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Jeremy Maule
launched this series of volumes at the second Literature and History
conference at Reading in July 1995. His aim was to create a press that
would print unpublished early modern texts that had hitherto remained
in manuscript. Aside from the requirement that they be written between
1500 to 1700, the only other stipulation was that the texts published
should "interest the general editor." Their subjects — rhetoric, women's
writing, music, dance, scholarship, and religion — represent the range
and variety of writing in the English Renaissance. Co-published volumes
are available in North America from MRTS through Cornell University
Press Services (see order form), outside North America from Bennett
and Kerr Books, Milhill Warhouse, Church Road, Steventon, Abingdon,
Oxon., England, OX13 6SW (ph: 44 0 1235 820604, fax: 44 0 1235 821047,
email: Bennet_Kerr@compuserve.com).
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Elizabeth
Cary, Lady Falkland, Life and Letters
edited by Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Heather Wolfe's edition of the Life and Letters is the first publication
of the letters and supersedes previous editions of the Life of one of
the most important woman writers of seventeenth-century England. The
Life of Lady Falkland was written in an English Benedictine community
of women in Cambrai. The edition offers several fresh perspectives on
it, providing, for the first time, a textual history of the Life and
a study of its origins in the community. The editor's close study of
the manuscript and its conventions has enabled her to date the composition
of the Life and to identify the author and her annotators. Texts of
a large number of official and family letters concerning Lady Falkland's
conversion to Catholicism are also included in the edition. Detailed
cross-reference between the letters and the life allows the reader a
critical perspective on the biographer's interests and motivations,
and it enables full participation in the enterprise of distilling fact
from fiction.
2001 / 550 pages / paper / 0-86698-272-8 / MR230 / OUT OF PRINT
Barthélemy
de Montagut, Louange de la Dance
translated and edited by Barbara Ravelhofer (St. John's
College, Cambridge)
If we know little about dances in England before the Civil War, even
less information has been handed down about their composers. Barthélemy
de Montagut was a French dancer who successfully sought patronage in
aristocratic English circles. While he was establishing himself as a
choreographer, entertainer, and stage manager, his countryman, François
de Lauze, sought access to Buckingham to communicate his views on dancing.
The resulting manual, the Apologie de la Danse, is one of the famous
dance sources of this period. Montagut took liberties with an early
draft of this treatise and dedicated it to Buckingham as his own composition;
in an attempt to establish his priority, Lauze then published his own
version in 1623. Montagut's text complements the better-known version,
with which it is collated in the present edition. The introduction includes
both an account of the piracy affair and a survey of seventeenth-century
dancing styles against the backdrop of courtly entertainment culture
of the Stuart period.
2000 / 200 pages / paper / 1-903092-02-7; 0-86698-266-3/ MR225 /
$25, £15
A
Reformation Rhetoric: Thomas Swynnerton's Tropes and Figures of Scripture
edited by Richard Rex (Queens' College, Cambridge)
1999 / 200 pages / paper / 1-903092-00-0 / MRX2 / $25, £15
Meric
Casaubon, Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on
the Formation of the General Scholar
edited by Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
1999 / 271 pages / paper / 1-903092-01-9 / MRX3 / $25, £15
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