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E. G. Stanley
The Troy Legend Concorded
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 115; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn057 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E. G. Stanley
A Festschrift for John Scattergood
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 115-116; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes Back

George Hardin Brown
Quotations in Bede's Exegetical Commentaries Misinterpreted as Autobiographical
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 116-117; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfred Bammesberger
Is There an Old English Adjective Scrid ‘Swift’?
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 117-119; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicole Marafioti
The Siðgeomor Speaker and his Sources, in Cynewulf's The Fates of the Apostles
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 119-122; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jane Roberts
The Finnsburh Fragment, and its Lambeth Provenance
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 122-124; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Burrow
Piers Plowman B XIII 190
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 124-125; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisi Oliver
Æthelberht's Fedesl Revisited
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 125-126; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn060 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. S. G. Edwards
The Kingis Quair, Line 1189
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 126-127; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lawrence Warner
Latin Verses by John Gower and ‘John of Bridlington’ in a Piers Plowman Manuscript (Bl Add. 35287)
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 127-131; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Sayers
At Fours and Fives: Carfax and Quincunx
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 131-134; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carole Hough
An Ante-Dating of the OED Entry for Nanny ‘Goat’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 134-135; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Levin
Early Modern English ‘Back’: Erotic But Not Phallic Uses
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 135-136; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christine F. Cooper-Rompato
Sugar-Cane: Antedating the Entry in the Oxford English Dictionary
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 136-137; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben Parsons
Mary of Nemegen, Lawrence Clopper and the English Saint Play
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 137-139; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jordi Sánchez-Martí
Robert Copland and The Lyfe of Ipomydon
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 30, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 139-142; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miranda Kaufmann
Sir Pedro Negro: What Colour was His Skin?
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 142-146; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Stephan Edwards
A Further Note on the Date of Birth of Lady Jane Grey
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 146-148; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barrett L. Beer
Robert Crowley and Cooper's Chronicle: The Unauthorized Edition of 1559
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 148-152; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnd Bohm
Seneca's Influence on the Construction of Bajazeth in Marlowe's Tamburlaine
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 152-154; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Hillman
Marlowe's Guise: Offending Against God and King
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 154-159; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Butler
‘Pricking’ and Ambiguity at the Start of The Faerie Queene
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 159-161; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James H. Runsdorf
Weaker Vessels: Spenser's Abessa and Propertius's Tarpeia
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 9, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 161-165; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Fleck
Early Modern Marginalia In Spenser's Faerie Queene at the Folger
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 165-170; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjm120 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

P. B. Roberts
An Allusion to Leicester in the Terrors of the Night
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 170-171; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjm144 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D. C. Andersson
‘Embarke, But Under Caution’: A New Elizabethan Masque Fragment
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 171-175; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn059 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard F. Kennedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream II.I.157: A Proposed Emendation
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 176; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Flood
‘It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain’: Isaiah 45:8 and The Merchant of Venice IV.1.181
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 176-177; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Doloff
Falstaff's ‘Honour’: Homeric Burlesque in 1 Henry IV (1597–8)
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 177-181; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher M. McDonough
‘A Mere Scutcheon’: Falstaff as Rhipsaspis
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 181-183; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger Bourke
Falstaff, Nobody, and Will Kemp's ‘Giant Hose’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 183-185; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joaquim Anyó
More on the Sources of Much Ado About Nothing
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 185-187; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Hammond
A Textual Crux in Shakespeare's Sonnet 46
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 187-188; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MacD. P. Jackson
Great Troy Shrieking: Troilus and Cressida, III.iii.136
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 9, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 188-191; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenji Go
On the Origin of the ‘common houses’ as Brothels in Measure for Measure
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 30, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 191-194; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David George
Two New Sources For Coriolanus
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 194-197; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Merriam
Shakespeare's Use of ‘Holy Water’ is Not Typical of Playwrights of his Time
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 197-201; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Herbert W. Benario
Shakespearean Debt to Tacitus’ Histories
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 202-205; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Golz
The Winter's Tale: Parodic Wordplay in the Play and its Title
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 205-208; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David McInnis
Old World Sources For Ariel in The Tempest
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 30, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 208-213; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Merriam
A Fletcher Interpolation in Henry VIII, II.iii
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 30, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 213-215; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Hornback
Blackfaced Fools, Black-Headed Birds, Fool Synonyms, and Shakespearean Allusions to Renaissance Blackface Folly
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 215-219; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Gurr
More Shakespearean Playgoers
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 30, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 219-221; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anthony James West
Constantijn Huygens Owned a Shakespeare First Folio
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 221-222; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Gastric Wordplay in A King and No King 1.1
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 222-223; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Nicol
The Date of The Thracian Wonder
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 223-225; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Greer
Sir Robert Ayton's Translation of a Poem by Guarini
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 225-227; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews Back

S. J. Harrison
ROBERT DEMARIA, JR. and ROBERT D. BROWN (eds), Classical Literature and its Reception: An Anthology.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 9, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 227-228; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natasha Distiller
MICHAEL SCHOENFELDT (ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets. • DYMPNA CALLAGHAN. Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 228-232; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom MacFaul
GAVIN ALEXANDER, Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586–1640.
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 232-233; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B. J. Sokol
BRIAN C. LOCKEY, Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 17, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 233-236; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Proctor Williams
KAREN BRITLAND, Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 10, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 236-238; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas McDowell
MARCUS NEVITT, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 238-239; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. F. T. Lurcock
PAUL BAINES and PAT ROGERS, Edmund Curll, Bookseller.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 239-240; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Warren Oakley
W. B. GERARD, Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 240-242; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tanya Gokulsing
JOHN G. PETERS, The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. • ALLA H. SIMMONS, Joseph Conrad.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 242-243; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin Leach
CHRISTOPHER STRAY (ed.), Gilbert Murray Reassessed: Hellenism, Theatre, & International Politics.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 10, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 243-245; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Baines
JOHN HAFFENDEN, William Empson. Vol II: Against the Christians. • WILLIAM EMPSON, Selected Letters of William Empson, ed. John Haffenden.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 245-247; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kristin Ewins
CATHERINE CLAY, British Women Writers 1914–1945: Professional Work and Friendship.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 2, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 247-248; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received Back

Books Received
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 248-255; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum Back

Erratum
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on April 17, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 255; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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