The Musical Patronage of Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612)

Hulse, Lynn

doi:10.1093/jrma/116.1.24

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“…44 Evidence of this musical engagement also comes from the library catalogue drawn up for his residence, Salisbury House, which includes "Diverse Bookes of musicke and songes," and from extant accounts that refer to "three great violl books with gilt Covers." Unlike such records, the books and music dedicated to Cecil during his lifetime do not offer certainty about his habits of musical patronage, but they can nonetheless indicate the practical gains anticipated-and achieved-by those who sought his favor.…”

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“In his old dress”: Packaging Thomas Speght's Chaucer for Renaissance Readers

Singh¹

2016

The Chaucer Review

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This article subjects Thomas Speght's Chaucer editions (1598; 1602) to a consideration of how these books conceive, invite, and influence their readership. Studying the highly wrought forms of the dedicatory epistle to Sir Robert Cecil, the prefatory letter by Francis Beaumont, and the address "To the Readers," it argues that these paratexts warrant closer attention for their treatment of the entangled relationships between editor, patron, and reader. Where prior work has suggested that Speght's audience for the editions was a socially horizontal group and that he only haltingly sought wider publication, this article suggests that the preliminaries perform a multivocal role, poised to readily receive a diffuse readership of both familiar and newer consumers.Pre-copyedited version of the article published in The Chaucer Review 51.4 (2016): 478-502.

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