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Overview
"The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between the world of printed untruth and private, handwritten, truth in early modern England. Gerard Kilroy traces the circulation of manuscripts connected with Campion to reveal a network that not only stretched from the Court to Warwickshire and East Anglia but also crossed the confessional boundaries. Kilroy shows that in this intricate web Sir John Harington was a key figure, using his disguise as a wit to conceal a lifelong dedication to Campion's memory. Sir Thomas Tresham is shown as expressing his devotion to Campion both in his coded buildings and in a previously unpublished manuscript, Bodleian MS Eng. th. b. 1-2, whose theological and cultural riches are here fully explored." This book provides starting new views about Campion's literary, historical and cultural impact in early modern England. The great strength of this study is its exploitation of archival manuscript sources, offering the first printed text and translation of Campion's Virgilian epic, a fully collated text of 'Why doe I use my paper, ynke and pen' and Harington's four decades of theological epigrams, printed for the first time in the order he so carefully designed.Synopsis
Kilroy (English, King Edward's School, Bath, England) discusses the transmission of private handwritten texts related to Campion (1540-81) after his death. He reveals a network that stretched from the Court to Warwickshire and East Anglia and crossed the confessional boundaries of Catholic and Protestant. John Harrington and Thomas Tresham emerge as central figures in the effort to keep Campion's memory alive. Included is the first printed text and translation of his Virgilian epic Why Doe I Use My Paper, Ynke and Pen. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR