Elizabethan publishing and the makings of literary culture /Kirk Melnikoff.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction; Book-Trade Publishing; Collaborations, Obligations; The Rise of the Publishing Bookseller; Literary Makings; 1 Geldings, "prettie inuentions," and "plaine knauery": Elizabethan Book-Trade Publishing Practices; Acquiring; Compiling; Reissuing; Altering; Translating; Specializing; 2 Thomas Hacket, Translation, and the Wonders of the New World Travel Narrative; The Career of Thomas Hacket; Travelling in the Bookstalls; Moving Travel Literature

3 Richard Smith's Browsables: A Hundreth Sundry Flowers (1573), The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577), and Diana (1592, 1594?)The Career of Richard Smith; A Hundreth Sundry Flowers (1573); The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577); Diana (1592, 1594?); 4 Flasket and Linley's The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage (1594): Reissuing the Elizabethan Epyllion; Publishing at the Black Bear; Reissuing Ovid; 5 Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism; Vending the Republic; Speculating with Hamlet (1603); Notes; Works Consulted; Index

<P>Outlining the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, and reissuing, <I>Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture</I> considers links between the book trade and the literary culture of Elizabethan England. </P>

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