Current trends in the history of reading / Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer -- Plays into print: Shakespeare to his earliest readers / David Scott Kastan -- Books and scrolls: navigating the Bible / Peter Stallybrass -- Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of melancholy and the failure of encyclopedic form / Christopher Grose -- Approaches to Presbyterian print culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as source and text / Ann Hughes -- What did Renaissance readers write in their books? / William H. Sherman -- The countess of Bridgewater's London library / Heidi Brayman Hackel -- Lego Ego: reading seventeenth-century books of epigrams / Randall Ingram -- Devotion bound: a social history of The temple / Kathleen Lynch -- Preserving the ephemeral: reading, collecting, and the pamphlet culture of seventeenth-century England / Michael Mendle -- Licensing readers, licensing authorities in seventeenth-century England / Sabrina A. Baron and Licensing metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the debate over conscience / Lana Cable -- John Dryden's angry readers / Anna Battigelli -- Afterword: records of culture / Stephen Orgel