Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture
A Companion to the Collected Works
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 November 2007
- ISBN 9780198185703
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1184 pages
- Size 255x195x45 mm
- Weight 2228 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 105 illustrations, 74 diagrams 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 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).
...elaborately cross-referenced...a good deal of effort has gone into making the Companion as user-friendly as possibe...
Table of Contents:
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: 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
Textual Introductions, Textual Apparatus, and Works Cited for 70 items from The Collected Works
Index to Notes on Modernization
Select Topical Index
