Recent scholarship has done much to restore the reputation of John Benson, who published the 1640 Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-Speare. Gent., a readable but revised collection of Shakespeare’s shorter poems. Initially disparaged by Edmond Malone, a handful of Malone’s contemporaries, and many nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars, Benson has been more recently contextualized by Sasha Roberts, Cathy Shrank, Megan Heffernan, and Jean-Christophe Mayer, who have situated Benson’s approaches alongside the editorial practices used by Richard Tottel, John Marriot, and other trendsetting stationers of early modern England.1¹ These scholars have provided essential background for Benson’s methods and have considered the most marketable features of his edition in relation to contemporaneous printing practices. In this essay, I consider Benson’s methods in light of the well-established overlap between print and manuscript cultures of early modern England. Benson’s familiarity with contemporaneous textual practices in print and manuscript reveals that early modern manuscript techniques played a far greater role in the publishing traditions of mid-seventeenth-century England than has previously been thought. Recognizing the parallel treatments of Shakespeare’s poems in early manuscripts and in Benson’s edition allows modern scholars both to reevaluate the extent to which manuscript practices influenced printing techniques in the decades after Tottel, Jonson, and Donne, and to consider more fully the ways in which this connection benefits other studies of early modern readership.

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约翰·本森诗歌编辑实践的手稿先例：由威尔撰写。莎士比亚。绅士

最近的奖学金为恢复出版了 1640 年诗歌：威尔写的约翰·本森的声誉做出了很大贡献。莎士比亚。绅士。，一本可读但经过修订的莎士比亚短诗集。最初被埃德蒙·马龙、少数马龙同时代的人以及许多 19 世纪和 20 世纪的学者贬低，本森最近被萨莎·罗伯茨、凯茜·舒兰克、梅根·赫弗南和让-克里斯托夫·梅耶置身于背景中，他们将本森的方法放在一起理查德·托特尔 (Richard Tottel)、约翰·马里奥特 (John Marriot) 和其他早期现代英格兰引领潮流的文具师使用的编辑实践。^{1 1}这些学者为 Benson 的方法提供了必要的背景，并考虑了他的版本与同时代印刷实践相关的最适销对路的特征。在这篇文章中，我根据早期现代英国印刷文化和手稿文化之间已经确立的重叠来考虑本森的方法。本森对印刷和手稿中同时代的文本实践的熟悉表明，早期现代手稿技术在 17 世纪中叶英国的出版传统中发挥的作用比以前认为的要大得多。认识到莎士比亚诗歌在早期手稿和本森版本中的平行处理，使现代学者都能够重新评估在托特尔、琼森和多恩之后的几十年里，手稿实践对印刷技术的影响程度，