Notes and Queries

Papers
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ArticleCitations
The Brussels Cross Inscription and the Finnsburg Fragment2
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus2
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name2
A Footnote on Scottish Prophecy1
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
Three New Sources for ‘Locksley Hall’: Goethe, Byron, and Dickens1
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene1
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
Plagiarism in The Mistakes (1691)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
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
The Origins of £: S: D1
Books Received1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog1
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 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
Samuel Richardson’s Misattribution to Pliny in Sir Charles Grandison1
The Textual Condition of The Dream of the Rood lines 75–71
Proverbs and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice1
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara1
The French-Origin Definite Article ly in English Records1
O M Brack, Jr and Robert DeMaria, Jr (eds.), Samuel Johnson. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings0
John Dernelly: Haberdasher and Poet0
A New Mnemonic for the Date of Easter0
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections0
A Newly Discovered Poem by Emily Dickinson0
William Godwin’s Correspondence on Proof Corrections to St. Leon0
Was It For This and Paradise Lost0
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost0
Colley Cibber and Winchester College0
Suppressed Polemic in Thomas Stanley’s Cambridge Manuscript0
Hearne, Roper, More, and Rambler 710
Thomas Hardy’s ‘In St. Paul’s a While Ago’: A Source for Philip Larkin’s ‘At Grass’0
‘Wooluish Tongue’ and Shakespeare’s Togas0
The Birthplace of Sir Robert Southwell (1635–1702)0
Reginald, Lord Cobham of Sterborough (D. 1361), As Marshal of the King’s Army in 13400
‘All Souls are One’: The Idea of Unanimity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1812–14: A Supplement to the Union List0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
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
The Date and Style of John Gower’s Ecce Patet Tensus0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
The Lively Corpse of A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
Margaret Jane Kidnie (ed.), Thomas Heywood: A Woman Killed with Kindness0
Elizabeth B. Bearden, Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability0
Inspiration for Graham Greene’s Created Proverb0
Documents on Lord Byron’s Visit to the Grand Mosques in Istanbul0
‘Odium’ in John Gauden’s Political and Religious Pamphlets0
An Early Printing of an Anonymous Tract by Francis Bacon0
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions0
Maxims ii, Line 10a: Soð BIð Swicolost, and the Meaning of Old English SoĐ0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List0
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life0
Two Uncollected Poems by Christopher Smart?0
Eve’s Childless Future and Genesis 3:19 in Paradise Lost0
The Case for ‘Savours’ IN ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, IV.i.480
William Blundell and the Authorship of A History of the Isle of Man (C.1648–1656)0
James Shirley’s The Cardinal and Archbishop Laud0
Bede’s ‘Adesto, Christe, Uocibus’ and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew0
Ben Jonson and Robert Browne of the Boar’s Head0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
Ebony and African Carvings in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
Corrigendum0
The Anonymous Tragedy of Nero and Matthew Gwinne’s Nero0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
A Seventeenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Pseudoscience, n.’0
In Love and War: Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Gissing’s Veranilda0
Rochester’s ‘Too Longe the Wise Commons’—A Fresh Perspective0
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
Misreading the Arms Grant in Every Man out of his Humour0
A Lost Sonnet by H. D. Rawnsley?0
Leaping Lizards (or Lice), Batman!: Piers Plowman B 5.197–201 and Some Ancillary Matters0
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy0
A Possible Echo of Beowulf in Wulfstan’s Institutes of Polity0
‘[T]hat Other Great Poet’: Double Falsehood, The Arden Shakespeare, and Further Evidence for Fletcher0
The Liverpool Library as Laurence Sterne Subscriber0
Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Reivew of Domenico Lovascio, John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics0
How Joseph Ritson Scanned Piers Plowman0
‘Gathered’ in Cranmer’s Translation of a Prayer of Chrysostom0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
The Possible Origins of Edmund’s Birtherism: Thomas, Lord Cromwell by ‘W.S.’0
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary0
The Expression to Fanny About0
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower and Chaucer (1754)0
Bayles and Parr: Two Very, Very, Old Men0
Alfred Tennyson, Bulwer’s Falkland, and Graves’s Werther0
On the Etymology of ‘Spate’0
Allusions to Marlowe and Jonson in a Dedicatory Poem in Taylor’s Workes, with an Attribution to Richard Hatton0
An Echo of Seneca’s Epistulae in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
Comparative Plausibility of Authors of Sir Thomas More0
William Poole (ed.), The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume XI: Manuscript Writings0
Books Received0
Who is Ts’ai Chi’h?0
‘As the Starling said’: Quoting Laurence Sterne in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park0
Richard Baxter and James Ussher0
Co-Authorship in King John: Further Evidence0
Does ‘The Watch of [Gonzalo’s] Wit’ Strike ‘one’ or ‘on’ (The Tempest II.i.13–16)?0
Skeltonics and Edward Thomas’s ‘Words’0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Edmund Curll and his Family0
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters0
Laughing (Last) in the Brothel: Comedy and Sanctity Across the Channel in the Wake of Pericles0
Books Received0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
On the Oxymora in John Gower’s Est Amor in Glosa0
Dating the Poetry of Thomas Fairfax in Add. MS 11744 (British Library)0
New Manuscript Fragments by John Locke0
Steven Belletto (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Beats0
Possible Light on a Kyd Canon—Continued0
Our Courier has been Struck by Lightning0
Four Unpublished George Henry Lewes Letters0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
History and the Name of the Hero in Boeve De Haumtone0
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
Milton’s Source for Paradise Lost 7.32–390
The Pearl-Maiden as ‘geste’: A Revenant or the Resting Place of a Hawk?0
Data and Dating: Evidence For Revision in Alphonsus, ™Emperor of Germany0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Identifying John Young And Gregory Streamer in William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen0
Correction to: The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
A Previously Unrecorded Copy of a Middle English Medical Text in Wellcome MS 4080
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll0
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Shakespeare’s Englishes: Against Englishness.0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
The Conclusion of the Finnsburg Episode (Beowulf, line 1159)0
Identifying Milton’s ‘Presence Divine’ as the Son of God: An Allusion to Revelation 1:17 in Paradise Lost VIII.314–170
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Hercule Poirot in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga0
Allen Walker Read's Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) and the Obelisk Press0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
The Performance of Tristan und Isolde in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room0
A Restoration Career in London: Paul P. Jászberényi0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
‘Begin+ (to) + Infinitive’: Additional Evidence0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1836–1840: A Supplement to the Union List0
Bacon’s Debt to Shakespear5e?0
Kimberley Reynolds, Left Out: The Forgotten Tradition of Radical Publishing for Children in Britain 1910–19490
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
The Old English Pronoun þæge: An Addendum to Michiko Ogura, ‘Late West Saxon Forms of the Demonstrative Pronouns as Native Prototypes of They0
Reader’s Queries0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
An Unedited Late Middle English Religious Lyric in Bodl. Ms Rawl. B. 1780
Consent and Lemman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale0
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
Charming Words: A Possible Source for the Opening Section of A Talkyng of the Love of God0
A Revised Date for an Emily Dickinson Letter to Samuel Bowles0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Who is the Queen?0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
Sallustian Views of Nature and Ethics in Paradise Lost, Book 80
James Boswell and John Trail (1700–1774)0
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere0
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
A Possible Source for John Milton’s Paradise Lost 12.270–79 in Job 42:50
Chaucer, House of Fame, 10390
The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context0
Three Tudor Tongue-Twisters0
Books Received0
A New Perspective on the Endings of The Taming of the Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew0
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss0
Skelton’s English Diodorus and the 1481 Edition of Poggio’s Latin Translation0
The Date and Place of King John’s Birth Together with a Codicil on his Name0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
‘Something Rich and Strange’: Senecan Influences on the Dover Cliff Scenes of King Lear0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
On Sarah Bernhardt’s Cancelled Production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum0
‘Totquot’& Satire: As Many Snickers As You Please0
Two Coastal Terms of Continental Origin: ‘Shingle’ and ‘Dene’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1824–1826: A Supplement to the Union List0
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick0
‘Ysonde’ or ‘Ysoude’ in Sir Tristrem?0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
Reader’s Queries0
Unnoted textual Witnesses in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
The Erodatus Enigma: A Lost Thirteenth-Century Geography in Late Medieval France0
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
Robert Southwell in Cymbeline0
Andrew Bond: Surgeon Imprisoned in Paris with Thomas Paine0
Twelfth Night’s Moai: Le Solution Pour Maria’s ‘Fustian Riddle’0
Adam Roberts, Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Cast of Scientific Romance0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
Corrigendum To: ‘The Transmission of Wisdom Literature in Northern Europe: A Note on Durham Proverb 7 and Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae 44’0
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence0
Attribution of an Unsigned Short Story in Belgravia to Ada Buisson0
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 Modular Structure of Wulfstan’s Institutes of Polity: Discarding Jost’s I Polity and II Polity0
Peter Collister (ed.), The American Scene by Henry James0
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)0
Books Received0
Sir David Owen as Knight of the Shire for Sussex in 15230
The Place-Name Cockley Cley In Norfolk0
Theodor Adorno’s Comments on Ernest Hemingway0
The Etymology of ‘Girl’: Two More Ideas0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Deor Line 1: Weland’s Torment Reconsidered0
A Further Echo of Studley’s Translation of Seneca’S Medea in Shakespeare’s Macbeth0
John Masefield0
The Roots of Wilde’s Tuberose0
An Unedited Witness to the Early Middle English Lyric Candet Nudatum Pectus in London, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library, MS 801A0
Pearl, Line 761: “Yor Worlde Wete”0
The Image of ‘Cheeks’ in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘The Loss of the Eurydice’0
‘Widow Dido’ and ‘Widower Aeneas’: Some Undeciphered Ribaldry in The Tempest0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1815–17: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
‘of Bath’: A Middle English Idiomatic Epithet0
Sir Peter Carew as the author of A Copye of a letter (1549) concerning the Western Rebellion0
Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power (eds), Early Shakespeare, 1588–15940
A Previously Unnoticed Copy of the Articles of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, 15280
Elijah Fenton’s Copy of Spenser’s Works (1679)0
Early and Earliest Uses of the Word ‘Newtonian’0
John Wilson Croker: An Early Unpublished Poem0
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply0
Alison Chapman, Networking the Nation: British and American Women’s Poetry and Italy, 1840–18700
Orlando’s Beard and Love Cures in As You Like It0
A Source for Robert Browning’s ‘A Likeness’0
Jennifer Richards, Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
Shall i Compare Thee? Sonnet 18 and Robert Greene’s Menaphon0
On the Sisyphus Fragment in Greene’s Selimus (1594)0
Hamlet and Poland0
Further Emendation of Piers Plowman C.3.1420
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