Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Book-Trade Publishing -- Collaborations, Obligations -- The Rise of the Publishing Bookseller -- Literary Makings -- 1 Geldings, "prettie inuentions," and "plaine knauery": Elizabethan Book-Trade Publishing Practices -- Acquiring -- Compiling -- Reissuing -- Altering -- Translating -- Specializing -- 2 Thomas Hacket, Translation, and the Wonders of the New World Travel Narrative -- The Career of Thomas Hacket -- Travelling in the Bookstalls -- Moving Travel Literature -- 3 Richard Smith's Browsables: A Hundreth Sundry Flowers (1573), The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577), and Diana (1592, 1594?) -- The Career of Richard Smith -- A Hundreth Sundry Flowers (1573) -- The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577) -- Diana (1592, 1594?) -- 4 Flasket and Linley's The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage (1594): Reissuing the Elizabethan Epyllion -- Publishing at the Black Bear -- Reissuing Ovid -- 5 Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism -- Vending the Republic -- Speculating with Hamlet (1603) -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index.

Outlining the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, and reissuing, Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Cultureconsiders links between the book trade and the literary culture of Elizabethan England.

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