Notes and Queries articles from March 1994

Notes and Queries archives from March 1994

Germania Latina.
March 1, 1994... THE publication of a new series in these financially hard times is a bold venture. It arose out of a conference held at Groningen in 1989, and the University of Groningen deserves our thanks for Germania Latina, i (1992), edited by Richard...

The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms.
March 1, 1994... CHRIS BALDICK'S The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms [Pp. x + 246. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 12.95[pounds]] is an exemplary performance, which I have consulted again and again -- so much so that I all but forgot...

Alcuin's use of Augustine and Jerome: a source and a recollection identified.
March 1, 1994... As if the sheer size of Augustine's enormous literary output were not enough to daunt source-seekers, confusion in establishing the genre of some of his works can further complicate identifications. Such is the case with Alcuin's statements...

The retoucher in MSS Junius 85 and 86. (Oxford's Bodleian Library's manuscript includes Blickling and Vercelli texts of Old English Life of St Martin)
March 1, 1994... BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Oxford, MSS Junius 85 and 86, acomposite of two volumes, containing as its last item a variant of the Blickling and Vercelli texts of the Old English Life of St Martin, have been ~retouched on most pages'(1) in black ink by...

A further Old English gloss in Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat. 8846
March 1, 1994... IN 1965, Henry Hargreaves and Cecily Clark reported the existence of some sporadic glosses in a deluxe psalter written in the late twelfth century, which is often described as the last English copy of the Utrecht Psalter.(1) They found and...

Eight notes on 'Havelok.' (Old English book)
March 1, 1994... 1. 64. Was non so bold, lond to rome, pat durste upon his bringhe Hunger ne here, wicke pinghe. These lines occur in a lengthy passage in praise of King Apelwold. The verb rome is probably the reflex of OE...

'Of' with verbs of killing in 'The Destruction of Troy.'
March 1, 1994... For to shut(1) vs of shame, shend of our foos, (2544) He shot thurgh the sheltrone & shent of hor knightes (5249) Citing these examples, OED defines shend, v. 1: ~6. In the Destruction of Troy the phrase to shend of is app. equivalent to the...

Bounden as a sheep. (an interpretation of a metaphor in the sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent)
March 1, 1994... pe come of pis breed wes sowen in pe Virgyn Marie by Pe worde of God when she seide to pe aungel: ~Lo! pe handmayde of God'; is sprungen vp in his birpe; and wax in vertuis, and age, and wisdom; and frutid by vertuous werkis til he wes ripe...

The etymology of modern dialect 'en, 'him.' (southwestern England dialect)
March 1, 1994... THE traditional dialects of much of the South-West of England have (<'en>/(e))n/, ~him' as the oblique form of the 3rd person singular masculine pronoun. Murray in OED s.v. hin, hine derived this variant from /xine/, the Old English...

John Skelton's influence on John Bale.
March 1, 1994... JOHN KING has documented the ways in which John Skelton was absorbed into a native, specifically protestant, literary tradition.(1) It is a rather nice irony of literary history that a vociferously anti-protestant poet, perhaps sponsored by...

More on 'Brown - ugly?' (Elizabethan and Jacobean usage) (response to I.A. Shapiro, Notes and Queries, vol. 39, p. 445, December 1992)
March 1, 1994... IN Notes and Queries for December 1992, I. A. Shapiro argued for the adjective brown in Elizabethan and Jacobean usage to mean ~ill-favoured' or ~ugly'. Additional apparent instances of this usage may be adduced from traditional balladry. Two...

The date of 'The Image of Idleness.'
March 1, 1994... THE IMAGE OF IDLENESS, hailed by its recent editor as ~one of the most important early links in the development of the English novel',(1) states on the title-page of its first edition that it was printed in 155 5. But this is according to the...

A Grammar of Old English, vol. 1, Phonology.
March 1, 1994... Hogg, R. M., Pp. xii + 355. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. 50.00 [pounds]. NO advanced grammar of Old English has appeared since 1965, when Karl Brunner published the third edition of his Altenglische Grammatik;...

Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West.
March 1, 1994... Parkes, M. B., Pp. xvi + 327 (including 74 plates). Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992. 55.00 [pounds]. THE essential function punctuation has assumed as an integral part of the written language stands in striking contrast to the attention...

Women's Writing in Middle English.
March 1, 1994... Barratt, A. (ed.), Pp. xv + 328 (Longman Annotated Texts). London and New York: Longman, 1992.128.00. IF this anthology is hitching a lift on the feminist bandwagon, it is fair to say that it has earned it. Barratt acknowledges the...

Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts.
March 1, 1994... Blamires, A. (ed.; with K. Pratt and C. W. Marx), Pp. xv + 327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Hardbound 30.00 [pounds]; paperbound 19.95. THIS is a substantial anthology of key ancient and medieval texts for and against women, which...

The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard.
March 1, 1994... Dan, J. M. and Zacher, C. K. (eds), Pp. 354. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 936.50. JAMES DEAN and Christian Zacher introduce Donald R. Howard as ~a powerful, significant...

Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the 'Canterbury Tales.'
March 1, 1994... Mandel, J., Pp. 257. Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 31.95[pounds]. WHILE scholars have lavished attention on individual tales within the...

Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Douce 104.
March 1, 1994... Pearsall, D. (intro.; catalogue of illustrations by K. Scott), Pp. xcv + facsimile. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992. 130.00[pounds]. ALTHOUGH known to Langland scholars, Douce 104 was perhaps first brought to general notice by its inclusion...

Tyndale's Old Testament: Being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to 2 Chronicles of 1537, and Jonah.
March 1, 1994... Tyndale, W. (trans.; ed. D. Daniell), Pp. xxxviii + 643. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. 25.00[pounds]. THIS is the second instalment and completion of David Daniell's modernization project, following his Tyndale's New...

A Pleasant Conceited Historie, Called the Taming of a Shrew.
March 1, 1994... Shakespeare, W. (ed. G. Holderness and B. Loughrey), Pp. v + 106; New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Paperbound, each 3.95[pounds]. ANYONE who takes a straight look at the so-called Bad...

The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
March 1, 1994... Pp. v + 136 (Shakespearean Originals: First Editions). New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Paperbound, each 3.95[pounds]. ANYONE who takes a straight look at the so-called Bad Quartos' can...

Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen.
March 1, 1994... Crowl, S., Pp. xiii + 195. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. 929.95[pounds]. THIS collection of essays focuses on Shakespearian production since the nineteen-sixties, examining work for both stage and screen. Samuel Crowl sets out to...

Bit Parts in Shakespeare's Plays.
March 1, 1994... Mahood, M. M., Pp. ix + 252. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 35.00[pounds]. ~THE shortest scripted part in the canon', observes Professor Mahood in her opening chapter, ~is the Second Senator in Cymbeline,...

Shakespeare's Mouldy Tales: Recurrent Plot Motifs in Shakespearian Drama.
March 1, 1994... Scragg, L,. Pp. vii + 201 (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library). London and New York: Longman, 1992. Paperbound 19.99[pounds]. ~THE shortest scripted part in the canon', observes Professor Mahood in her opening chapter, ~is the...

Meaning by Shakespeare.
March 1, 1994... Pp. x + 173. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Hardbound 30.00[pounds]; paperbound 8.99[pounds]. THIS latest collection of essays by Terence Hawkes constitutes, as he notes himself, a sharpening of the concerns of his previous work....

The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1600-1769.
March 1, 1994... Dobson, M., Pp. x + 266. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 30.00[pounds]. SINCE the mid 1980s research into Shakespeare's reception in various times and places has become a thriving and presumably endless industry. The earlier efforts...

Richard Farmer: Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, A Forgotten Shakespearean.
March 1, 1994... Sherbo, A., Pp. 223. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 26.95[pounds]. SINCE the mid 1980s research into Shakespeare's reception in various times and places has become a thriving...

A cautionary note on Arthur Golding's names for Actaeon's dogs. (response to Francis Celoria, Notes and Queries, vol. 39, p. 289, September 1992)
March 1, 1994... IN a recent article, Francis Celoria directed attention to Arthur Golding's treatment of the names of Actaeon's dogs in his translation of the Metamorphoses (1567).(1) It was with Golding that the most celebrated pack of hounds in classical...

'Valiant Aristomenes': a Messenian hero in Sidney's 'Old Arcadia.' (Sir Philip Sidney)
March 1, 1994... MUSIDORUS'plan to elope with the Princess Pamela requires the removal of her rustic guardians, the chief of whom, Dametas, is lured away by the false promise of treasure buried deep beneath a ~box of cypress with the name of the valiant...

Sidney's emperors. (English poet Sir Philip Sidney)
March 1, 1994... PHILIP SIDNEY's invaluable letter of pedagogical advice to Edward Denny contains, in the midst of a long list of ancient historians, an injunction to read ~the Emperours lyves, gathered together in a volume by Henricus Stephanus'.(1) John...

An instance of number symbolism in Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' I.6. (Edmund Spenser)
March 1, 1994... THE opening sequence of Book 1, canto 6 of The Faerie Queene -- the episode of Una and the Satyrs -- has puzzled generations of Spenser scholars. The satyrs themselves have been accorded many tentative identifications. Since Upton's...

Queen Margaret's Christian worm of conscience. (William Shakespeare's 'Richard III')
March 1, 1994... QUEEN MARGARET wishes for Richard of Gloucester: ~The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul' (King Richard III I.iii.222).(1) Antony Hammond comments of the speech in which the line occurs: ~Margaret's theology is, as usual,...

Thomas Phaer and the London literati. (response to Anthony Brian Taylor, Notes and Queries, vol. 232, p. 207, 1987)
March 1, 1994... IN these pages a few years ago, Anthony Brian Taylor drew attention to ~hopping' hearts in Thomas Phaer's translation of The Aeneid and in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.(1) Taylor alleged a direct parallel between the two....

Shakespeare, Dunstan Gale, and Golding. (William Shakespeare, Dunstan Gale and Arthur Golding's treatment of the Pyramus and Thisbe myth)
March 1, 1994... IT has been suggested that the score of possible sources for and influences on the Pyramus and Thisbe playlet in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream may be supplemented by Dunstan Gale's (fl. 1596) narrative poem Pyramus and Thisbe...

'Let vultures gripe thy guts': Pistol cursing Falstaff in particularly apt terms. ('The Merry Wives of Windsor')
March 1, 1994... WHEN in the first act of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff, in order to further his lecherous designs on both women, gives Pistol a letter for Mistress Page and Nym one for Mistress Ford, which both refuse to deliver, a row breaks out....

'Hamlet' and 'The Secret Miracle of Nature.' (relation between Shakespeare's play and 16th-century work by Levinus Lemnius)
March 1, 1994... SIMILARITIES -- rooted in the medicine of the day -- between Hamlet and Levinus Lemnius's The Secret Miracles of Nature have not been noted. Lemnius (1505-68) was a well-known Dutch physician whose publications were widely Circulated in...

John Reynolds, Merchant of Exeter, and his Contribution to the Literary Scene, 1620-1660.
March 1, 1994... Walmsley, J. M., Pp. xi + 230 (Studies in British Literature, vol. 15). Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellor Press, 1991. IN 1621 John Reynolds published the first volume of his best-selling collection of murder stories,...

The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley, vol. 2, Poems: 1656, part 1, The Mistress.
March 1, 1994... Cowley, A. (ed. T. O. Calhoun, L. Heyworth, and J. King), vol. 2, Poems (1656), Part 1, The Mistress. Pp. 649. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993. 60.00 [pounds]. AT a time when...

English Verse Satire from Donne to Dryden: Imitation of Classical Models.
March 1, 1994... Wheeler, A. J., Pp. 368. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitats-verlag, 1992. Hardbound DM 112.00; paperbound DM84.00. IF you are looking for a descriptive narrative of classical satiric manifestations in English verse satire between 1590...

Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740.
March 1, 1994... Grundy, I. and Wiseman, S. (eds), Pp. 239. London: Batsford, 1992. Hardbound 25.00 [pounds]; paperbound 12.99 [pounds]. FOCUSING on the period between the final years of Charles I's personal rule and the second Hanoverian reign, this...

Racine: A Theatrical Reading.
March 1, 1994... Maskell, D., Pp. xi + 272. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 35.00 [pounds]. STUDENTS of Racine's theatre will find much that is instructive and helpful in this thorough, well-documented, and systematic volume -- for example, in the...

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Vol. 7, Facsimile of Pepys's Catalogue: part 1, 'Catalogue' and 'Alphabet.'
March 1, 1994... McKitterick, D. (ed.; gen.ed. R. Latham; photographs by G. Bye), Vol. VII, Part i, Part ii, Pp. xxxvi + c. 184 + 369. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. 120.00 [pounds]. OVER thirty years ago the late A. N. L. Munby lamented how paradoxical...

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, vol. 7, Facsimile of Pepys's Catalogue: part 2, 'Appendix Classica.'
March 1, 1994... McKitterick, D. (ed.; gen.ed. R. Latham; photographs by G. Bye), Vol. VII, Part i, Part ii, Pp. xxxvi + c. 184 + 369. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991. 120.00 [pounds]. OVER thirty years ago the late A. N. L. Munby lamented how paradoxical...

Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic.
March 1, 1994... Colomb, G. C., Pp. xxiii + 228. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. $32.50. PROFESSOR COLOMB's book offers something far more selective and (in all senses) partial than the comprehensive study of the...

William Congreve.
March 1, 1994... Thomas, D., Pp. xii + 179 (English Dramatists). Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Paperbound 9.99 [pounds]. AFTER the first night of The School for Scandal Richard Sheridan was favourably compared with William Congreve whose plays...

Sheridan and Goldsmith.
March 1, 1994... Worth, K., Pp. x + 166 (English Dramatists). Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Paperbound 9.99 [pounds]. AFTER the first night of The School for Scandal Richard Sheridan was favourably compared with William Congreve whose plays The...

Johnson and Scotland in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides.
March 1, 1994... Rogers, P. (ed.), Pp. xxii + 330. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. 25.00 [pounds]. THE irreconcilable nature of eyewitness reports has long been a forensic topic, and is still often experienced with astonishment by the...

Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s.
March 1, 1994... Mee, J., Pp. xvi + 251 + 8 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 35.00[pounds]. JOHN MEE's book sets out to historicize Blake, and within certain limits is hugely successful. His main aim is to show the ~deep involvement of Blake's...

George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land.
March 1, 1994... Edwards, G., Pp. viii + 222 (Studies in British Literature, vol. 7). Lewiston, Queenstown, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. 29.00[pounds]. ONE of Crabbe's verse-tales has already been subjected to deconstruction (by J. Hillis Miller)...

More nuns and nunneries and Hamlet's speech to Ophelia.
March 1, 1994... R. V. HOLDSWORTH's recent note (N&Q, ccxxxviii (1993), 192-3) adds a number of examples to those that D. S. Bland and I presented some time ago (N&Q, ccx (1965), 332; ccxiii (1968), 248-9) to prove that in Elizabethan and Jacobean slang ~nun'...

Ophelia's flowers again. ('Hamlet')
March 1, 1994... ~OPHELIA's distribution of flowers still awaits satisfactory elucidation', according to Harold Jenkins in his Arden edition of Hamlet.(1) In his commentary on Iv.v.173-83 and Iv.vii.165-82, Jenkins argues persuasively that there can be no...

'Antiqui dicunt': classical aspects of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
March 1, 1994... THAT Shakespeare commingles different mythological types in portraying the three ~witches' of Macbeth is perhaps an obvious feature of the ~weird sisters" dramatic make-up in the play.(1) They clearly are more than commonplace witches as that...

'Fronted with the sight of a bear': 'Cox of Collumpton' and 'The Winter's Tale.'
March 1, 1994... THE challenge of how to show the bear in Act III of The Winter's Tale continues to put modern directors to the test. Roger Warren, in his account of Sir Peter Hall's production at the National Theatre in 1988, reports that Hall thought that...

Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831.
March 1, 1994... Kent, D. A. and Ewen, D. R. (eds), 1797-18.31. Pp. 409. Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 45.00[pounds]. THESE parodies do not generally entertain...

Wordsworth.
March 1, 1994... Williams, J. (ed.), Pp. ix + 216 (New Casebooks). Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1993. Paperbound 99.50. READERS of T. S. Eliot's poem ~cousin Nancy' will recall that Miss Ellicott's aunts were nonplussed by her apparently outrageous...

Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle.
March 1, 1994... Joseph, G., Pp. xvi + 274. Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 35.00[pounds]. TEXTILES are the fashion in Tennyson studies in the 1990s. A few years ago there was Many Glancing Colours, a...

Tennyson's Language.
March 1, 1994... Hair, D. S., Pp. vii + 198. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1991. 35.00[pounds]. TENNYSON's delight in hearing the sound of his own voice was not always shared by his listeners, including his wife. The innumerable...

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1871-1892, vol. 3.
March 1, 1994... Tennyson, Alfred Lord (ed. C. Y. Lang and E. F. Shannon Jr), vol. III. Pp. xii + 522. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 60.00pounds]. TENNYSON had not the temperament to reveal himself in his correspondence and dared to expose his feelings...

The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel.
March 1, 1994... Skilton, D. (ed.), Pp. ix + 182 (Critical Approach Series). London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Hardbound 135.00; paperbound 11.99[pounds]. THIS work is a welcome addition to Routledge's Critical Approaches series. David Skilton brings...

Dickens, Women and Language.
March 1, 1994... Ingham, P., Pp. viii + 152. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Paperbound 9.95[pounds]. DICKENS, WOMEN AND LANGUAGE is a stimulating exploration of the novelist's female characters. This is...

Israel at Vanity Fair: Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W.M. Thackeray.
March 1, 1994... Prawer, S. S., Pp. ix + 439 (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, vol. II). Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1992. $123.00. PRAWER's study of Thackeray is an exhaustive work of criticism. It discusses the full range of...

Numerology in the time scheme of 'The Tempest.'
March 1, 1994... SHAKESPEARE's The Tempest obtrudingly announces and enacts its central concern with time. The play's action occupies exactly one afternoon. Near its start Ariel replies to a request for ~the time o' the' day' with ~Past the mid season', and...

'Sir Thomas More,' 'Pericles' and stylometry. (response to Thomas Merriam, Notes and Queries, vol. 39, p. 341, September 1992)
March 1, 1994... FOR a stylometric study to be credible there are fundamentals which must be satisfied: for instance, the method of selecting tests should not be arbitrary, the tests should not have obvious defects which could readily perturb their ability to...

Shakespeare and Joseph Taylor. (William Shakespeare's influence on the actor Joseph Taylor)
March 1, 1994... IN his Roscius Anglicanus of 1708, John Downes seems to be claiming that Thomas Betterton's interpretation of the role of Hamlet was derived from Shakespeare's own interpretation of the part: Hamlet being Performed by Mr. Betterton, Sir...

It's no allusion to Donne. (poet John Donne) (response to Guy Butler, Notes and Queries, vol. 39, p. 357, September 1992)
March 1, 1994... THE claim to have found ~a new contemporary reference to the poet Donne' (N&Q, ccxxxvii (1992), 357) is mistaken. The passage cited from R. Tofte,s translation of a work by Ercole and Torquato Tasso, Of Marriage and Wiving (S.T.C. 23690, ent....

Identifying Anthony Rivers SJ. (Society of Jesus)
March 1, 1994... ALTHOUGH Brother Henry Foley SJ, included ~Rivers' among the aliases of Father Henry Floyd (1563-1641),the fact that he also passed as Lloyd, Smith, Simonds, and Flud, with an ominous ~&c.' at the end of the short list which was all that...

Jonson's reading of the Latin classics: new evidence. (English playwright and poet Ben Jonson)
March 1, 1994... BEN JONSON'S consuming interest in Latin literature is obvious not only from the works he wrote but also from the books he read and marked. Many of the surviving books from his library testify to his deep concern with Roman culture -- none...

Ball-playing in Jonson's 'Volpone.' (playwright Ben Jonson)
March 1, 1994... IN Act II, scene ii, of Ben Jonson's Volpone, Volpone poses as Scoto Mantuano, a famous mountebank selling a quack cure-all in order to get a glimpse of Celia, an intended conquest'. Recommending himself to a gathering crowd of the curious...

Middleton's song of Cupid. (Thomas Middleton's 'Cupid is Venus' only Joy')
March 1, 1994... Three Versions THE fullest text of the song ~Cupid is Venus' Only Joy' is found in the fourth act of Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, where it is sung by the supposed Welsh Gentlewoman, Sir Walter Whorehound's discarded...

A Middleton oath in 'A Yorkshire Tragedy' and 'The Bloody Banquet.' (Thomas Middleton)
March 1, 1994... IN his study of the Middleton canon, David J. Lake(1) notes an odd form of oath which occurs in two plays sometimes ascribed to Middleton, A Yorkshire Tragedy and The Bloody Banquet. At viii.4-5 of A Yorkshire Tragedy(2) the Husband is thrown...

John Ford's ''Tis Pity She's a Whore' and early diagnoses of folie a deux.
March 1, 1994... IN John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's A Whore published in 1633) a brother and sister, Giovanni and Annabella, fall in love with each other and embark on an incestuous affair. Annabella then becomes pregnant and marries her suitor Soranzo; he...

'The Popes Complaint to His Minion Cardinals': the queried date of STC 19483 confirmed by a source. (1631 work)
March 1, 1994... STC entry 19483, entitled The Popes Complaint to His Minion Cardinals, Against the Good successe of the Bohemians and their generall Proceedings (London, 1620?), is a verse satire, probably the prototype for John Taylor's The Suddaine Turne...

The sources of Joabin's speech in Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis.'
March 1, 1994... IN New Atlantis, Francis Bacon presented the Jewish figure of Joabin, the second man whom the travellers to the island of Bensalem meet after the Christian priest. In the first speech made by Joabin, Bacon portrayed him and his Bensalemite...

Herbert's 'Paradise' and Isaiah 61:3. (George Herbert)
March 1, 1994... ALMOST all the lyrics in The Temple have a generative Biblical epigraph, either explicitly stated in the title "Grieve not the Holy Spirit &c.'; ~Our life is hid with Christ in God') or implied as a sort of ~figured bass' throughout the poem....

Quarles, Waller, Marvell, and the instruments of state. (Andrew Marvell's subversion of Francis Quarles and Edmund Waller poetic treatment of the state)
March 1, 1994... COMMENTARIES on ~The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.' regularly draw attention to Andrew Marvell's use of a ~series of witty, elaborate musical and architectural conceits'(1) based on the familiar story of Amphion raising the...

The Windings of the Labyrinth: Quest and Structure in the Major Novels of Wilkie Collins.
March 1, 1994... Thoms, P., Pp. viii + 182. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. 33.25pounds]. MOST recent criticism of Wilkie Collins has been focused on the ways in which his novels expose sources of tension and anxiety in the dominant ideology of...

The Excluded and Collaborative Stories.
March 1, 1994... Hardy, T. (ed. P. Dalziel). Pp. ix + 443. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 50.00 [pounds]. THESE are both scholarly books intended for a specialist audience. The Excluded and Collaborative Stories comprises nine shorter pieces which Hardy...

Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy.
March 1, 1994... Morgan, R., Pp. xi + 215. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 35.00 [pounds]. THESE are both scholarly books intended for a specialist audience. The Excluded and Collaborative Stories comprises nine shorter pieces which Hardy did not...

'Sketches of Etruscan Places' and Other Italian Essays.
March 1, 1994... Lawrence, D. H. (ed. S. de Filippis), Pp. lxxiii + 387 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence). Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 65.00 [pounds]. IT is good to have a decent...

To the Lighthouse.
March 1, 1994... Woolf, V. (ed. S. Dick), Pp. xxxviii + 229 (The Shakespeare Head Edition of Virginia Woolf). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1992. 35.00 [pounds]. ALTHOUGH Woolf's texts have not generated the animosity...

Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Literary Partnership.
March 1, 1994... Alexander, P. F., Pp. xi + 265. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. 19.95 [pounds]. ALEXANDER sets out to show the mutual influence exerted upon each other's writings by Leonard and Virginia...

Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917-41.
March 1, 1994... Willis, Jr, J. H., Pp. xvi + 451. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1992. $29.95. ALEXANDER sets out to show the mutual influence exerted upon each other's writings by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and to show, as it...

Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde: the Politics of the Intellect.
March 1, 1994... Foshay, T. A., Pp. x + 177. Montreal and Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. 129.95. WYNDHAM LEWIS is arguably the most transgressive of early twentieth-century writers, undermining positions and categories...