Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stanford University's Cavendish manuscript : Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton / Elaine Treharne -- Texts presented to Elizabeth I on the university progresses / Sarah Knight -- Analysing a private library, with a shelf-list attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 / William Poole -- Young Milton in his letters / John K. Hale -- The itinerant sibling : Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk / Edward Jones -- Milton, the attentive Mr Skinner, and the acts and discourses of friendship / Cedric C. Brown -- Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 / Neil Harris -- Tyranny and tragicomedy in Milton's reading of The tempest / Karen L. Edwards -- The earliest Miltonists : Patrick Hume and John Toland / Thomas N. Corns -- The ghost of rhetoric : Milton's logic and the Renaissance trivium / Jameela Lares -- Misprinting Bartholomew Fair : Jonson and the absolute knave / John Creaser -- Reliquiae Baxterianae and the shaping of the seventeenth century / N.H. Keeble -- Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 / Martin Dzelzainis -- Did Milton read Selden? / Sharon Achinstein -- Hands on / Neil Forsyth -- Shakespeare with a difference : dismembering and remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus / Pascale Aebischer -- By ferry, foot, and fate : a tour in the Hebrides / Andrew McNeillie.

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