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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus2
More on the Rope-Dancing Couple Jacob Hall (fl. 1670–1681/2) and Susanna Roy2
Thomas Chatterton and the Death of John William Polidori: Copycat or Coincidence?2
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name2
The Authorship of the ‘Metrical Calendar of Hampson’1
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
Bromborough, Brunanburh, and Dingesmere1
‘See, See, Where Christ’s Blood Streams in the Firmament’: Marlowe’s Recollection of a Corpus Christi Doomsday Pageant1
Did Chaucer Know Livy?1
Samuel Richardson’s Misattribution to Pliny in Sir Charles Grandison1
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament1
Books Received1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
The French-Origin Definite Article ly in English Records1
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)1
John Milton, Ambrose Barnes, and the Republic of Newcastle1
The Origins of the Player King and Player Queen Speech Prefixes in Hamlet1
Was Shakespeare Cuckoo about Wrens?1
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers1
‘The Man Who Grew Young Again’: Doctor Moreau as Rejuvenator in the Island of Doctor Moreau1
History and the Name of the Hero in Boeve De Haumtone1
Three New Sources for ‘Locksley Hall’: Goethe, Byron, and Dickens1
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene1
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara1
The ‘Restored’ Kyd Canon: Interpreting the Evidence of Unique Verbal Matches1
The Influence of Philip Massinger’s The Maid of Honour on The Roman Actor1
The Game Prisoner’s Base in Early Modern English Literature1
A Source for the Satirised Vocabulary in Poetaster1
The Origin of the Phrase ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’1
The Correct Publication Date of Mary Wellington's ‘1718’ Edition of Hamlet1
Shakespeare’s Cathayans: Twelfth Night, Maritime Exchange, and Early Modern China1
The Origins of £: S: D1
Proverbs and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice1
John Gower and ‘John of Bridlington’: An Unnoticed Borrowing1
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog1
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
‘As the Starling said’: Quoting Laurence Sterne in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park0
Rochester’s ‘Too Longe the Wise Commons’—A Fresh Perspective0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply0
The Provenance of The Birth of Hercules0
Elijah Fenton’s Copy of Spenser’s Works (1679)0
The Anonymous Tragedy of Nero and Matthew Gwinne’s Nero0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Who is the Queen?0
New Manuscript Fragments by John Locke0
‘Totquot’& Satire: As Many Snickers As You Please0
Who is Ts’ai Chi’h?0
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
Euripides’ Bacchae and Shakespeare’s Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
Our Courier has been Struck by Lightning0
An Early Printing of an Anonymous Tract by Francis Bacon0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
The Almeda Plot Strand and the Text of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two0
Reginald, Lord Cobham of Sterborough (D. 1361), As Marshal of the King’s Army in 13400
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and PucK’s Joke0
Bayles and Parr: Two Very, Very, Old Men0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life0
Eve’s Childless Future and Genesis 3:19 in Paradise Lost0
Chaucer, House of Fame, 10390
John Ray on Bookwheels0
The Date and Style of John Gower’s Ecce Patet Tensus0
A Previously Unrecorded Copy of a Middle English Medical Text in Wellcome MS 4080
The Second Wife: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters (1864–66) and Katharine Thomson’s Widows and Widowers: A Romance of Real Life (1842)0
Books Received0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
Skelton’s English Diodorus and the 1481 Edition of Poggio’s Latin Translation0
A Seventeenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Pseudoscience, n.’0
‘Odium’ in John Gauden’s Political and Religious Pamphlets0
Identifying Milton’s ‘Presence Divine’ as the Son of God: An Allusion to Revelation 1:17 in Paradise Lost VIII.314–170
A Note on the Neglected Compositional Motivation of D. H. Lawrence’s ‘Hymns in a Man’s Life’0
The Erodatus Enigma: A Lost Thirteenth-Century Geography in Late Medieval France0
Bede’s ‘Adesto, Christe, Uocibus’ and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew0
Unnoted textual Witnesses in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum0
The Old English Pronoun þæge: An Addendum to Michiko Ogura, ‘Late West Saxon Forms of the Demonstrative Pronouns as Native Prototypes of They0
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1815–17: A Supplement to the Union List0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
‘Ysonde’ or ‘Ysoude’ in Sir Tristrem?0
A Source for Robert Browning’s ‘A Likeness’0
A Further Echo of Studley’s Translation of Seneca’S Medea in Shakespeare’s Macbeth0
The Possible Origins of Edmund’s Birtherism: Thomas, Lord Cromwell by ‘W.S.’0
New Light on Pope’s Thalestris: Reconnecting Warton’s ‘Mrs. Morly’0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
Orlando’s Beard and Love Cures in As You Like It0
O M Brack, Jr and Robert DeMaria, Jr (eds.), Samuel Johnson. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings0
‘Widow Dido’ and ‘Widower Aeneas’: Some Undeciphered Ribaldry in The Tempest0
William Blundell and the Authorship of A History of the Isle of Man (C.1648–1656)0
Peter K. Andersson. Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
William Poole (ed.), The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume XI: Manuscript Writings0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman0
Old English Attor ÆlfÆle (Andreas, line 770a)0
Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
A New Perspective on the Endings of The Taming of the Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew0
The Liverpool Library as Laurence Sterne Subscriber0
E. A. Freeman’s Previously Unidentified Letters to the Editors of the Spectator and the Guardian During the Crimean War0
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary0
Reivew of Domenico Lovascio, John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics0
‘Gathered’ in Cranmer’s Translation of a Prayer of Chrysostom0
Hercule Poirot in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga0
Thomas Hardy’s ‘In St. Paul’s a While Ago’: A Source for Philip Larkin’s ‘At Grass’0
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere0
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
An Echo of Seneca’s Epistulae in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1812–14: A Supplement to the Union List0
Skeltonics and Edward Thomas’s ‘Words’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1824–1826: A Supplement to the Union List0
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)0
Edmund Curll and his Family0
Twelfth Night’s Moai: Le Solution Pour Maria’s ‘Fustian Riddle’0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
Documents on Lord Byron’s Visit to the Grand Mosques in Istanbul0
Data and Dating: Evidence For Revision in Alphonsus, ™Emperor of Germany0
On the Sisyphus Fragment in Greene’s Selimus (1594)0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
On the Oxymora in John Gower’s Est Amor in Glosa0
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
An Early English Example of the ‘Kings are Gods’ Argument0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Correction to: The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
A Newly Discovered Poem by Emily Dickinson0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
The Place-Name Cockley Cley In Norfolk0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
The Conclusion of the Finnsburg Episode (Beowulf, line 1159)0
Suppressed Polemic in Thomas Stanley’s Cambridge Manuscript0
The Performance of Tristan und Isolde in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room0
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence0
The Roots of Wilde’s Tuberose0
Mary Hearne’s The Female Deserters (1719): A Gift from Alexander Pope to John Gay?0
Inspiration for Graham Greene’s Created Proverb0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation0
‘All Souls are One’: The Idea of Unanimity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
Ben Jonson and Robert Browne of the Boar’s Head0
‘[T]hat Other Great Poet’: Double Falsehood, The Arden Shakespeare, and Further Evidence for Fletcher0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List0
Alfred Tennyson, Bulwer’s Falkland, and Graves’s Werther0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
A Revised Date for an Emily Dickinson Letter to Samuel Bowles0
The Latin Epigraph of Jonson’s News from the New World Discovered in the Moon0
Identifying John Young And Gregory Streamer in William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat0
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
Books Received0
A Previously Unnoticed Copy of the Articles of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, 15280
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
The Modular Structure of Wulfstan’s Institutes of Polity: Discarding Jost’s I Polity and II Polity0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
Pearl, Line 761: “Yor Worlde Wete”0
A Reference to Emily Dickinson in a Letter from Martha Ann (Cushing) Esty to her Sister Anna Louisa Cushing0
The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context0
A New Mnemonic for the Date of Easter0
An Unedited Witness to the Early Middle English Lyric Candet Nudatum Pectus in London, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library, MS 801A0
A Possible Source for the Term Mental Sight in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 11.418 in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed I: 40
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
Three Tudor Tongue-Twisters0
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Marlowe’s Collaborator on Doctor Faustus0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
The Birthplace of Sir Robert Southwell (1635–1702)0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1836–1840: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Expression to Fanny About0
The Image of ‘Cheeks’ in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘The Loss of the Eurydice’0
Laughing (Last) in the Brothel: Comedy and Sanctity Across the Channel in the Wake of Pericles0
John Dernelly: Haberdasher and Poet0
Another Possible Etymological Origin for ‘Gibe | Jibe, V.’0
How Joseph Ritson Scanned Piers Plowman0
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections0
The Lively Corpse of A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
Margaret Jane Kidnie (ed.), Thomas Heywood: A Woman Killed with Kindness0
Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power (eds), Early Shakespeare, 1588–15940
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
Andrew Bond: Surgeon Imprisoned in Paris with Thomas Paine0
Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a Letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
On Sarah Bernhardt’s Cancelled Production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Corrigendum To: ‘The Transmission of Wisdom Literature in Northern Europe: A Note on Durham Proverb 7 and Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae 44’0
Attribution of an Unsigned Short Story in Belgravia to Ada Buisson0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
Stand in and be Counted0
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick0
The Case for ‘Savours’ IN ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, IV.i.480
An Unidentified Latin Poem by William Alabaster and its Translation by Abraham Cowley0
‘Something Rich and Strange’: Senecan Influences on the Dover Cliff Scenes of King Lear0
Sir David Owen as Knight of the Shire for Sussex in 15230
Co-Authorship in King John: Further Evidence0
Beware the Cat: Gregory Stremer’s Westminster Connection0
Four Unpublished George Henry Lewes Letters0
Ebony and African Carvings in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
Possible Light on a Kyd Canon—Continued0
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)0
John Masefield0
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
Two Uncollected Poems by Christopher Smart?0
In Love and War: Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Gissing’s Veranilda0
‘No Love Sincerer’: Byronian Intertextuality in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
Deor Line 1: Weland’s Torment Reconsidered0
Dating the Poetry of Thomas Fairfax in Add. MS 11744 (British Library)0
Charming Words: A Possible Source for the Opening Section of A Talkyng of the Love of God0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
John Wilson Croker: An Early Unpublished Poem0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Adam Roberts, Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Cast of Scientific Romance0
James Boswell and John Trail (1700–1774)0
Allen Walker Read's Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) and the Obelisk Press0
Jennifer Richards, Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading0
The Villanelle Structure of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Peter Collister (ed.), The American Scene by Henry James0
The Etymology of ‘Girl’: Two More Ideas0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered0
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: Did John Davies of Hereford Provide a Source?0
Consent and Lemman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale0
Theodor Adorno’s Comments on Ernest Hemingway0
Comparative Plausibility of Authors of Sir Thomas More0
The Old English Pronoun þæge: An Addendum to The Addendum0
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
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