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I could hardly write a book like this and not be acutely conscious of the many debts I owe to friends, family members, and colleagues, or mindful of how influential even the most casual conversations can turn out to be. Perhaps I wouldn’t have been drawn to a literary family if my own family hadn’t been so crowded with extraordinary people. For their love, support, and example, I am deeply grateful. My research has taken me to the British Library in London, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, and the Newberry Library in Chicago, and I am grateful to the staff of those libraries for their help. But the book has been principally researched and written within the intellectual community and the libraries of the University of Cambridge, and I owe a great debt to the many teachers, colleagues, friends, and librarians not named below. My first home in Cambridge was Caius College, and much of my early work was done in its marvellous Library, a place where I have had more than my share of serendipity. My longest-standing debt is to my brilliant teachers at Caius, John Casey, Jeremy Prynne (who also ran that Library), and especially Colin Burrow, who went on to be a wise supervisor of my doctoral work. A master’s course had a huge impact on the way I work and the kinds of question I ask. My teachers on the course—especially Marie Axton, Anne Barton, John Kerrigan, and Jeremy Maule—offered a formidable challenge to my ways of thinking; they subsequently became colleagues, and I am deeply grateful for their example and support. The first phase of my research was completed as a Research Fellow at Caius, and I remain profoundly indebted to the Master and Fellows of that College for all they have done for me. A hiatus coincided with a busy few years establishing myself as a lecturer in the Faculty of English and a Fellow at Christ’s College. I am grateful to the academic and administrative staff of both institutions for the support that enabled me to keep my eye on what still had to be done. And the AHRC made completing this book possible with a Research Leave award in 2003. The help of David Colclough, Katrin Ettenhuber, and Hester Lees-Jeffries has been vital. Other friends and colleagues who have shared work, ideas, or good advice, or offered much appreciated support and encouragement are Sylvia Adamson, Richard Axton, Kate Bennett, Joseph Black, Ian Donaldson, Katharine Duncan-Jones, Elizabeth Goldring, Margaret Hannay, David Jays, Noel Kinnamon, Roger Kuin, Mary Ellen Lamb, Raphael Lyne, John Pitcher, Claire Preston, John Rathmell, Matthew Reynolds, Jason Scott-Warren, Victor Skretkowicz, Brian Solts, Tiffany Stern, Robert Stillman, Germaine Warkentin, and Andrew Zurcher. I am grateful to Viscount De L’Isle for permission to consult his manuscripts of the Sidney Psalms and Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory, and to reproduce the portrait of Mary Wroth and her mother discussed in Chapter 9. Material from ‘Sidney’s Interruptions’, Studies in Philology, 98 (2001), 184–204 appears in revised form in Chapters 1 and 3, and a part of ‘Fulke Greville and the Afterlife’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 62 (2000), 203–31 is used in Chapter 7; I am grateful to the editors of these two journals for permission to reprint.

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