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This is a wide-ranging, closely-researched collection, written by
scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, on the cultural placement
and transmission of texts between 1520 and 1750. Material and
historical conditions of texts are analysed, and the range of works
is wide, including plays and the Lucrece of Shakespeare (with
adaptations, and a discussion of 'reading' playtexts), Sidney's
Arcadia, Greene's popular Pandosto (both discussed in the contexts
of changing readerships and forms of fiction), Hakluyt's travel
books, funerary verse, and the writings of Katherine Parr and
Elizabethan Catholic martyrs.
This is a wide-ranging, closely-researched collection, written by
scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, on the cultural placement
and transmission of texts between 1520 and 1750. Material and
historical conditions of texts are analysed, and the range of works
is wide, including plays and the Lucrece of Shakespeare (with
adaptations, and a discussion of 'reading' playtexts), Sidney's
Arcadia, Greene's popular Pandosto (both discussed in the contexts
of changing readerships and forms of fiction), Hakluyt's travel
books, funerary verse, and the writings of Katherine Parr and
Elizabethan Catholic martyrs.
For the first time in an approachable, affordable volume this study treats the whole literary career of England's most distinguished protestant-republican poet and writer, considering the miscellaneous output in the light of contexts and political functions. It highlights self-presentational and persuasive characteristics, pays attention to the sense of vocation and also describes Milton's distinctive achievement in social genres. Milton's competitive humanist training is seen to accomodate uneasily to the specific demands of some public works. The book features unfamiliar texts, whilst canonical texts are set in the story of his long endeavours during a turbulent period in English history.
This book is a comprehensive account of Milton's two aristocratic
entertainments, Arcades and Comus in the context of their original
occasions and in the light of Milton's developing sense of vocation
as a poet in the earlier part of his career. The book is especially
original in the amount of socio-historical information it offers
about the relationship between the independent and pastorly poet
and his aristocratic patrons, and about the degree to which Milton
was prepared to work within the constraints and decorum of the
Caroline masque and country-house entertainment. A particular
feature of the book is the analysis of changes in the texts of the
two entertainments, from the earliest version in the Trinity
College manuscript through to the first printings, considering
Milton's changing manner of address to the different occasions of
performance and publication. A degree of tension is discovered
between the poet and the organisers of the Ludlow masque, and an
explanation is given for a kind of censorship in the Bridgewater
manuscript of Comus.
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