Notes and Queries

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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters0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