Notes and Queries articles from December 1993

Notes and Queries archives from December 1993

The Tanner Bede: The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Oxford Bodleian Library Tanner 10 Together with the Mediaeval Binding Leaves Oxford Bodleian Library 10 and the Domitian Extracts London British Library Cotton Domitian A. ix Fol. 11.
December 1, 1993... THE latest volume in the series Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, vol. XXIV, published in 1992 by Rosenkilde and Bagger, Copenhagen, is The Tanner Bede -- The Old English Versioa of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Oxford Bodleian Library...

Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints.
December 1, 1993... THREE FIGHTING SAINTS is the subtitle of Marie Nelson's modest editioa of the Old English poems Judith, Juliana, and Elene [pp. vii + 209. American University Studies, Series IV English Language and Literature, vol. 135. New York, San...

The Aldhelm gloss 'Constantina: demera (ClGl 1).
December 1, 1993... COTTON CLEOPATRA A. iii, a fair copy of several distinct glossaries arranged in two columas per page, with the Old English interpretatioas above the Latin lemmata, was writtea in the middle of the tenth ceatury, presumably at St Augustine's,...

Not St Dunstan's book? (Bodleian Manuscript Hatton 42)
December 1, 1993... STUBBS's reading(1) of St Dunstan's name on the biading of Bodleiaa MS Hatton 42 has been accepted for more than a ceatury; it is of crucial importance for the history of this major canonlaw collection in its progress from ninth-ceatury...

Wered 'sweet drink' at 'Beowulf' 496: Welsh gwirod 'liquor, drink.'
December 1, 1993... THE etymology of Old English weorod, werod, wered ~sweet', wered ~sweet drink' (known only in Beowulf), weorodiaa ~grow sweet', weorodness ~sweetness' is problematic. Caa we thus show a link with Welsh gwirod aad Cornish gwyras ~liquor,...

Delivering the damned in Old English homilies: an additional note.
December 1, 1993... TWO receat articles have considered in detail the motif of delivering the damned and its currency in Anglo-Saxon England and Medieval Iceland.(2) Both articles refer to the Old English Homily on the Harrowing of Hell and Lat Judgemeat found...

The dancing virgins of 'Hali Meidhad.'
December 1, 1993... AMONG the assorted strategies by means of which the author of Hali Meithhad sought to make virginity alluring, there is one which has apparently escaped notice. This is the question of the nature of the singing and dancing uniquely reserved...

Dafydd ap Gwilym's 'the clock' and foliot 'decoy bird' in 'The Owl and the Nightingale.'
December 1, 1993... THE word foliot ~a type of clock escapemeat consisting of a bar with adjustable weights on the eads' was discussed some years ago by Professor Rigg.(1) His paper quotes Jean Froissart's descriptioa of a clock in his Li Orloge Amoureus,...

Julian of Norwich's knowledge of the life of St John of Beverley.
December 1, 1993... ... and then god brought merely to my mynde David and other in the olde lawe with hym with ouzt nomber; and in the new lawe he brought to my mynde furst Magdaleyne, Peter and Paule, Thomas (of Inde), sent Joha of Beverly, and other also with...

'Tikes' at 'Piers Plowman' B.XIX.37: Welsh taeog 'serf, bondman.'
December 1, 1993... IN the B- and C-texts of Piers Plowman, Langland notes how the Jews ~that were gentil men' suffered degradatioa on rejecting Christ. Now they are low serfs, As wide as the world is, wonyeth ther noon But under tribut and taillage as...

The Flemish analogue to Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale': three notes. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
December 1, 1993... IT is somewhat of aa iroay that the most important -- and amoag students possibly the most popular -- analogue to Chaucer's Miller's Tale is found in one of the least well-knowa of medieval European vernaculars, Middle Dutch. Heile van...

Tracing the ring: Henryson, Fowler, and Chaucer's 'Troilus.' (Robert Henryson, William Fowler and Geoffrey Chaucer)
December 1, 1993... ~This royall ring, set with this rubie reid, Ouhilk Troylus in drowrie to me send, To him agane I leif it quhen I am deid, To mak my cairfull deid wnto him kend.' (Testament of Cresseid, 582-5) Ia his editioa of The Poems...

Problems of documentation in late Middle English variation.
December 1, 1993... VARIOUS problems relating to the structural development of English have been competently described, many, in fact, generatioas ago. However, when looking at the evidence adduced for more global changes it becomes clear that often there is...

Letters from Thomas Percy to Ralph Griffiths.
December 1, 1993... ALTHOUGH most of the Harvard Percy Papers (bMS Eng 893) were purchased at the Percy Sale (Sotheby, 29 April 1884), a few of the 280 folders reached the Houghtoa by a more circuitous route.(1) The most interesting of these is folder 259,...

William Godwin's 'Political Justice.'
December 1, 1993... WILLIAM GODWIN's An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice first appeared, two hundred years ago, in February 1793. Two further editions were published in the author's lifetime, in 1796 and 1798 (these are the dates of their title pages,...

Two letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1812.
December 1, 1993... THESE hitherto unpublished letters from Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth and her father have come to light in the William Salt Library in Stafford.(1) They probably found their way into the Sneyd family archives through the connectioa...

In search of February's solitary strawberry flower. (Dorothy Wordsworth's diary)
December 1, 1993... THE ascription of three entries in Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxden Journal to 3, 4, and 5 May 1798 may indeed be a misdating, but not for the botanical reasons suggested (N&Q, ccxxxvii.160). It does seem reasonable for Dorothy to have remarked...

'Mimic sights': a note on panorama and other indoor displays in Book 7 of 'The Prelude.' (by William Wordsworth)
December 1, 1993... And, next to these, those mimic sights that ape The absolute presence of reality, Expressing as in mirror sea and land, And what earth is, and what she hath to shew -- I do not here allude to subtlest craft, By means...

The supposed letter form of 'Sense and Sensibility.' (by Jane Austen)
December 1, 1993... ONE of the minor curiosities of literature is the stubborn persistence of the story that Sense and Sensibility was originally in the form of letters, though nobody can see who the correspondents could have been. B. C. Southam (Jane Austen's...

'Emma,' the Maple, and Spenser's Garden of Adonis. (Edmund Spencer)
December 1, 1993... JOCELYN HARRIS has suggested, in an article and a book,(1) that Jane Austen drew on Spenser in writing Mansfield Park, especially in the descriptions of Sotherton. She has not, however, noticed two possible Spenserian (and classical)...

'Nina-thoma': an addition to the Coleridge bibliography. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
December 1, 1993... AS Earl Leslie Griggs noted in 1954, Coleridge pubLished tHe Irregular Sonnet, ~Maid of my love! sweet Genevieve!', in the Morning Chronicle, 15 July 1793.(1) This was listed by David V. Erdman in his account of Coleridge variants,(2) but...

Coleridge as godfather: a corrected text of his 14 August 1828 letter to Richard Cattermole. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
December 1, 1993... WHEN the following letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Reverend Richard Cattermole was first published in E. H. Coleridge's Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the recipient was misidentified as George Cattermole.(1) When the letter...

Coleridge's 'great Circulating Library': a footnote. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
December 1, 1993... TOWARDS the end of his life Coleridge recalled how, when he was a schoolboy at Christ's Hospital, a stranger gave him a ticket for ~a great Circulating Library in King's Street, Cheapside'.(1) J. B. Beer has identified this library as that...

Hazlitt, Coleridge, and Edward Young: unidentified quotations. (William Hazlitt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
December 1, 1993... OF the following quotations, which are either glossed as ~unidentified' or, in oae case, given a wrong identification in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, edited by P. P. Howe, two are from Coleridge and two from Edward Young. This...

John Galt's review of 'Howison's Canada' in Blackwood's Magazine. (John Howison)
December 1, 1993... IN his bibliography for Blackwood's Magazine, Alan Strout lists two anonymous articles on North America, which appeared in Blackwood's in 1821. The first is a story, ~The Emigrant's Voyage to Canada', in the November issue, and the second is...

On the lack of a 'cultural lag' in early Canadian literature.
December 1, 1993... IT is too often and too easily assumed that early Canadian literature responds belatedly to outside influences. According to most versions of the ~cultural lag' theory, at least a decade or two elapsed between the publication of the...

Robert Gillies and 'A Winter Night's Dream.'
December 1, 1993... A LONG, rhapsodic poem entitled ~A Winter Night's Dream', signed ~M.M.', appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in October 1825.(1) David Moir, a consultant for the Blackwood's firm, on seeing the poem in manuscript, told William Blackwood that ~I...

W.M. Thackeray: an uncollected Paris letter from 'The Constitutional' (1836-1837).
December 1, 1993... THE following letter from Thackeray's series of foreign correspondence, written for the London newspaper, The Constitutional, between September 1836 and February 1837, was omitted by W. T. Spencer in Mr Thackeray's Writings for ~The National...

Melville and Aratus. (Herman Melville)
December 1, 1993... AMONG the books surviving from Herman Melville's library is a marked and annotated copy of the New Testament and Psalms (1844); and one of the book's most interesting annotations may well be the name ~Aratus', marked in the margin of Acts...

Dickens's megalosaurus. (Charles Dickens)
December 1, 1993... London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and...

'The Great Landslide Case': a Mark Twain debt to a 'musty old book'?
December 1, 1993... MARK TWAIN published three versions of ~The Great Landslide Case'. The first, which appeared in 1863, was a brief newspaper sketch of a mock trial occasioned by a Nevada landslide. The second, published in 1870, was a complete rewriting of...

Mrs Gaskell's reference to Italian punishment in 'Mary Barton.'
December 1, 1993... THE following passage occurs in Mary Barton (1848): I have somewhere read a forcibly described punishment among the Italians, worthy of a Borgia. The supposed or real criminal was shut up in a room, supplied with every...

Additions to the Beetz Tennyson bibliography. (Kirk H. Beetz; Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
December 1, 1993... KIRK H. BEETZ lists a number of pieces from the periodical Poet-Lore in his Tennyson. A Bibliography, 1827-1982 (1984). There are, however, a significant number of omissions. I list them in order of appearance with a minimum of comment or...

George Eliot - 'original MMS bound in.'
December 1, 1993... THE late Gordon S. Haight in a letter to the TLS (15 March 1974) asked for help in his search for an original George Eliot manuscript bound into volumes of The Works of George Eliot, the large paper edition published by Houghton Mifflin in...

A.C. Swinburne's 'Lesbia Brandon' and the death of Edith Swinburne. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
December 1, 1993... IN a famous stanza of ~Dolores' Swinburne wrote: Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. (i. 159)(1) It has been suggested that the...

Stevenson's 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde': Textual Variants. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
December 1, 1993... THE first version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in three days and then, following criticism from his wife, burnt by the author. A second version has survived in part (the ~Notebook Draft'), as...

Thomas Hardy: a borrowing from Schopenhauer. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
December 1, 1993... THE LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY includes a letter written 'about December 1920' by Thomas Hardy to an unidentified person, concerning Hardy's correspondence with Alfred Noyes and Noyes's claim that Hardy held a philosophic stance. Hardy argued, ~I...

Further Hardy debts to Hawthorne. (Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne)
December 1, 1993... IN Notes and Queries, ccxxxvii (June 1992), Charles Swann, in ~A Hardy Debt to Hawthorne?' begins by saying, the only Hawthorne work that Hardy is known to have read is The House of Seven Gables, but there is a scene in Tess of...

Hopkins, Yeats, and the death of Samuel Ferguson. (Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats)
December 1, 1993... ON 7 November 1886 Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote to Coventry Patinore of his first meeting with ~a young Mr. [W.B.] Yeats'.(1) It is apparent from this letter that Hopkins had read some of Yeats's earliest poems (~some striking verses', as...

Wilde's shadow in Conrad's 'The Return.' (Oscar Wilde and Joseph Conrad)
December 1, 1993... PARALLELS have been drawn between A Doll's House and Conrad's story ~The Return',(1) in which a London husband slams the door on his conventionally respectable marriage after his wife tries to leave him for another man (only to return when...

Virginia Woolf: two unpublished letters about 'Night and Day.'
December 1, 1993... TWO draft letters in the Monk's House Papers at the University of Sussex fill in details about the publication history of Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day (1919).(1) The letters also offer evidence of her business acumen in...

Cold comfort for Ethan Frome.
December 1, 1993... COLD COMFORT FARM by Stella Gibbons was published in 1932 and was well received by the reviewers of the time who described it as a parody of the melodramatic and earthy rural novels of the early twentieth century. Soon after its publication,...

Pater and Carlyle in Eliot's 'Little Gidding'? (T.S. Eliot, Walter Pater and Thomas Carlyle)
December 1, 1993... MIGHT T. S. Eliot have re-opened his Pater and (or) his Carlyle while composing Four Quartets?(1) The closing fines of the first movement of ~Little Gidding' hint that he may have done so. Here, the intersection of the timeless moment...

'The Jig of Forslin' and 'East Coker' iii: an addendum to a source.
December 1, 1993... AMONG the various sources Grover Smith cites for the first strophe of ~East Coker' iii is Conrad Aiken's Jig of Forslin (1916).(1) Smith quotes two fines from Forslin, v.7 (~The walls of the city are rolled away...' and ~Darkness descends,...

Samuel Johnson and Beckett's 'Happy Days.' (Samuel Beckett)
December 1, 1993... IN Samuel Beckett's 1961 play Happy days, the central figure, Winnie, is immobilized within a mound of earth. Throughout the first act she is immured up to her waist; in the second act only her head is visible. In these unenviable...

A suggested reference in 'Lord of the Flies.'
December 1, 1993... THE implied references in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954) to R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island (1857) have frequently been noted. In particular, the derivation of the three main characters' names, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, from...

Philip Larkin's 'Aubade' and Barbara Pym's 'A Glass of Blessings.'
December 1, 1993... THE fifth and last stanza of Larkin's poem ~Aubade', completed in 1977, includes the lines: Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring Intricate rented world begins to rouse.(1)...

People and Places in Northern Europe: 500-1600, Essays in Honour of Peter Hayes Sawyer.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxii + 248. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1991. 45.00 [pounds]. FOR almost forty years Peter Sawyer's work has been notable for its range, its thorough scholarship, and for a quality of creative imagination which has...

A Dictionary of English Place-Names.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxxiii + 388. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 12.95 [pounds]. MR DAVID MILLS is well known as an experienced place-name scholar, and the dictionary he has produced is very well thought out. We are given, so we are...

Dictionary of Old English: Fascicle B.
December 1, 1993... Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991-1992. THE reviewer of a newly-published dictionary of the present-day English language or of a new edition of an existing dictionary often begins with a discussion of the coverage...

Notes on Beowulf.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxxvi + 121 (Leeds Texts and Monographs, New Series 12). University of Leeds, 1991. (Obtainable from Peter Meredith and Joyce Hill, General Editors, School of English, The University, Leeds LS2 9JT.) P. J. COSIJN'S Aanteekeningen op...

Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xiv + 4518. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. 28.75 [pounds]. BOTH of these books are intimately concerned with the rhetorical, literary and also the human complexities of love and language, and both extend...

Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xv + 391 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 15). Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 45.00 [pounds]. BOTH of these books are intimately concerned with the rhetorical, literary and also the human...

The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xv + 28 plates + 469. Montreal and Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. 67.50 [pounds]. LINE for line the Old English elegies generate more published comment than any other poems in the surviving corpus....

Saint and Hero: Andreas and Medieval Doctrine.
December 1, 1993... Pp. 133. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1991. 23.50 [pounds]. THE Old English poem Andreas, preserved uniquely in the Vercelli codex, is no longer viewed as an inept imitation of...

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages.
December 1, 1993... Pp. vi + 174. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 1992. 29.50 [pounds]. THE women of the title are Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-97), and Julian of Norwich (1343-post-1416). All three...

Piers Plowman and the Problem of Belief.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 237. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1992. 39.00 [pounds]. THIS book was written on the assumption ~that Langland wrote Piers not in order to teach but to find out', and in particular, ~to find out how he...

Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 272 (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library). London and New York: Longman, 1990. Hardbound 18.95 [pounds]; paperbound 9.95 [pounds]. STUDENTS who embark on Piers Plowman for the first time must often concur heartily with the...

Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Ashmole Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxviii + 164. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992. 39.50 [pounds]. THE Ashmole Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library include relatively many Middle English items. According to the ~Summary List of Contents', a welcome feature of this volume,...

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 654. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. 29.95 [pounds]. THE full title of Dr Duffy's book announces both its range and its emphasis: the second half announces factually the range of the material covered, the...

Current Trends in West Germanic Etymological Lexicography: Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Amsterdam, 12-13 June 1989.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 166. Leiden, New York, Koln: E. J. Brill, 1993. THE proceedings of the symposium have been supplemented by other contributions so as to make it a useful recent survey of the etymological lexicography of West Germanic languages....

Observationes in Willerami Abbatis Francicam Paraphrasin Cantici Canticorum.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxxiv + 357 (Early Studies in Germanic Philology, 1). Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1992. Paperbound Hfl. 120, $70.50. THIS volume inaugurates a welcome -- if rather expensive -- new series of facsimile reprints of milestones in...

Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England, 3 vols.
December 1, 1993... Pp. ix + 453 + 173 + 365. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. (99.50. AT a time when short-termism rules, and frequency of publication sometimes seems to be more important than quality, it is a real pleasure to review Tony Hunt's very...

The Teaching of Grammar in Late Medieval England: An Edition, with Commentary, of Oxford, Lincoln College MS Lat. 130.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxi + 235. East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1992. 19.95[pounds]. AT a time when short-termism rules, and frequency of publication sometimes seems to be more important than quality, it is a real pleasure to review Tony Hunt's very...

The Art of Medieval French Romance.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xvi + 471. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. 51.95 [pounds]. THIS book sets out to identify the differentia specifica of French romance and to reconstruct the processes of its creation on the basis of evidence...

Thomas More: The Search for the Inner Man.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xi + 112. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. 12.95 [pounds]. ROBERT ADAMS's edition of selected works by Erasmus offers new, lively translations of The Praise of Folly and the May 1515 letter to Martin Dorp. Also...

The Praise of Folly and Other Writings.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xi + 341. (Norton Critical Editions). New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1990. Paperbound 5.95 [pounds]. ROBERT ADAMS's edition of selected works by Erasmus offers new, lively translations of The Praise of Folly and the May 1515...

Utopia.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxxv + 137 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Paperbound 4.95 [pounds]. ROBERT ADAMS's edition of selected works by Erasmus...

Culture and History: 1350-1600, Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing.
December 1, 1993... Pp. v + 213. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. 40.00 [pounds]. Subjectivity began for me, In Sixteen Hundred and Three, After Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece, And before...

Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xxii + 367. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1992. 21.95 [pounds]. Subjectivity began for me, In Sixteen Hundred and Three, After Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece, And before the trial of Sir Walter...

Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men About Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xvii + 328. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Hardbound $37.50; paperbound $14.95. JOAN LARSEN KLEIN's selection of texts for her anthology of writings by men about women is particularly well chosen and cogently...

William Lord Herbert of Pembroke: c. 1507-1570, Politique and Patriot.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xix + 186 (Studies in British History, vol. 6). Lewiston and Queenston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. JOAN LARSEN KLEIN's selection of texts for her anthology of writings by men about women is particularly well chosen and cogently...

A Comprehensive Concordance to The Faerie Qveene: 1590.
December 1, 1993... Tokyo: Kenyusha Books, 1990. ACCORDING to the old joke, an actuary is a man who finds accountancy too exciting. A similar relationship might appear to exist between concordance makers and lexicographers. Johnson's harmless drudge (like...

Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainments and the Professional Stage.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xvi + 423 (European Studies in English Literature). Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 45.00 [pounds]. IN recent years, the terms ~carnival' and ~the carnivalesque' have been much...

Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xiii + 287. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 35.00 [pounds]. IN recent years, the terms ~carnival' and ~the carnivalesque' have been much invoked in relation to Elizabethan drama. Often they have appeared as part of a larger theoretical...

Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 256 (Warwick Studies in the European Humanities). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. 45.00 [pounds]. THIS volume is composed of ten studies on the interrelationships between the Italian and English stages in the sixteenth...

The Love Story in Shakespearean Comedy.
December 1, 1993... Pp. ix + 238. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992. $28.00. THIS reader-friendly jargon-free book is pleasant to read and engages the interest. The writer evidently enjoys Shakespeare and seeks to enlarge appreciation --...

Shakespeare's Speaking Properties.
December 1, 1993... Pp. 222. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1991. 28.50 [pounds]. THE title of this book implies a grand claim, which the blurb and the jacket elaborate on: that the props used in...

Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama: The Staging of Nostalgia.
December 1, 1993... Pp. x + 214. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. 42.50 [pounds]. INTERTEXTUALITY, as Richard Hillman points out in his introduction, is not an easy concept to use or define. If one employs the term -- as many academics do -- to...

Shakespeare's Romances as Interrogative Texts: Their Alienation Strategies and Ideology.
December 1, 1993... Sokolova, B., Shakespeare's Romances as Interrogative Texts: Their Alienation Strategies and Ideology. Pp. iv + 162. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. 29.95 [pounds]. INTERTEXTUALITY, as Richard Hillman points...

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama.
December 1, 1993... Pp. xii + 249 (Longman Critical Readers). London and New York: Longman, 1992. Hardbound 22.00 [pounds]; paperbound 9.99 [pounds]. THE question of the audience is one to which New Historicists and Cultural Materialists have paid varying...

The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, vol. 8, The Queen of Corinth, The False One, Four Plays, The Knight of Malta, Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, The Custom of the Country.
December 1, 1993... Pp. vii + 758. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [pounds]90.00. FREDSON BOWERS's entire editing fife was arguably oriented toward a project which never saw the light of day, namely an old-spelling...

Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry.
December 1, 1993... Pp.xii + 275. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1992. 30.00 [pounds]. A. B. CHAMBERS' meticulously detailed study of the influence of church liturgy and its attendant rites upon seventeenth-century English poetry offers...

The Sermons of Henry King: 1592-1669, Bishop of Chichester.
December 1, 1993... Pp. 337. Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Aldershol: Scolar Press, 1992. [pounds]48.50. SINCE his inclusion in Herbert Greerson's Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems (1921) Henry King has enjoyed some reputation...