Cover -- Contents -- Current Trends in the History of Reading -- I. Social Contexts for Writing -- Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers -- Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible -- Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form -- Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text -- II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings -- Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? -- Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library -- Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams -- Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple -- III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion -- Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience -- Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers -- Afterword: Records of Culture -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.