Manuscripts and Their Makers in the English Renaissance

Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in this period, Volume 11 includes significant contributions by some of the leading authorities in the field. Contents include: 'Philip Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and that "False Knave" Alexander Dicsone' (Peter Beal); 'A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia' (Henry Woudhuysen); 'The Cultural and Textual Importance of Folger ms V.a.89' (Arthur F. Marotti); 'A Feather from the Black Swan's Wing: Hugh Holland's Owen Tudyr (1601)' (Katherine Duncan-Jones); 'John Mott and The Newe Metamorphosis' (Hilton Kelliher); '"The foule sheet and ye fayr": Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts' (Grace Ioppolo); 'The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens' Translations ofFour Poems,by John Donne, 1630' (Richard Todd); 'The Black Poet of Ashover, Leonard Wheatcroft' (Cedric C. Brown); 'Renaissance Manuscript Anthologies' (Steven W. May); and 'Systemizing Sigla' (Harold Love).Beal, Peter is the author of 'Manuscripts and Their Makers in the English Renaissance' with ISBN 9780712347716 and ISBN 0712347712.