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<p>Notes on Contributors x</p> <p>Acknowledgements xiv</p> <p>Introduction xv<br /><i>Edward Jones</i></p> <p><b>Part I Manuscript Studies 1</b></p> <p>1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3<br /><i>Elaine Treharne</i></p> <p>2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21<br /><i>Sarah Knight</i></p> <p>3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41<br /><i>William Poole</i></p> <p>4 Young Milton in His Letters 66<br /><i>John K. Hale</i></p> <p>5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87<br /><i>Edward Jones</i></p> <p>6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106<br /><i>Cedric C. Brown</i></p> <p><b>Part II Printed Books 129</b></p> <p>7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131<br /><i>Neil Harris</i></p> <p>8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of <i>The Tempest </i>150<br /><i>Karen L. Edwards</i></p> <p>9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171<br /><i>Thomas N. Corns</i></p> <p>10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's <i>Logic </i>and the Renaissance Trivium 188<br /><i>Jameela Lares</i></p> <p><b>Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207</b></p> <p>11 Misprinting <i>Bartholomew Fair</i>: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209<br /><i>John Creaser</i></p> <p>12 <i>Reliquiae Baxterianae </i>and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229<br /><i>N.H. Keeble</i></p> <p>13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249<br /><i>Martin Dzelzainis</i></p> <p>14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266<br /><i>Sharon Achinstein</i></p> <p>15 Hands On 294<br /><i>Neil Forsyth</i></p> <p>16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering <i>Titus Andronicus </i>in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's <i>Anatomie Titus </i>322<br /><i>Pascale Aebischer</i></p> <p><i>By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides</i> 346<br /><i>Andrew McNeillie</i></p> <p>Index 354</p>

<p><b>Edward Jones</b> is a Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and  the Editor of <i>Milton Quarterly</i>. His research interests centre on seventeenth-century archival records created by the English state, church, and parish and how  such documents inform the life and writings of John Milton. Book-length  publications include  <i>Milton’s Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 and</i> ,  <i>Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642. A selection of his essays can be found in RES, JEGP, </i> <i>A Concise Companion to Milton, The Oxford Handbook of Milton, and Milton in Context</i>.</p>

<p>Through a series of case studies written by a global team of international scholars, this <i>Concise Companion</i> demonstrates how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy – an important cultural marker of the early modern period. Whereas manuscript culture centred on a group of literate readers and writers communicating with one another according to established practices, print culture served a wider audience and greatly increased literacy amongst the general population. Together, the written records in these two different forms combined to create the literary achievements of the Renaissance.</p> The Companion is divided into three sections, covering archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre,  religion, and literary history. The range of essays throughout is exceptionally broad – from the printing of the gospels in Arabic, to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare’s <i>Titus Andronicus,</i> and a group dedicated to the life and writings of Milton. The result is a text that provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s.

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