Bel-Vedére or the Garden of the Muses

An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-107-19002-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 882 g

Bel-vedére; 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-vedére, presenting the text for today's readers and filling an important gap in the study of early modern English literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erne, Lukas

Singh, Devani

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Erne, Lukas
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).

Singh, Devani
Devani Singh is a Research Fellow at Université de Genève. Her publications include essays in The Chaucer Review and the Journal of the Early Book Society, and Shakespeare in Geneva (with Lukas Erne, 2018).