Notes and Queries

Papers
(The median citation count of Notes and Queries is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Brussels Cross Inscription and the Finnsburg Fragment2
Unique Phrases and the Canon of Thomas Kyd2
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus2
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name2
‘The Man Who Grew Young Again’: Doctor Moreau as Rejuvenator in the Island of Doctor Moreau1
How Many Playwrights Wrote Arden of Faversham? The Samuel Rowley Connection1
The Origins of £: S: D1
Books Received1
The ‘er …’ as One of Ben Jonson’s Composition Techniques?1
John Gower and ‘John of Bridlington’: An Unnoticed Borrowing1
The ‘Restored’ Kyd Canon: Interpreting the Evidence of Unique Verbal Matches1
John Milton, Ambrose Barnes, and the Republic of Newcastle1
The Influence of Philip Massinger’s The Maid of Honour on The Roman Actor1
The Origins of the Player King and Player Queen Speech Prefixes in Hamlet1
Bromborough, Brunanburh, and Dingesmere1
A Source for the Satirised Vocabulary in Poetaster1
Did Chaucer Know Livy?1
Samuel Richardson’s Misattribution to Pliny in Sir Charles Grandison1
The Textual Condition of The Dream of the Rood lines 75–71
Verse and Prose in Henry V Continued1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog1
A Footnote on Scottish Prophecy1
Erce in the Old English Æcerbot Charm: An Irish Solution1
An Overlooked Version of the Anglo-Latin Gesta Romanorum1
Some More About Harriet Morton: Author of Protestant Vigils; Or, Evening Records of a Journey in Italy, in the Years 1826 and 1827. 2 Vols (London, 1829)1
More on the Rope-Dancing Couple Jacob Hall (fl. 1670–1681/2) and Susanna Roy1
Thomas Chatterton and the Death of John William Polidori: Copycat or Coincidence?1
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers1
The Correct Publication Date of Mary Wellington's ‘1718’ Edition of Hamlet1
Three New Sources for ‘Locksley Hall’: Goethe, Byron, and Dickens1
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene1
Proverbs and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice1
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara1
The French-Origin Definite Article ly in English Records1
Plagiarism in The Mistakes (1691)1
‘Quit Presently the Chapel’: A Note on Setting in the Final Scene of The Winter’s Tale1
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)1
The Authorship of the ‘Metrical Calendar of Hampson’1
The Game Prisoner’s Base in Early Modern English Literature1
A Checklist of Short and Fragmentary Unrhymed English Alliterative Poems, 1300–16001
Unnoted textual Witnesses in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Books Received0
A Revised Date for an Emily Dickinson Letter to Samuel Bowles0
Ebony and African Carvings in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko0
Sir Peter Carew as the author of A Copye of a letter (1549) concerning the Western Rebellion0
The Image of ‘Cheeks’ in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘The Loss of the Eurydice’0
Adam Roberts, Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Cast of Scientific Romance0
A Further Echo of Studley’s Translation of Seneca’S Medea in Shakespeare’s Macbeth0
William Godwin’s Correspondence on Proof Corrections to St. Leon0
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere0
The Place-Name Cockley Cley In Norfolk0
Co-Authorship in King John: Further Evidence0
Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power (eds), Early Shakespeare, 1588–15940
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
Books Received0
A Previously Unrecorded Copy of a Middle English Medical Text in Wellcome MS 4080
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters0
Sallustian Views of Nature and Ethics in Paradise Lost, Book 80
The Enlarged Kyd Canon: Comments on a Recent Study0
The Etymology of ‘Girl’: Two More Ideas0
Allen Walker Read's Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) and the Obelisk Press0
‘Totquot’& Satire: As Many Snickers As You Please0
Skeltonics and Edward Thomas’s ‘Words’0
‘As the Starling said’: Quoting Laurence Sterne in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park0
Dating the Poetry of Thomas Fairfax in Add. MS 11744 (British Library)0
Hearne, Roper, More, and Rambler 710
Alison Chapman, Networking the Nation: British and American Women’s Poetry and Italy, 1840–18700
Kimberley Reynolds, Left Out: The Forgotten Tradition of Radical Publishing for Children in Britain 1910–19490
Books Received0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
Shall i Compare Thee? Sonnet 18 and Robert Greene’s Menaphon0
Further Emendation of Piers Plowman C.3.1420
Reader’s Queries0
Possible Light on a Kyd Canon—Continued0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
Data and Dating: Evidence For Revision in Alphonsus, ™Emperor of Germany0
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections0
Sarah Grochala, The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure0
The Modular Structure of Wulfstan’s Institutes of Polity: Discarding Jost’s I Polity and II Polity0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
Our Courier has been Struck by Lightning0
Correction to: The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
Colley Cibber and Winchester College0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
Identifying John Young And Gregory Streamer in William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat0
Milton’s Source for Paradise Lost 7.32–390
The Conclusion of the Finnsburg Episode (Beowulf, line 1159)0
Reginald, Lord Cobham of Sterborough (D. 1361), As Marshal of the King’s Army in 13400
The Case for ‘Savours’ IN ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, IV.i.480
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy0
The Date and Style of John Gower’s Ecce Patet Tensus0
A Restoration Career in London: Paul P. Jászberényi0
An Unedited Witness to the Early Middle English Lyric Candet Nudatum Pectus in London, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library, MS 801A0
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Shakespeare’s Englishes: Against Englishness.0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life0
‘Gathered’ in Cranmer’s Translation of a Prayer of Chrysostom0
‘Odium’ in John Gauden’s Political and Religious Pamphlets0
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Stanza Disarrangements in Hoccleve's Letter of Cupid0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
Bede’s ‘Adesto, Christe, Uocibus’ and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew0
‘This Seeming Lady and Her Brother’: Further Remarks on the Doubling of Perdita with Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale0
Two Uncollected Poems by Christopher Smart?0
Envelope Frames of Direct Speechin Beowulf0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Chaucer, House of Fame, 10390
The Anonymous Tragedy of Nero and Matthew Gwinne’s Nero0
Elizabeth B. Bearden, Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability0
Ben Jonson and Robert Browne of the Boar’s Head0
Jennifer Richards, Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading0
Allusions to Marlowe and Jonson in a Dedicatory Poem in Taylor’s Workes, with an Attribution to Richard Hatton0
An Unedited Late Middle English Religious Lyric in Bodl. Ms Rawl. B. 1780
A Lost Sonnet by H. D. Rawnsley?0
Pearl, Line 761: “Yor Worlde Wete”0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
Does ‘The Watch of [Gonzalo’s] Wit’ Strike ‘one’ or ‘on’ (The Tempest II.i.13–16)?0
John Dernelly: Haberdasher and Poet0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
Skelton’s English Diodorus and the 1481 Edition of Poggio’s Latin Translation0
Bayles and Parr: Two Very, Very, Old Men0
‘Begin+ (to) + Infinitive’: Additional Evidence0
Maxims ii, Line 10a: Soð BIð Swicolost, and the Meaning of Old English SoĐ0
Thomas Hardy’s ‘In St. Paul’s a While Ago’: A Source for Philip Larkin’s ‘At Grass’0
A Few Readings in Shakespeare’s 1609 Sonnets Lost in Modern Editions0
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum0
Hamlet and Poland0
Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Corrigendum0
‘Widow Dido’ and ‘Widower Aeneas’: Some Undeciphered Ribaldry in The Tempest0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1812–14: A Supplement to the Union List0
‘Something Rich and Strange’: Senecan Influences on the Dover Cliff Scenes of King Lear0
A New Perspective on the Endings of The Taming of the Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew0
‘Ysonde’ or ‘Ysoude’ in Sir Tristrem?0
New Manuscript Fragments by John Locke0
The Expression to Fanny About0
A Previously Unnoticed Copy of the Articles of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, 15280
Two Coastal Terms of Continental Origin: ‘Shingle’ and ‘Dene’0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
Andrew Bond: Surgeon Imprisoned in Paris with Thomas Paine0
An Echo of Seneca’s Epistulae in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae0
William Poole (ed.), The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume XI: Manuscript Writings0
Margaret Jane Kidnie (ed.), Thomas Heywood: A Woman Killed with Kindness0
The Erodatus Enigma: A Lost Thirteenth-Century Geography in Late Medieval France0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1824–1826: A Supplement to the Union List0
Attribution of an Unsigned Short Story in Belgravia to Ada Buisson0
Richard Baxter and James Ussher0
William Blundell and the Authorship of A History of the Isle of Man (C.1648–1656)0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
For Which Performance of Samuel Tuke’s The Adventures of Five Hours was John Eccles’ Setting of William Congreve’s ‘Song in Dialogue’ Intended?0
Sir David Owen as Knight of the Shire for Sussex in 15230
Edmund Curll and his Family0
Zhou Zuoren: An Early Chaucerian in China0
Twelfth Night’s Moai: Le Solution Pour Maria’s ‘Fustian Riddle’0
Peter Collister (ed.), The American Scene by Henry James0
Corrigendum To: ‘The Transmission of Wisdom Literature in Northern Europe: A Note on Durham Proverb 7 and Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae 44’0
John Masefield0
On the Oxymora in John Gower’s Est Amor in Glosa0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
Four Unpublished George Henry Lewes Letters0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1815–17: A Supplement to the Union List0
Rochester’s ‘Too Longe the Wise Commons’—A Fresh Perspective0
OUP accepted manuscript0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Christos Hadjiyiannis, Conservative Modernists: Literature and Tory Politics in Britain, 1900–19200
The Pearl-Maiden as ‘geste’: A Revenant or the Resting Place of a Hawk?0
Reader’s Queries0
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply0
On the Sisyphus Fragment in Greene’s Selimus (1594)0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
Sir Philip Sidney’s Shares in the Frobisher Expeditions0
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen0
The Possible Origins of Edmund’s Birtherism: Thomas, Lord Cromwell by ‘W.S.’0
Identifying Milton’s ‘Presence Divine’ as the Son of God: An Allusion to Revelation 1:17 in Paradise Lost VIII.314–170
A Newly Discovered Poem by Emily Dickinson0
Hercule Poirot in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga0
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
On the Etymology of ‘Spate’0
The Roots of Wilde’s Tuberose0
Orlando’s Beard and Love Cures in As You Like It0
Bacon’s Debt to Shakespear5e?0
The Faerie Queene’s Three Sages and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili0
The Meaning of Old English (un)leof0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
Who is Ts’ai Chi’h?0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Suppressed Polemic in Thomas Stanley’s Cambridge Manuscript0
The Earliest Notices of Chaucer in China0
‘of Bath’: A Middle English Idiomatic Epithet0
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll0
Laughing (Last) in the Brothel: Comedy and Sanctity Across the Channel in the Wake of Pericles0
Was It For This and Paradise Lost0
A New Mnemonic for the Date of Easter0
‘All Souls are One’: The Idea of Unanimity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree0
The Date and Place of King John’s Birth Together with a Codicil on his Name0
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Leaping Lizards (or Lice), Batman!: Piers Plowman B 5.197–201 and Some Ancillary Matters0
‘Wooluish Tongue’ and Shakespeare’s Togas0
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
Where did Julia Sit?: Another Borrowing from Montaigne in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi0
Who is the Queen?0
Consent and Lemman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale0
Steven Belletto (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Beats0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
The Birthplace of Sir Robert Southwell (1635–1702)0
An Early Printing of an Anonymous Tract by Francis Bacon0
A Possible Source for John Milton’s Paradise Lost 12.270–79 in Job 42:50
The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context0
History and the Name of the Hero in Boeve De Haumtone0
Inspiration for Graham Greene’s Created Proverb0
The Mystery of a Woman’s Legs and a Herd of Pigs in Hogarth’s Chairing the Members from The Humours of an Election (Published By Subscription, 1755–1758)0
Eve’s Childless Future and Genesis 3:19 in Paradise Lost0
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss0
The Lively Corpse of A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
Theodor Adorno’s Comments on Ernest Hemingway0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List0
Documents on Lord Byron’s Visit to the Grand Mosques in Istanbul0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
On Sarah Bernhardt’s Cancelled Production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
The Forest In Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess, Ll. 416–426: Echoes Of The Nave And Tower of Old St Paul’s Cathedral0
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions0
Schynbalds in The Awntyrs off Arthure (l. 395): Two Notes0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick0
In Love and War: Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Gissing’s Veranilda0
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman0
James Shirley’s The Cardinal and Archbishop Laud0
Elijah Fenton’s Copy of Spenser’s Works (1679)0
Robert Southwell in Cymbeline0
‘[T]hat Other Great Poet’: Double Falsehood, The Arden Shakespeare, and Further Evidence for Fletcher0
The Liverpool Library as Laurence Sterne Subscriber0
Misreading the Arms Grant in Every Man out of his Humour0
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)0
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence0
John Wilson Croker: An Early Unpublished Poem0
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
Deor Line 1: Weland’s Torment Reconsidered0
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