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The Text of Alinda’s Song ‘I am not proud’ in John Fletcher’s “The Pilgrim”, IV.ii.
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1992)
Whatever John Fletcher's failings as a dramatist, there is general agreement that he was a master of song-writing. It is perplexing, therefore, to see Cyrus Hoy, in his authoritative edition of the play, produce a version ...
‘A jail, a jail’ in Dekker’s "2 Honest Whore”,
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1996)
The text of Thomas Dekker's '2 Honest Whore' contains a number of errors which one would expect in a quarto of this kind - in essence publishing errors. This brief paper discusses one such error, crediting Alexander Dyce ...
Punctuating “The Changeling”
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1989)
"The Changeling" was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley in 1622. No manuscript of the play survives, and the earliest printed version dates from 1653, several years after both dramatists had died. The publication ...
The Text of “King Lear” 2.2.136-145 in the ‘Arden 3’ Edition
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2002)
This paper considers the nature of R. A. Foakes's approach to editing 'King Lear', and how the latest Arden edition may be improved so as to bring it closer to what Shakespeare is likely to have written.
Emending “The Changeling”
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1989)
This article offers further discussion of considerations arising from editing "The Changeling": an earlier article entitled 'Punctuating "The Changeling"' examined punctuation in the F.W. Bawcutt edition of 1958, while ...
Bibliography, Criticism, and the Problem of “Doctor Faustus”
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1991)
The question confronting the editor of 'Doctor Faustus' has revolved around whether to trust the short A text of the play which appeared in 1604, or the much longer version, B, of 1616.
The changeling
(A&C Black, London, 2005)
The Changeling, a play written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley in 1622, offers a picture of the operation of folly and madness within the mind. In doing so it explores 'abnormal' mental states. While the focus is ...
“Doctor Faustus” and the Colossus of Rhodes
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1986)
Editing Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" continues to pose a formidable difficulty for modern scholars.
Breaking the Rules: Editorial Problems in Dekker and Middleton's "The Honest Whore, Part I".
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1996)
The immediate aim of this article is three-fold: to give a reappraisal of some of the most important evidence relating to the textual history of "The Honest Whore, Part I" (STC 6501, 6501a, 6502); to present new evidence ...
Madness in Jasper Heywood's 1560 version of Seneca's Thyestes
(CML Inc, Indiana, 1996)
The Roman tragedian Seneca is generally, and rightly, considered to have made a profound impact on the dramatists of the English Renaissance. As his work preceded theirs by many centuries (he lived from A.D. 1-65), and as ...