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ed  To take an example from later in the century, a Restoration reader gathered together eight separately printed plays of James Shirley in a single volume, adding a rudimentary manuscript table of contents on the front flyleaf. However modest this book may seem in comparison to Jonson’s, the compiler has articulated a similar sense of the dramatist’s literary authority by consti- tuting a new whole.  has articulated a similar sense of the dramatist’s literary authority by consti-

Figure 27 ed To take an example from later in the century, a Restoration reader gathered together eight separately printed plays of James Shirley in a single volume, adding a rudimentary manuscript table of contents on the front flyleaf. However modest this book may seem in comparison to Jonson’s, the compiler has articulated a similar sense of the dramatist’s literary authority by consti- tuting a new whole. has articulated a similar sense of the dramatist’s literary authority by consti-