Аннотация:This essay considers three manuscript commonplace books with extracts from literary works in the vernacular: one by a member of the Sidney circle; one by an anonymous university student or tutor; and one by a country gentleman, Edward Pudsey. With their different types of readers and reading matter, reading methods, and goals of reading, these manuscripts complicate the paradigms of the �??pragmatic�? and �??recreational�? reader and highlight the need to move toward a model of reading that takes account of the multiple material, social, and intellectual contexts that shaped the reception of literature in early modern England.
