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Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context

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Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context book

Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context

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Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context book

Edited ByStephen Hamrick
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 24 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550800
Pages 228 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315550800
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Hamrick, S. (Ed.). (2013). Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550800

Though printer Richard Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compiliation has long been ignored or misundertood by scholars of early modern English culture. Embracing a broad range of critical and historical perspectives, the eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the many ways that consumers read and understood Songes and Sonettes as an anthology over the course of the early modern period. Copied by a monarch, set to music, sung, carried overseas, studied, appropriated, rejected, edited by consumers, transferred to manuscript, and gifted by Shakespeare, this muti-author verse anthology of 280 poems transformed sixteenth-century English language and culture. With at least eleven printings before the end of Elizabeth I’s reign, Tottel’s ground-breaking text greatly influenced the poetic publications that followed, including individual and multi-author miscellanies. Contributors to this essay collection explore how, in addition to offering a radically new kind of English verse, ’Tottel’s Miscellany’ engaged politics, friendship, religion, sexuality, gender, morality and commerce in complex-and at times, contradictory-ways.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction: Songes and Sonettes Reconsidered

ByStephen Hamrick

chapter 1|24 pages

Printing History and Editorial Design in the Elizabethan Version of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes

ByPaul A. Marquis

chapter 2|26 pages

Profit and Pleasure? The Real Economy of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes

ByCatherine Bates

chapter 3|24 pages

Tottel’s Troy

ByAlex Davis

chapter 4|24 pages

Chaucer’s Presence in Songes and Sonettes

ByAmanda Holton

chapter 5|20 pages

Songes and Sonettes, 1557

ByPeter C. Herman

chapter 6|16 pages

Songes and Sonnettes and Shakespeare’s Poetry

chapter 7|16 pages

Cultivation and Inhumation: Some Thoughts on the Cultural Impact of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes

BySeth Lerer

chapter 8|38 pages

“Their Gods in Verses”: The Popular Reception of Songes and Sonettes 1557–1674

ByStephen Hamrick
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