Book Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford : The Quiney Connections (Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture)

Blaine, Marlin E./ Orlin, Lena Cowen/ Nelson, Alan H.

The Arden Shakespeare（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350558526

Full Description

The recent discovery of two Latin books that once belonged to the Quiney family of Stratford-upon-Avon expands our understanding of Shakespeare's grammar school education and of the social, material, and learned networks that operated in his hometown. One of these books, the Apophthegmata of Erasmus, belonged to Shakespeare's friend and neighbour, Richard Quiney, while the other, a commentary on Aristotelian logic, was owned by a different Richard Quiney, who was Shakespeare's grandson.

Building from a simple account of these findings, Book Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford: The Quiney Connections sheds new light on the use of Latin in the market town that produced the world's most famous playwright. The story it tells weaves together analysis of letters, sermons, wills, public monuments and other printed books owned by local residents. Complementing these cultural explorations, biographical studies of Quiney family members and influential clergymen and teachers in Stratford evoke the impact of this learned culture on the lived experience of individual people. This study breaks new ground in our understanding of the rich educational environment that would enliven the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Sources and Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Quiney Family Names and Dates

Quiney Family Tree

Introduction, Marlin E. Blaine

Part 1 The Quiney Apophthegmata and Commentarius analyticus

1 Two Quiney Books and Their Owners
2 What are Apophthegms, and What is Erasmus's Apophthegmata?
3 Inscriptions and Annotations in the Quiney Apophthegmata
4 Biographies of the Book
5 The Quiney Copy of Giulio Pace's Commentary on Porphyry and Aristotle

Part 2 Latin Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford

6 Latin Culture in Early Modern Stratford
7 John Brownswerd's Poetry
8 Richard Quiney 2's Letter to His Father

Part 3 Books in Shakespeare's Stratford

9 Book Cultures of Stratford
10 John Bretchgirdle and His Books
11 John Marshall and His Books

Part 4 The Quineys of Stratford

12 Adrian Quiney 1 (d. 1607)
13 Richard Quiney 1 (d. 1602)
14 Adrian Quiney 2 (1586-1617)
15 Richard Quiney 2 (1587-1656)
16 Thomas Quiney 1 (1589????) and his son Richard Quiney 3, 1618?39
17 George Quiney (1600-1624)
18 The End of the Stratford Quineys

Afterword, Lena Cowen Orlin and Marlin E. Blaine