Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.

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