Bel-Vedere Or the Garden of the Muses - An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Early modern commonplacing; 2. The Bodenham miscellanies; 3. The structure of Bel-vedére; 4. Identifying Bel-vedére's sources: from Thomas Park to Charles Crawford; 5. Identifying Bel-vedére's sources: the present edition; 6. The contents of Bel-vedére; 7. Textual introduction; A note on the text; A note on the annotation; List of authors and editions quoted in the annotation; Bel-vedére or The Garden of the Muses; Glossary notes; Textual notes; Appendix 1. Index of authors and texts quoted or adapted in Bel-vedére; Appendix 2. The paratext of the first edition of Bel-vedére (1600); Appendix 3. Origins of the source identifications of the passages in Bel-vedére; Appendix 4. Bel-vedére and England's Parnassus (1600); Index.

About the author

Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (2007), and Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2002). He has edited The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge, 2007), Soliman and Perseda (2015), Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, with M. J. Kidnie (Cambridge, 2004) and Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, with Guillemette Bolens (2011).Devani Singh is a Research Fellow at Université de Genève. Her publications include essays in The Chaucer Review and the Journal of the Early Book Society, and Shakespeare in Geneva (with Lukas Erne, 2018).

Summary

The first annotated edition of Bel-vedére, an influential commonplace book of 1600. This is an important volume for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and scholars of early modern poetry and drama, the history of the book, early modern canon-formation, and the reception history of leading authors of the time.

Product details

• Authors: Lukas (Universite De Geneve) Singh Erne, LUKAS ERNE
• Assisted by: Lukas Erne (Editor), Lukas (Universite De Geneve) Erne (Editor), Erne Lukas (Editor), Devani Singh (Editor), Devani (Universite De Geneve) Singh (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781107190023
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19002-3
• No. of pages: 486
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary reference works, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean