The Roaring Girl
The Lady’s Tragedy
The Triumphs of Truth
The Manner of his Lordship’s Entertainment
Masque of Cupids
Civitatis Amor
A Fair Quarrel
The Owl’s Almanac
The Triumphs of Honour and Industry
Orazio Busino’s Eyewitness Account of The Triumphs of Honour and Industry
Masque of Heroes; or, The Inner Temple Masque
The Peacemaker; or, Great Britain’s Blessing
The World Tossed at Tennis
The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity
Honourable Entertainments
The Sun in Aries
An Invention
The Triumphs of Honour and Virtue
The Triumphs of Integrity
The Triumphs of the Golden Fleece
Measure for Measure: A Genetic Text
The Tragedy of Macbeth: A Genetic Text
The Life of Timon of Athens
A Game at Chess: General Textual Introduction
A Game at Chesse: An Early Form
A Game at Chess: A Later Form
Occasional Poems
The Witch
The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
The Bloody Banquet
Hengist, King of Kent; or, The Mayor of Queenborough
Wit at Several Weapons
The Nice Valour; or, The Passionate Madman
The Widow
The Changeling
The Spanish Gypsy
Lost Plays
An/The Old Law
More Dissemblers Besides Women
Women, Beware Women
No Wit/Help like a Woman’s
Anything for a Quiet Life
Lost Political Prose, 1620–7: A Brief Account
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