Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book
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Steven W. May is Adjunct Professor of English at Emory University and Senior Research Fellow, School of English, University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and their Contexts, editor of books including Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, and coeditor of Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559–1603. Arthur F. Marotti is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is the author of Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric, also from Cornell, and of John Donne, Coterie Poet and Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England.
<p><i>Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth</i> is a marvelous example of history from below, a highly readable study that demonstrates the value of close, detailed attention to particular manuscripts.</p>
- Graham Hammill, Studies in English Literature
<p>Each section of <i>Ink, Stink Bait</i> begins with analysis and commentary and then moves to the carefully edited and transcribed texts, many of which are followed by textual notes on the history of the text and its relation to other extant sources. The introductions provide fascinating contextual readings of the texts... the juxtaposition of texts and critical approaches recreates the experience of being immersed in a late sixteenth-century provincial community of readers at a time when the idea of the book was still forming in the cultural conscience. Ultimately, <i>Ink, Stink Bait</i> asks us to reconsider what a book is, at least in an historical sense, and likewise serves to expand our assumptions to what a critical text can aspire.</p>
- John Pendergast, Papers on Language and Literature
<p>Their rich and fascinating account both analyzes and contextualizes the private archive of a Yorkshireman born in the reign of Henry VIII and alive until the very end of the sixteenth century... The authors explore all these complexities with skill and learning in an absorbing study that has much to offer manuscript scholars of all periods.</p>
- Julia Boffey, Renaissance Quarterly
<p>In sum, they have made a valuable and thought-provoking contribution to what we know of Elizabethan scribal culture, rendered even more important because so very much of that activity can no longer be recalled or interpreted. Their work is equally valuable for recognizing the potential of that culture in a more balanced view of Early Modern English society in general, and for encouraging the further exploration of contemporary cultural themes and variations.</p>
- Robert Tittler, Shakespeare Studies
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Steven W. May is Adjunct Professor of English at Emory University and Senior Research Fellow, School of English, University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and their Contexts, editor of books including Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, and coeditor of Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559–1603. Arthur F. Marotti is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is the author of Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric, also from Cornell, and of John Donne, Coterie Poet and Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England.