Campbell Gordon - A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts: a festschrift for Gordon Campbell

1. Chapter 06
2. Chapter 07
3. Chapter 13
4. Chapter 15
5. Chapter 16

Edited by Edward Jones

This edition first published 2015
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Chapter 16, Shakespeare with a Difference, 2015 Pascale Aebischer

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A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell / edited by Edward Jones.
pages cm. (Concise companions to literature and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-63529-2 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-119-06731-3 (pbk.)
1.English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticism. 2.BooksHistory14501600. 3.BooksHistory17th century. 4.Codicology. 5.Manuscripts, Renaissance. 6.Books and readingHistory16th century. 7.Books and readingHistory17th century. 8.PrintingHistory16th century. 9.PrintingHistory17th century. 10.Milton, John, 16081674Criticism and interpretation. I.Jones, Edward, 1950 editor. II.Campbell, Gordon, 1944 honouree.
PR434.C66 2015
820.9004dc23

2015000045

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Cover image: Dutch 17th century booksellers shop.

This series offers accessible, innovative approaches to major areas of literary study. Each volume provides an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to gain an authoritative understanding of a given period or movement's intellectual character and contexts.

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For Mary, Gavin, Kirsten, and Stuart

Sharon Achinstein is Sir William Osler Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994) and Literature and Dissent in Miltons England (2003), and has edited, along with Elizabeth Sauer, Milton and Toleration (2008). She is currently preparing an edition of Miltons divorce tracts, Volume V of the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton.

Pascale Aebischer is Associate Professor of Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Shakespeares Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance (2004), Jacobean Drama (2010) and Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare (2013). She has co-edited Performing Early Modern Drama Today with Kathryn Prince (2012) and is general editor of Shakespeare Bulletin, the journal of early modern drama in performance.

Cedric C. Brown is Emeritus Professor of English and former Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Reading. In Milton studies he is author of John Miltons Aristocratic Entertainments (1985, revised 2009) and John Milton: A Literary Life (1995) and numerous essays. Outside Milton studies he has published on various materialities in seventeenth-century texts, on miscellanies and textual transmissions, and he is general editor of the series Early Modern Literature in History (sixty volumes to date). His major recent research, producing several essays and leading into a forthcoming book, has been into the discourses of friendship.