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Two books with the title The Editing of Old English were published in 1994, this one and a collection of essays by me (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995). Neither the editors of [...]

This article examines allusions to Sir John Harrington, English translator of Ariosto, in John Davies of Hereford's 'Paper's Complaint', which was published in 1611. The author presents his case for Harrington being the most likely candidate, rather than Shakespeare and Ben Jonson being the two contrasting geniuses of the age.

Seven articles on Hardyng's Chronicle have appeared since 1980, which in relative terms, describes a positive renaissance in the field.(1) Unfortunately, this new level of interest has not been accompanied [...]

This volume contains a small selection of the papers read at the eighth ICEHL conference in Edinburgh 1994. The volume is divided into sections on phonology, morphology, lexis, syntax, and [...]

Michael Slater has already done the Dickens state some service, and we know it. This edition, at its half-way point, is placing all students of Dickens and Victorian Britain more [...]

This is a well-written and perceptive account of the relationship between print culture and the position of Charles II. Weber argues that there was a fluid realm of discourse and [...]

It is difficult to appraise fairly an essay collection of this size in the short space allocated. These are nineteen papers presented at the Second Munster Symposium on Swift in [...]

The publication of proceedings of a conference are always a very mixed bag of things. This volume, the proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on Elizabethan theatre at the University [...]

DRAWING upon his past experience as fight choreographer for the Utah and Oregon Shakespearian festivals, Edelman contends that swordfighting sequences deserve as much regard as other scenes since they not [...]

This article examines the Bodleian manuscript of Edmund Waller's poem 'Of a Tree cut in Paper'. The author suggests that the annotator of the poem is Waller's biographer John Aubrey.

Piers Plowman B XV 417 -28a that is a stand-alone passage, point clear, having minor variants and appears only in the B version is discussed. Many of the interpretators and confusions that are expected from Langland disappear from the earliest stages of the longer versions of Piers Plowman.

This collection draws attention to the basic truth that editors and compilers had a significant influence on the content of their travel texts, leading in some cases to a remoulding [...]

BACK TO THE MANUSCRIPTS: Papers from the Symposium 'The Integrated Approach to Manuscript Studies: A New Horizon Held at the Eighth General Meeting of the Japan Society for Medieval English [...]