Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Songes and Sonettes reconsidered, Stephen Hamrick; Printing history and editorial design in the Elizabethan version of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes, Paul A. Marquis; Profit and pleasure? The real economy of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes, Catherine Bates; Tottel’s Troy, Alex Davis; Chaucer’s presence in Songes and Sonettes, Amanda Holton; Songes and Sonettes, 1557, Peter C. Herman; Songes and Sonettes and Shakespeare’s poetry, Tom MacFaul; Cultivation and inhumation: some thoughts on the cultural impact of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes, Seth Lerer; ’Their Gods in verses’: the popular reception of Songes and Sonettes, 1557-1674, Stephen Hamrick; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Stephen Hamrick is Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA. Stephen Hamrick, Paul A. Marquis, Catherine Bates, Alex Davis, Amanda Holton, Peter C. Herman, Tom MacFaul, Seth Lerer.

Reviews

’...a very stimulating volume, which will certainly encourage scholars to return to this ’Book of Riddles’ (131).’ Notes and Queries ’...these essays offer a range of illuminating new views on a work which was something of a publishing phenomenon’ Publishing History '[This book] offers a useful and critically informed survey of the miscellany's position in criticism so far ... [the essays approach] Tottel's Miscellany from many different angles in textual, sociological, intertextual, or historical readings.' Spenser Review