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The Renaissance
English Text Society is an association of scholars who wish to recover
significant English writings of the period 1475-1640, especially those
that have never been published or that have a special significance.
Parallel to the Malone Society, which emphasizes dramatic texts, the
Society emphasizes nondramatic prose or poetry. The following books
were published either by or for the Society.
New members
are welcome. For general inquiries, write to Arthur Kinney, Department
of English, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst 01002 (afkinney@english.umass.edu);
new members should apply to William Gentrup, ACMRS, PO Box 874402, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402 (gentrup@asu.edu).
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SPECIAL PUBLICATION
New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006
Edited by Michael Denbo
A special publication of the Renaissance English Text Society
2008 / 388 + xii pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-393-8 / MR 345 / $48, £40
VOLUME XXXIII
Caelius Secundus Curio his historie of the war of Malta, translated by
Thomas Mainwaringe (1570) Folger ms V.a.508 (formerly ms. add. 588)
Edited by Helen Vella Bonavita (University of Wales, Lampeter)
The successful five-month defense of the island of Malta in 1565 against an Ottoman armada by the
Knights of St. John was a remarkable achievement, celebrated across Christendom by Catholic and
Protestant alike—once they believed the news. In Latin, Italian, French, German, and
finally English, accounts of the siege proliferated—over seventy publications within five years.
Thomas Mainwaringe’s account of the siege in English is a translation from Latin and
among the earliest accounts of the siege to appear in English (1579). In lively, clear, and
sometimes moving prose, Mainwaringe’s story celebrates the bravery and generalship of the
Knights of St. John while deploring the disunity within Christendom that so nearly led to the
island’s defeat and could yet spell disaster elsewhere.
2007 / 274 + x pages / 978-0-86698-387-7 / MR 339 / $34, £21
VOLUME XXXII
Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonettes: The Elizabethan Version
Edited by Paul Marquis (St. Francis Xavier University)
On 5 June 1557, Richard Tottel published a collection of 271 poems composed by noblemen, courtiers, and gentlemen
of the early sixteenth century. Eight weeks later, 31 July, he published a revised and expanded version the
arrangement of which becomes the standard for at least ten further editions in the Elizabethan period. Q2 is the
text most likely read by Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare, though modern readers have
had access only to Q1 in Hyder E. Rollins, Tottel’s Miscellany (1929). Marquis’s edition, based on Q2, thus
provides readers with a copy of a text that has not been readily available since the late sixteenth century.
2007 / 314 + lxx pages / 978-0-86698-386-0 / MR 338 / $48, £29
VOLUME XXXI
William Baspoole The Pilgrime
Edited by Kathryn Walls (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
William Baspoole's The Pilgrime was written in the early 1630s. While it purports to be a faithful rendering of a
fourteenth-century religious allegory (Guilliame de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine), it is in fact
a polemical re-handling, designed to promote Laudian values on the eve of the Civil War. Twenty-nine manuscript illuminations are
reproduced (one in color) in this edition of a text that circulated only in manuscripts—one of which was made for James II's
secretary of Ireland in 1688. The Pilgrime has never before been printed.
2008 / 558 + xxiv pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-385-3 / MR 337 / $70, £43
VOLUME XXX
The Poems of Robert Parry
Edited by G. Blakemore Evans (Harvard University)
Renowned Renaissance scholar and editor G. Blakemore Evans throws new light on the
Welsh gentleman-poet Robert Parry in this edition of his complete poems. The poems, never before gathered
and analyzed together (including one manuscript poem), survive in two volumes of one and two copies,
respectively: Sinetes Passions vppon his fortunes (1597) in the Huntington Library and a chivalric
prose romance, Moderatus, The most delectable and famous Historie of the Blacke Knight (1595) in the Bodleian
and Folger Shakespearean libraries. Evans discovers new information about Parry's genealogy and literary and
social circles and elucidates his word coinages and use of acrostics. As we have come to expect from Professor Evans,
his commentary on the poems is illuminating.
Professor G. Blakemore Evans died on December 23, 2005 at the age of 93.
2005 / 390 pages / ISBN-10: 0-86698-347-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-86698-347-1 / MR 303 / $48, £37
SPECIAL PUBLICATION
New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997–2001
Edited by W. Speed Hill
Topics include editing Renaissance manuscripts, electronic editing and publication, editing early modern
commonplace books, forms and formats of Renaissance historiography, editing early modern women writers, and
forms and formats of early modern historiography.
A special publication of the Renaissance English Text Society
2004 / 210 pages / 86698-313-9 / MR270 / $25, £20
VOLUME XXIX
The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (1645–1666)
Edited by Thomas G. Olsen
Sir John Strangways (1585–1666), a Royalist MP for Dorset, Weymouth, and Melcombe Regis, took up arms
against the Parliamentarian troops of Sir Thomas Fairfax at the siege of Sherborne Castle on 15 August 1645. He was
soon after brought before the House of Commons on charges of high treason and was imprisoned in the Tower of London
until his release on 15 May 1648. During and after his incarceration, Strangways kept a commonplace book in which he
gathered together the conventional wisdom of his age, assembled arguments for his political and moral views, versified
biblical and devotional writings, and recorded his original poems. The manuscript is of particular interest because
of the range of materials Strangways assembled in these pages: expressions of moral philosophy are organized alongside
detailed, careful defenses of the Stuart monarchy, the established church, and the rule of law.
This critical edition of Strangways's manuscript, an important literary and historical document of nearly 300 leaves,
contains a transcription of the entire commonplace book, an account of all textual properties, and a detailed critical
commentary. The edition’s substantial introduction is by far the most extensive biographical and critical assessment
of Strangways to date, though in the last two decades several important studies of seventeenth-century English political
life have made selective uses of the manuscript. This edition will prove valuable for historians and literary critics
generally, and particularly for specialists in the history of parliament, English law, and the seventeenth-century church,
as well scholars of the Civil War and Interregnum periods.
2004 / 326 pages / 86698-318-X / MR275 / $45, £37
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VOLUME XXVIII
Cousins in Love: The Letters of Lydia DuGard, 1665-1672, with a New Edition of The Marriages of Cousin Germans by Samuel DuGard
By Nancy Taylor
This volume presents thirty-two never before published private letters
from Lydia DuGard to her first cousin and future husband, Samuel DuGard.
They tell a touching story about courtship and love and the daily life
and thoughts of this young middle-class English woman and her family
living in the late seventeenth century. The letters illustrate how a
woman constructs a self within the context of certain social codes,
such as accepted women's behavior, family and kin relationships, and
romantic love. Another context for this love is the religious taboo
of first-cousin marriages, forbidden and frowned upon in various ages
of the church and defended by Lydia's clergyman-husband in a new edition
of his treatise The Marriages of Cousin Germans. This volume
will interest students of early modern women, courtship and marriage,
the educated middle class, and religious controversy.
2003 / 223 pages / 86698-311-2 / MR268 / $40, £36
VOLUME XXVII
Philip
Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses
edited by Margaret Jane Kidnie (South Bank University, London)
A
fascinating depicter of early modern culture, Philip Stubbes catalogues
the faults of Elizabethen society as he saw them. He is crucial to discussions
of early modern anti-theatricality, gender and cross-dressing, sexuality,
sumptuary excesses, rural festivals, and the emergent capitalist market.
Heavily revised between 1583 and 1595 and incorporating Stubbes's religious
and political views, the text consists of an old-spelling edition of
the fourth and final version of the Abuses (1595).
2002 / 472 pages / 86698-287-6 / MR245
/ $45, £39
VOLUME XXVI
An
Edition of Luke Shepherd's Satires
edited by Janice Devereux
This edition locates Shepherd within the literary environment of the
religious debates in popular English verse printed in the first two
years of Edward VI's reign. Published anonymously, Shepherd's anti-Catholic
tracts appeared in 1548 and include eight verse satires and one satiric
prose work that have not previously been collected in a single volume.
It collates all known copies of Shepherd's extant works, comprehensively
annotates and glosses the texts, and discusses their literary merit.
Shepherd's witty and readable poems, mainly skeltonic in style, attack
the Mass, the doctrine of transubstantiation, the feast of Corpus Christi,
Catholic clergy and ideology, and clerical celibacy; Bishop Stephen
Gardiner, William Layton, and Dr. Richard Smith are among his individual
targets. This volume will be of interest to scholars of 16th-century
English literature and history and Reformation studies.
2001 / 221 pages / 86698-282-5 / MR240 / $40, £36
VOLUME XXV
The
Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler:
A Diplomatic Edition
edited by Deborah Aldrich-Watson
Honorable
Mention,
Josephine A. Roberts Award for Best Scholarly Edition,
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
". . . it
makes available non-canonical (as well as canonical) texts in a configuration
one does not find either in the surviving printed documents from the
period or in modern editions." — Arthur Marotti, Wayne
State University
2000 / 86698-252-3
/ MR210 / $40, £36
VOLUME XXIII
The
Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh: A Historical
Edition
edited by Michael Rudick
Winner
of the 1999–2000 Distinguished Scholarly Edition Award,
Modern Language Association of America
"This is one
of the most stimulating and original editions of any English Renaissance
poet to have appeared for many years. … besides being so modestly priced,
this edition is essential reading for anyone at all interested in
English Renaissance verse and its transmission and editing." — Peter
Beal, Times Literary Supplement
"It is clear
that Rudick has presented a challenging edition of Ralegh's poetry,
which will continue the valuable debate on the way (or, rather, ways)
in which early modern poetry should be treated." — The Review
of English Studies
2000 / 272 pages
/ 86698-251-5 / MR209 / $35, £30
VOLUME XXII
Thomas
May's The Reigne of King Henry the Second Written in Seauen Bookes
edited by Götz Schmitz
2000 / 368 pages / 86698-237-X / MR195 / $35, £31
VOLUME XXI
The
Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock
edited by Susan Felch
An
approved edition of the Committee on Scholarly Editions,
Modern Language Association of America
"Felch has
thus made available for the first time to a modern audience two substantial
works which not only contribute to the canon of early modern women's
writing, but also, in the oscillation between assurance and anxiety,
offer an articulate and often impassioned commentary on the course
of English Calvinism between 1560 and 1590." — The Review
of English Studies
1999 / 368 pages
/ 86698-227-2 / MR185 / OUT OF PRINT
The
Countess of Montgomery's Urania,
by Lady Mary Wroth
VOLUME XVII
The
First Part
edited by †Josephine A. Roberts
"... an
edition of major bibliographical significance to all editors of
Renaissance printed texts ... this edition underlines the significance
of Wroth's depiction in the Urania of women and their social roles."
— The Review of English Studies
"[This
edition] is enough to situate Wroth among the major writers of the
earlier seventeenth century, and her editor among those who have
most contributed to the vitality of Renaissance studies." —
Seventeenth-Century News
1995 / 944
pages / paperback / 86698-176-4 / MR140 / $40, £34
VOLUME XXIV
The
Second Part
edited by †Josephine A. Roberts; completed by Suzanne
Gossett and Janel Mueller
1999 Scholarly Editions Special Award, The Society for the Study of
Early Modern Women
1999 / 640 pages / 86698-253-1 / MR211 / $60, £53
Special package
price for the First and Second Parts of the Urania: $90, £75
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SPECIAL PUBLICATION
New
Ways of Looking at Old Texts II: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1992-1996
edited by W. Speed Hill
"…excellent papers
here, illuminating accounts of worthwhile projects that touch on central
issues of editorial theory in instructive ways." —
TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies
"Altogether, the collection is a useful tool for the working
editor and has, furthermore, considerable interest for those readers
who are interested in how books make their way onto modern library
shelves, what texts appear in that format, and what new textual models
will become possible and even commonplace in the future." —
Parergon
1998 / 192 pages
/ 86698-230-2 / MR188 / $25, £22
VOLUME XX
The
Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book:
Folger MS V.b.198
edited by Jean Klene, C.S.C.
1997
Josephine A. Roberts Distinguished Edition Award
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
"This meticulously
edited text of a fascinating Renaissance commonplace book should be
of ... permanent importance to any student of Southwell's works, life,
and times. It is, quite simply, a job so well done that it will probably
prove irreplaceable." — Sixteenth Century Journal
"... now
it is only a matter of time before at least some of Lady Ann Southwell's
poetry will make its way into Renaissance anthologies. This edition
will provide a sound basis for that."
— Bulletin codicologique
1997 / 256 pages
/ illus. / 86698-187-X / MR147 / $30, £26 $20, £18
VOLUME XIX
An
Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions
edited by Sidney Gottlieb
"A real
treasure . . . a beautifully bound, generously laid out, and carefully
researched volume. The notes are valuable [and] will help teachers
looking for ways to integrate Collins into the curriculum." —
Seventeenth Century News
1996 / 160 pages
/ 86698-202-7 / MR161 / $20, £18 $15,
£13
VOLUME XVIII
Richard
Beacon: Solon His Follie
edited by Clare Carroll and Vincent Carey
"... with an introduction
and notes displaying exemplary scholarship, this edition of Beacon's
work, the first since its original appearance, promises to expose
to a new readership a text that sheds light on both the sixteenth-century
debate over how to colonize Ireland and the more recent historiographical
debate over how to interpret the texts that record this controversy. ... This
excellent edition ... is a crucial contribution to the formation of
an ideology of colonialism." — Irish Studies Review
1996 / 216 pages
/ 86698-194-2 / MR154 / $26, £23
VOLUME XVI
George
Herbert: The Temple: A Diplomatic
Edition of the Bodleian Manuscript
edited by Mario A. Di Cesare
Awarded
the Emblem of the Committee
on Scholarly Editions of the MLA
"... it by rights
should take primacy of place among all prior editions of The Temple
as the text to quote." — George Herbert Journal
1995 / 544 pages
/ illus. / 86698-038-5 / MR54 / $36, £31 $18, £16
SPECIAL PUBLICATION
New
Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers
of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985-1991
edited by W. Speed Hill
"Deserves
the attention of would-be and active editors [and] graduate students
... to inform them of the wide range of editing that exists in the
field, and its methodological and theoretical variety." — Bibliographical
Society of America
Topics include
the theory and practice of transcription, editing women writers, New
Historicism and editing, and editing manuscript poetical miscellanies.
A special publication of the Renaissance English Text Society
1993 / 320 pages / 86698-153-5 / MR107 / $25, £22
$13, £12
VOLUME XV
The
Nondramatic Works of John Ford
edited by L. E. Stock, Gilles D. Monsarrat, Judith M.
Kennedy, & Dennis Danielson
1991 / 480 pages / 86698-097-0 / MR85 / OUT OF PRINT
VOLUME XIV
The
Vocacyon of Johan Bale
edited by Peter Happé & John N. King
"For all students
of Tudor England. The diplomatic rendering of the text is of the highest
standards." — Moreana
Autobiographical
account of Bale's appointment as bishop of Ossory in Ireland.
1990 / 160 pages / 86698-079-2 / MR70 / $24, £21
$8, £7
VOLUME XIII
Thomas
Moffet, The Silkewormes and Their Flies:
A Facsimile (1599)
edited by Victor Houliston
Presents the first English georgic (1599) on the methods and rewards
of sericulture, by Elizabethan physician and entomologist Thomas Moffet.
1989 / 144 pages / 86698-040-7 / MR56 / $22, £19 $7,
£7
VOLUME IX
George
Cavendish, Metrical Visions
edited by A. S. G. Edwards
1980 / 256 pages / 87249-391-1 / MRET9 / $25 £22 $5,
£5
VOLUMES VII-VIII
R.
I., The Most Pleasant History of Tom a Lincolne
edited by Richard Hirsch
1978 / 144 pages / 87249-358-X / MRET7 / $25, £22
$5, £5
VOLUME IV
Thomas
Rogers, Leicester's Ghost
edited by Franklin B. Williams, Jr.
1972 / 120 pages / 72372-022-6 / MRET4 / $25, £22
$5, £5
VOLUME III
Erasmus,
Funus & The Epicure
edited by Robert A. Allen
1969 / 120 pages / 226-21483-4 / MRET3 / $25, £22
$5, £5
VOLUME II
Thomas
Watson's Latin Amyntas (1585) and Abraham Fraunce's Translation of The
Lamentations of Amyntas (1587)
edited by Franklin M. Dickey & W. F. Staton, Jr.
1967 / 120 pages / MRET2 / $25, £22
$5, £5
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