Notes and Queries

Papers
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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 Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus2
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
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
The Almeda Plot Strand and the Text of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two0
Peter Collister (ed.), The American Scene by Henry James0
Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and PucK’s Joke0
Orlando’s Beard and Love Cures in As You Like It0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered0
Our Courier has been Struck by Lightning0
A Further Echo of Studley’s Translation of Seneca’S Medea in Shakespeare’s Macbeth0
Jennifer Richards, Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
The Old English Pronoun þæge: An Addendum to The Addendum0
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
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life0
‘Widow Dido’ and ‘Widower Aeneas’: Some Undeciphered Ribaldry in The Tempest0
Theodor Adorno’s Comments on Ernest Hemingway0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
A Note on the Neglected Compositional Motivation of D. H. Lawrence’s ‘Hymns in a Man’s Life’0
Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Bede’s ‘Adesto, Christe, Uocibus’ and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew0
William Poole (ed.), The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume XI: Manuscript Writings0
‘As the Starling said’: Quoting Laurence Sterne in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park0
A Seventeenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Pseudoscience, n.’0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy0
The Anonymous Tragedy of Nero and Matthew Gwinne’s Nero0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
The Old English Pronoun þæge: An Addendum to Michiko Ogura, ‘Late West Saxon Forms of the Demonstrative Pronouns as Native Prototypes of They0
The Provenance of The Birth of Hercules0
New Light on Pope’s Thalestris: Reconnecting Warton’s ‘Mrs. Morly’0
‘Gathered’ in Cranmer’s Translation of a Prayer of Chrysostom0
New Manuscript Fragments by John Locke0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
A Source for Robert Browning’s ‘A Likeness’0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Peter K. Andersson. Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man0
An Echo of Seneca’s Epistulae in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
Who is Ts’ai Chi’h?0
O M Brack, Jr and Robert DeMaria, Jr (eds.), Samuel Johnson. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Bayles and Parr: Two Very, Very, Old Men0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman0
Edmund Curll and his Family0
A Previously Unrecorded Copy of a Middle English Medical Text in Wellcome MS 4080
Books Received0
Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Data and Dating: Evidence For Revision in Alphonsus, ™Emperor of Germany0
Chaucer, House of Fame, 10390
The Liverpool Library as Laurence Sterne Subscriber0
On the Oxymora in John Gower’s Est Amor in Glosa0
Identifying Milton’s ‘Presence Divine’ as the Son of God: An Allusion to Revelation 1:17 in Paradise Lost VIII.314–170
The Erodatus Enigma: A Lost Thirteenth-Century Geography in Late Medieval France0
Thomas Hardy’s ‘In St. Paul’s a While Ago’: A Source for Philip Larkin’s ‘At Grass’0
Correction to: The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
Skelton’s English Diodorus and the 1481 Edition of Poggio’s Latin Translation0
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary0
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1812–14: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Conclusion of the Finnsburg Episode (Beowulf, line 1159)0
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum0
Allusions to Marlowe and Jonson in a Dedicatory Poem in Taylor’s Workes, with an Attribution to Richard Hatton0
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1815–17: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation0
‘Ysonde’ or ‘Ysoude’ in Sir Tristrem?0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1824–1826: A Supplement to the Union List0
Ben Jonson and Robert Browne of the Boar’s Head0
The Possible Origins of Edmund’s Birtherism: Thomas, Lord Cromwell by ‘W.S.’0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
OUP accepted manuscript0
An Early English Example of the ‘Kings are Gods’ Argument0
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll0
Documents on Lord Byron’s Visit to the Grand Mosques in Istanbul0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
William Blundell and the Authorship of A History of the Isle of Man (C.1648–1656)0
Old English Attor ÆlfÆle (Andreas, line 770a)0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
Pearl, Line 761: “Yor Worlde Wete”0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
A Previously Unnoticed Copy of the Articles of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, 15280
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
E. A. Freeman’s Previously Unidentified Letters to the Editors of the Spectator and the Guardian During the Crimean War0
Mary Hearne’s The Female Deserters (1719): A Gift from Alexander Pope to John Gay?0
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context0
A New Perspective on the Endings of The Taming of the Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew0
The Performance of Tristan und Isolde in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
Hercule Poirot in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
Reivew of Domenico Lovascio, John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics0
The Latin Epigraph of Jonson’s News from the New World Discovered in the Moon0
The Expression to Fanny About0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere0
Alfred Tennyson, Bulwer’s Falkland, and Graves’s Werther0
An Unedited Late Middle English Religious Lyric in Bodl. Ms Rawl. B. 1780
The Modular Structure of Wulfstan’s Institutes of Polity: Discarding Jost’s I Polity and II Polity0
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections0
Twelfth Night’s Moai: Le Solution Pour Maria’s ‘Fustian Riddle’0
Skeltonics and Edward Thomas’s ‘Words’0
Books Received0
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)0
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
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
A Reference to Emily Dickinson in a Letter from Martha Ann (Cushing) Esty to her Sister Anna Louisa Cushing0
Andrew Bond: Surgeon Imprisoned in Paris with Thomas Paine0
On the Sisyphus Fragment in Greene’s Selimus (1594)0
An Unedited Witness to the Early Middle English Lyric Candet Nudatum Pectus in London, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library, MS 801A0
On Sarah Bernhardt’s Cancelled Production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
The Place-Name Cockley Cley In Norfolk0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Three Tudor Tongue-Twisters0
Attribution of an Unsigned Short Story in Belgravia to Ada Buisson0
A Newly Discovered Poem by Emily Dickinson0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick0
The Roots of Wilde’s Tuberose0
Inspiration for Graham Greene’s Created Proverb0
Laughing (Last) in the Brothel: Comedy and Sanctity Across the Channel in the Wake of Pericles0
Sir David Owen as Knight of the Shire for Sussex in 15230
Suppressed Polemic in Thomas Stanley’s Cambridge Manuscript0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Four Unpublished George Henry Lewes Letters0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List0
Margaret Jane Kidnie (ed.), Thomas Heywood: A Woman Killed with Kindness0
John Masefield0
‘All Souls are One’: The Idea of Unanimity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree0
Another Possible Etymological Origin for ‘Gibe | Jibe, V.’0
Two Uncollected Poems by Christopher Smart?0
‘[T]hat Other Great Poet’: Double Falsehood, The Arden Shakespeare, and Further Evidence for Fletcher0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Identifying John Young And Gregory Streamer in William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Adam Roberts, Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Cast of Scientific Romance0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
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
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
A Revised Date for an Emily Dickinson Letter to Samuel Bowles0
Stand in and be Counted0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
An Unidentified Latin Poem by William Alabaster and its Translation by Abraham Cowley0
The Etymology of ‘Girl’: Two More Ideas0
Corrigendum To: ‘The Transmission of Wisdom Literature in Northern Europe: A Note on Durham Proverb 7 and Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae 44’0
Allen Walker Read's Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) and the Obelisk Press0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
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
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)0
Consent and Lemman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale0
A New Mnemonic for the Date of Easter0
Beware the Cat: Gregory Stremer’s Westminster Connection0
‘No Love Sincerer’: Byronian Intertextuality in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
Deor Line 1: Weland’s Torment Reconsidered0
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
Marlowe’s Collaborator on Doctor Faustus0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Elijah Fenton’s Copy of Spenser’s Works (1679)0
The Image of ‘Cheeks’ in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘The Loss of the Eurydice’0
The Birthplace of Sir Robert Southwell (1635–1702)0
Charming Words: A Possible Source for the Opening Section of A Talkyng of the Love of God0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1836–1840: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Villanelle Structure of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Who is the Queen?0
The Lively Corpse of A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
John Dernelly: Haberdasher and Poet0
James Boswell and John Trail (1700–1774)0
How Joseph Ritson Scanned Piers Plowman0
Comparative Plausibility of Authors of Sir Thomas More0
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss0
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions0
Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power (eds), Early Shakespeare, 1588–15940
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: Did John Davies of Hereford Provide a Source?0
Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a Letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion0
The Case for ‘Savours’ IN ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, IV.i.480
‘Something Rich and Strange’: Senecan Influences on the Dover Cliff Scenes of King Lear0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
An Early Printing of an Anonymous Tract by Francis Bacon0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
Rochester’s ‘Too Longe the Wise Commons’—A Fresh Perspective0
Reginald, Lord Cobham of Sterborough (D. 1361), As Marshal of the King’s Army in 13400
Ebony and African Carvings in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko0
Possible Light on a Kyd Canon—Continued0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Eve’s Childless Future and Genesis 3:19 in Paradise Lost0
Co-Authorship in King John: Further Evidence0
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply0
The Date and Style of John Gower’s Ecce Patet Tensus0
In Love and War: Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Gissing’s Veranilda0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
‘Totquot’& Satire: As Many Snickers As You Please0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
‘Odium’ in John Gauden’s Political and Religious Pamphlets0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Euripides’ Bacchae and Shakespeare’s Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
Unnoted textual Witnesses in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Dating the Poetry of Thomas Fairfax in Add. MS 11744 (British Library)0
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen0
John Wilson Croker: An Early Unpublished Poem0
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