Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Current Trends in the History of Reading 1
4. I. Social Contexts for Writing
5. Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23
6. Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42
7. Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80
8. Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97
9. II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings
10. Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? 119
11. Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library 138
12. Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160
13. Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple 177
14. III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion
15. Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201
16. Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth- Century England 217
17. Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243
18. Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 261
19. Afterword: Records of Culture 282
20. List of Contributors 291
21. Index 295