New Ways of Looking at Old Texts

by Renaissance English Text Society; Hill, W. Speed

• ISBN13: 9780866981538
• ISBN10: 0866981535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Mrts

Table of Contents

Preface
Editing Nondramatic Texts of the English Renaissance: A Field Guide with Illustrations	p. 1
1985: The Theory and Practice of Transcription
The Theory and Practice of Transcription	p. 25
The Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne and the Practice of Editorial Transcription	p. 33
Accounting for Absence: The Transcription of Space	p. 47
Editing Daniel	p. 57
1986: RETS-Newberry Library Lecture
Richard Johnson's Tom a' Lincoln Dramatized: A Jacobean Play in British Library MS. Add. 61745	p. 75
1986: Editing Women Writers of the Renaissance
Did Shakespeare Have Any Sisters? Editing Texts by Englishwomen of the Renaissance and Reformation	p. 103
Life and Letters: Editing the Writing of Margaret Roper	p. 111
Provenance and Propaganda as Editorial Stumbling Blocks	p. 119
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania: A Response to Jacobean Censorship	p. 125
1987: RETS-Newberry Library Lecture
Notions in Garrison: The Seventeenth-Century Commonplace Book	p. 131
1988: Is Typography Textual?
From Illustrated Epigram to Emblem: The Canonization of a Typographical Arrangement	p. 149
Malleable and Fixed Texts: Manuscript and Printed Miscellanies and the Transmission of Lyric Poetry in the English Renaissance	p. 159
Jonson's Authorization of Type in Sejanus and Other Early Quartos	p. 175
Reading Before the Lines: Typography, Iconography, and the Author in Milton's 1645 Frontispiece	p. 187
1989: The New Historicism and the Editing of English Renaissance Texts
The New Historicism and the Editing of English Renaissance Texts	p. 195
What is a Work? What is a Document?	p. 199
Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric	p. 209
Work, Document, and Miscellany: A Response to Professors de Grazia and Marotti	p. 223
1990: Voices of Silence: Editing the Letters of Renaissance Women
Behind the Arras: Editing Renaissance Women's Letters	p. 229
Recreating the Letters of Lady Anne Southwell	p. 239
Some Problems in Editing Margaret Cavendish	p. 253
Giving Voices to the Silent: Editing the Private Writings of Women	p. 263
1991: Editing Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies
Manuscript Circulation at the Elizabethan Court	p. 273
John Ramsey's Manuscript as a Personal and Family Document	p. 281
The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text	p. 289
Index	p. 299
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