Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Current Trends in the History of Reading I
• JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER
• I. Social Contexts for Writing
• Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23 - - DAVID SCOTT KASTAN
• Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42
• PETER STALLYBRASS
• Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton’s Anatomy ofMelancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80
• CHRISTOPHER GROSE
• Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards’s Gangraena as Source and Text 97
• ANN HUGHES
• II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings
• Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? II9
• WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
• Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater’s London Library 138
• HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL
• Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160
• RANDALL INGRAM
• Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple I77
• KATHLEEN LYNCH
• III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion
• Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201
• MICHAEL MENDLE
• Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth-
• Century England 217
• SABRINA A. BARON
• Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243
• LANA CABLE
• Chapter 12: John Dryden’s Angry Readers 26x
• ANNA BATTIGELLI
• Afterword: Records of Culture 282
• STEPHEN ORGEL