From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career,
yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic …

Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the
English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects …

In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern
printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in …

Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the
book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the …

The story of the english lyric in early modern england is well established. it goes something
like this: by the close of the middleages, english poetry was in disarray; then Thomas Wyatt …

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized
reception of Ovid's poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through …

In this volume, Joshua Eckhardt examines the religious texts and books that surrounded the
poems, sermons, and inscriptions of the early modern poet and preacher John Donne …

Bookshops and the spaces occupied by the early modern book trade have received
attention as social environments. This study of the early publication history of Christopher …

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text
designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed …

Within weeks of his violent death at Deptford on 30 May 1593, Marlowe had been
commemorated as 'the Muses darling for thy verse'in an occasional poem written by George …