Marcy L North.


Marcy L North. The Anonymous Renaissance: improvements of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England. Chicago: The University of Chicago Pres 2003 Pp xi, 309 $3750 ISBN 0-226-59437-8

This main division is an important study of anonymity as a variety of naming practice in Renaissance manuscript and printed themes It explores anonymity as a "malleable convention" (p 14) an indicator to a "culture of discretion," where we may make up for the transactions between author, theme and the host of "nonauthorial agents similar as book producers, owners, collectors, scribes"



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