Title page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Manuscript Studies -- Chapter 1: Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton -- Stanford University Libraries MS M0385 CB: description and textual history -- On good and bad rulership -- Adaptive reuse -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1.1 The Justification for English Intervention in the Dutch Revolt12 -- Chapter 2: Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses -- References -- Chapter 3: Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 -- I -- II -- III -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4: Young Milton in His Letters -- Contexts -- Milton's starting point: Imitatio in Letter I to Thomas Young -- Multilingualism 1: letters about poems -- Multilingualism 2: Greek -- Letters in verse -- Letters of the Italian journey, 1638-39 -- The Trinity Manuscript letter -- Draft One: Trinity Manuscript, page 6 -- Draft Two: Trinity Manuscript, page 7 -- Diagnosis -- In conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk -- London and Berkshire parish records and others from the National Archives -- Ipswich parish and hearth tax records -- References -- Appendix 5.1 A Christopher Milton (CM) Chronology in Ipswich -- Chapter 6: Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship -- Some contexts -- Special acts and recognitions -- Ireland -- The discourse of the 'Life' -- Afterword -- References -- Part II: Printed Books -- Chapter 7: Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8: Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest -- References -- Chapter 9: The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland.

References -- Chapter 10: The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium -- References -- Part III: Production, Dissemination, Appropriation -- Chapter 11: Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' -- References -- Chapter 12: Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century -- References -- Chapter 13: Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 14: Did Milton Read Selden? -- References -- Chapter 15: Hands On -- Mirror Neurones -- Caravaggio -- Pointing Hands -- The Reading Hand -- Anatomy -- Claude Verdan -- John Donne -- Milton -- It's Alive! -- References -- Chapter 16: Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus -- Acknowledgements -- References -- By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides -- Index -- End User License Agreement.