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Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)

Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses By Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)

Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses by Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)

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The first annotated edition of Bel-vedere, 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.

Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses Summary

Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses: An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book by Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)

Bel-vedere; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations arranged under topical headings. The book first appeared in 1600 and a second edition was published in 1610. It is of exceptional importance for the early historical reception of early modern authors such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe (whose verse it includes); for the late Elizabethan practice of commonplacing; for the rising status of English literature (including dramatic literature); and for early modern English canon formation. Until now the book has never been properly edited. This edition provides the first full analysis of the contents of Bel-vedere, presenting the text for today's readers and filling an important gap in the study of early modern English literature.

Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses Reviews

'This meticulously edited volume, which has a splendidly substantial introduction, provides us with a window into late Elizabethan culture and its role in establishing the tradition of English literature.' Andrew Hadfield, The Times Literary Supplement
'Erne and Singh have done a wonderful job editing Bel-vedere, an important commonplace book originally published in 1600 Their introduction is informative, the attributions of authorship for quotations are established through well-defined research in respected sources, and the appendixes aid the reader in the use and understanding of the book. This is an excellent and delightful scholarly work.' J. D. Sharpe, Choice
'[Erne and Singh's] edition is an exemplary scholarly achievement in every way this volume is a major contribution to Elizabethan literary history, beautifully produced by Cambridge University Press.' Brian Vickers, The Review of English Studies
'this edition is an exemplary scholarly achievement in every way.' Brian Vickers, The Review of English Studies

About Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)

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 Universite de Geneve. Her publications include essays in The Chaucer Review and the Journal of the Early Book Society, and Shakespeare in Geneva (with Lukas Erne, 2018).

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9781107190023
9781107190023
1107190029
Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses: An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book by Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)
Lukas Erne (Universite de Geneve)
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Cambridge University Press
2020-07-09
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