To the suggestions already made, I would add the following as
introductions to the complicated publishing history of S&S, and to S&S
as a miscellaneous printed verse collection:
-- Paul Marquis's article "Politics and Print: The Curious Revisions to
Tottel's Songes and Sonettes" in Studies in Philology 97:2 (Spring 2000)
145-164.
-- Marquis also makes his case for paying attention to these alterations
in his edition: Richard Tottel’s Songes and sonettes : the Elizabethan
version, RETS v. 32, 2007.
-- Going back a bit, there's always Hyder Edward Rollins's introductory
material in vol. II, including section VIII on who might have edited
S&S, and sections IX and X on Style and Influence respectively. Rollins
is particularly good for introducing S&S as the foundational English
printed verse miscellany and how it compares to other Elizabethan
printed verse miscellanies. He edited a lot of them. [H.E. Rollins,
Tottel's Miscellany (1557-1587), Harvard UP, 1966, 2 vol.]
Matt Zarnowiecki
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