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The Oxford Francis Bacon I
Early Writings 1584-1596
Edited by Alan Stewart
with Harriet Knight
1,136 pages
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4 black-and-white plates
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216x138mm
978-0-19-818313-6
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Hardback
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20 September 2012
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- First edition of Bacon's early writings executed to the standards of modern editorial scholarship
- Brings together previously uncollected and unedited writings
- Explores Bacon's relationship with Elizabethan manuscript culture
- Presented with substantial introductions, and full commentaries and glossaries
- Throws new light onto Bacon's activities and later works
This volume belongs to the new critical edition of the complete works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and in accordance with the principles of modern textual scholarship. This volume contains Bacon's earliest known writings, dating from 1584 to 1596, comprising position papers, commentaries on printed works, legal readings and opinions, and discourses of advice, usually written in response to specific events or demands, and circulated in manuscript. Bacon's writings to 1596 generally reflect his professional occupations: legal, political, and parliamentary. They include substantial writings on the
Martin Marprelate controversy of 1588-1589, Roman Catholic attacks on Elizabeth's government (1593); dramatic entertainments put on at Gray's Inn and the court; tracts on important legal cases of the period; notes from his extensive reading; and letters of advice written for and to Bacon's patron, Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex. Despite the 'occasional' nature of these writings, there is clearly visible across them the early signs - 'seeds' as their author would call them-of the philosophy Francis Bacon would later come to write. The writings are presented with substantial introductions, and full commentaries and glossariesReadership: Students and scholars of early modern literature, history, philosophy,
and politics.
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Edited by Alan Stewart, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University and International Director, Centre for Editing Lives And Letters, Queen Mary, London with Harriet Knight, Teacher of English and Philosophy, The Henrietta Barnett School, London and Associate, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, LondonAlan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine, 1998), Philip Sidney (2003) and
James VI and I (2003), and of Shakespeare's Letters (2008).
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"a major scholarly project ... scholars will be grateful for the vast amount of labour it embodies." - Keith Thomas, London Review of Books "thorough and systematic ... The editors' conclusions and educated guesses stand as the result of open inquiry, metholodical research and orientation towards the guiding star of this collection: the editors' impressive familiarity with Bacon's known writings." - John C. Briggs, Times Literary Supplement
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List of Plates
References, Abbreviations and Symbols
INTRODUCTION
THIS EDITION: PRINCIPLES AND CONVENTIONS
THE TEXTS
Letter of advice to the Queen (1584)
A discourse vpon the commission of Bridewell (c.1587)
The misfortunes of Arthur: dumb shows (1588)
Reading on advowsons (1588)
An advertisement touching private censure (c.1589)
An advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England (1589)
A letter of advice to Fulke Greville (c.1589)
On the religious policies of the Queen ('letter to Critoy') (c.1589)
Tribuit or giving that which is due (1591)
Magnanimitie or heroicall vertue (c.1592)
An aduertisement towching seditious writing (c.1593)
Certaine obseruations made vppon a libell (1593)
Epistle to the Reader (1593)
A true report of the detestable treason intended by Doctor Roderigo Lopez (1594)
Argument in Chudleigh's case (1594)
Memorandum on the Queen's safety (1594)
Promus or formularies of elegance (1594-1595)
Orations at Graies Inne revells (1594-1595)
Letters of advice to the earl of Rutland
Essex's device (1595)
First letter of advice to the earl of Essex (1596)
For the earl of Sussex at the tilt (1596)
THE COMMENTARIES
APPENDICES
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index to the Commentary
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