Beschreibung:
Throughout, the aim is to unpack assumptions about the popular, revealing a literary England in which almanacs and proclamations outweigh sonnets and plays, and authors familiar to us are displaced by names now often forgotten.
Part 1 Methodologies: What is print popularity? A map of the Elizabethan book trade. 'O read me for I am of great antiquity': old books and Elizabethan popularity. 'Rare poems ask rare friends': popularity and collecting in Elizabethan England. Shakespeare's popularity and the origins of the canon. Part 2 The Elizabethan Top Ten: Almanacs and ideas of popularity Print, popularity and the Book of Common Prayer. International news pamphlets. Spenser's popular intertexts. Household manuals. Damask papers. Sermons. The psalm book. Serial publication and romance. Mucedorus.