Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription
"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...
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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
Introduction : between the lines11Darkness within : letters from prison132Edmund Campion : 'sweetly in verse'393'Paper, ynke and pen' : a literary Memoria594Sir John Harington : 'Wise pretender of foolery'895Within these walls : the interior life of Sir Thomas Tresham121Transcription IEdmund Campion's virgilian epic149Transcription IIWhy doe I use my paper, ynke and pen'195Transcription IIIFour decades : 'all my ydle epigrams'209
