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MANUSCRIPT VERSE COLLECTORS AND THE POLITICS OF ANTI-COURTLY LOVE POETRY This page intentionally left blank Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry JOSHUA ECKHARDT 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork qJoshuaEckhardt2009 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2009 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009921239 TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–955950–3 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Slim This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements Anyone whoworks on early modern English manuscripts owes a great debttothescholarswhohavemadethemnavigable,andtotheinstitu- tionsthatkeepthemavailable.Ispreadoutmythanksfortheirinvalu- able, necessary help throughout the footnotes and endmatter of this book.Yetmygratitudetoanumberofindividualsexceedstheboundsof such bibliographical citations. Achsah Guibbory gave me the distinct advantage of beginning work on this book under the direction of the most encouraging graduate advisor I have ever even heard of, and she continuestooffersupportandadvicewithcharacteristicgrace.Zachary Lesserreadmultipledraftsoftheentiretypescript,eachtimeimproving it with his detailed and incisive comments. Peter Beal and Henry Woudhuysen generously shared their time and expertise over a year’s fellowship in London, effectively providing the finest training in Re- naissance manuscript studies that I can imagine; moreover, they have since offered the direction necessary to get the book into its present form,forwhichIremainimmenselygrateful.AdamSmythandCurtis Perry each showed me how to reconceptualize the book at a crucial stage.BrianVickersalsoofferedtimelyencouragement.AndrewMcRae bravelyextendedaninvitationtohisconferenceonlibelsbasedonlyon a chance meeting at the Huntington, and subsequently published an early incarnation of my third chapter in Huntington Library Quarterly. AniaLoomba andTim Dean read the dissertation version, andhelped put me on track to turn it into a proper book. Dayton Haskin, Lara Crowley,TomCogswell,andCharlotteMorsealsotookonentiredrafts. Alun,together with Carol,Fordhas supportedtheprojectas librarian, manuscriptexpert,neighbor,host, andfriend. SimonHealygaveme a parliamentman’sperspectiveonlibels,andsponsoredajollytriptothe Leicestershire Record Office. Chris and Anne Muskopf routinely pro- vided a home away from home within walking distance of the Houghton; Chris has influenced my intellectual development since before preschool, not least by spending hours reading poetry with me andLaddSuydaminhighschool.Finally,theliteratureeditorsatOUP viii Acknowledgements have forced me to reconsider my disbelief in ideal readers, for they locatedtwoofthem. Two department chairs, Marcel Cornis-Pope and Terry Oggel, gen- erously arranged for me to devote my second year at Virginia Com- monwealth University to writing the book. Marcel also read and commentedonacompletedraft,whileTerryandNickSharpexhibited the understanding that perhaps only bibliographers could provide for thisproject.TheCollegeofHumanitiesandSciencesatVCUsupplied researchtravelfunds,someofthemintheformofa‘careerscholarship enhancement award.’ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Institute ofHistorical Research atthe University of Londonsupported a formative year of dissertation research. The Graduate College of the University of Illinois funded my first whirlwind tour of archives. And theIllinoisProgramforResearchintheHumanitiesgavemethetime, space, and resources to begin work on the project during a graduate fellowship.TheHuntingtonLibraryandUniversityofCaliforniaPress haveallowedmetoreprintarevisedversionof‘‘‘Love-songweeds,and Satyrique thornes’’: Anti-Courtly Love Poems and Somerset Libels,’ Huntington Library Quarterly, 69/1 (2006), 47 66. While these insti- tutions and people have greatly improved the quality of this book, working on manuscripts multiplies the opportunities for error, and anyremainingmistakesarenobody’sfaultbutmine. Mostimportantly,Ithankthepeopleathomewhohaveprovidedthe resources, time, and peace to get an education: first my parents and especiallyrecentlymymom,whoseemstobewatchingSilas,andnow helping with Ira, at every major phase of this book’s completion; and ultimatelySarah,whohasbeensupportingmyworkonadailybasisfor years,anddoingsobytheuncommonmeansavailableonlytoagenuine researcher, a tough critic, a firm believer, an exquisite beauty, and a devoteeofpeaceandmercy. Contents ListofAbbreviationsandConventions x 1. TheLiteraryandPoliticalActivityofManuscript VerseCollectors 1 2. ThePoliticsofCourtlyandAnti-CourtlyLovePoetry intheHandsofCollectors 33 3. ‘Love-songweeds,andSatyriquethornes’: Anti-CourtlyLovePoetryandSomersetLibels 67 4. TheSpanishMatchandtheHistoryofSexuality 93 5. VerseCollectorsandBuckingham’sAssassination 132 Epilogue:RedeployingAnti-CourtlyLovePoetry AgainsttheProtectorate 162 Appendix1:SelectedVerseTexts 173 Appendix2:ManuscriptDescriptions 207 IndexofManuscriptsCited 281 ListofPrintedWorksCited 287 GeneralIndex 301

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MANUSCRIPT VERSE COLLECTORS AND THE POLITICS OF ANTI-COURTLY LOVE POETRY This page intentionally left blank Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry JOSHUA ECKHARDT 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork qJoshuaEckhardt2009 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2009 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009921239 TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–955950–3 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Slim This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements Anyone whoworks on early modern English manuscripts owes a great debttothescholarswhohavemadethemnavigable,andtotheinstitu- tionsthatkeepthemavailable.Ispreadoutmythanksfortheirinvalu- able, necessary help throughout the footnotes and endmatter of this book.Yetmygratitudetoanumberofindividualsexceedstheboundsof such bibliographical citations. Achsah Guibbory gave me the distinct advantage of beginning work on this book under the direction of the most encouraging graduate advisor I have ever even heard of, and she continuestooffersupportandadvicewithcharacteristicgrace.Zachary Lesserreadmultipledraftsoftheentiretypescript,eachtimeimproving it with his detailed and incisive comments. Peter Beal and Henry Woudhuysen generously shared their time and expertise over a year’s fellowship in London, effectively providing the finest training in Re- naissance manuscript studies that I can imagine; moreover, they have since offered the direction necessary to get the book into its present form,forwhichIremainimmenselygrateful.AdamSmythandCurtis Perry each showed me how to reconceptualize the book at a crucial stage.BrianVickersalsoofferedtimelyencouragement.AndrewMcRae bravelyextendedaninvitationtohisconferenceonlibelsbasedonlyon a chance meeting at the Huntington, and subsequently published an early incarnation of my third chapter in Huntington Library Quarterly. AniaLoomba andTim Dean read the dissertation version, andhelped put me on track to turn it into a proper book. Dayton Haskin, Lara Crowley,TomCogswell,andCharlotteMorsealsotookonentiredrafts. Alun,together with Carol,Fordhas supportedtheprojectas librarian, manuscriptexpert,neighbor,host, andfriend. SimonHealygaveme a parliamentman’sperspectiveonlibels,andsponsoredajollytriptothe Leicestershire Record Office. Chris and Anne Muskopf routinely pro- vided a home away from home within walking distance of the Houghton; Chris has influenced my intellectual development since before preschool, not least by spending hours reading poetry with me andLaddSuydaminhighschool.Finally,theliteratureeditorsatOUP viii Acknowledgements have forced me to reconsider my disbelief in ideal readers, for they locatedtwoofthem. Two department chairs, Marcel Cornis-Pope and Terry Oggel, gen- erously arranged for me to devote my second year at Virginia Com- monwealth University to writing the book. Marcel also read and commentedonacompletedraft,whileTerryandNickSharpexhibited the understanding that perhaps only bibliographers could provide for thisproject.TheCollegeofHumanitiesandSciencesatVCUsupplied researchtravelfunds,someofthemintheformofa‘careerscholarship enhancement award.’ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Institute ofHistorical Research atthe University of Londonsupported a formative year of dissertation research. The Graduate College of the University of Illinois funded my first whirlwind tour of archives. And theIllinoisProgramforResearchintheHumanitiesgavemethetime, space, and resources to begin work on the project during a graduate fellowship.TheHuntingtonLibraryandUniversityofCaliforniaPress haveallowedmetoreprintarevisedversionof‘‘‘Love-songweeds,and Satyrique thornes’’: Anti-Courtly Love Poems and Somerset Libels,’ Huntington Library Quarterly, 69/1 (2006), 47 66. While these insti- tutions and people have greatly improved the quality of this book, working on manuscripts multiplies the opportunities for error, and anyremainingmistakesarenobody’sfaultbutmine. Mostimportantly,Ithankthepeopleathomewhohaveprovidedthe resources, time, and peace to get an education: first my parents and especiallyrecentlymymom,whoseemstobewatchingSilas,andnow helping with Ira, at every major phase of this book’s completion; and ultimatelySarah,whohasbeensupportingmyworkonadailybasisfor years,anddoingsobytheuncommonmeansavailableonlytoagenuine researcher, a tough critic, a firm believer, an exquisite beauty, and a devoteeofpeaceandmercy. Contents ListofAbbreviationsandConventions x 1. TheLiteraryandPoliticalActivityofManuscript VerseCollectors 1 2. ThePoliticsofCourtlyandAnti-CourtlyLovePoetry intheHandsofCollectors 33 3. ‘Love-songweeds,andSatyriquethornes’: Anti-CourtlyLovePoetryandSomersetLibels 67 4. TheSpanishMatchandtheHistoryofSexuality 93 5. VerseCollectorsandBuckingham’sAssassination 132 Epilogue:RedeployingAnti-CourtlyLovePoetry AgainsttheProtectorate 162 Appendix1:SelectedVerseTexts 173 Appendix2:ManuscriptDescriptions 207 IndexofManuscriptsCited 281 ListofPrintedWorksCited 287 GeneralIndex 301

Description:
This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual, major authors, and they have m
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