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E. G. Stanley
A Festschrift for Bruce Mitchell
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on August 11, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 257; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn120 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Alfred Bammesberger
Grendel's Ancestry
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 257-260; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn112 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heide Estes
A Note on Solomon and Saturn I, Lines 107B–108A
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 260-262; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rhona Beare
Did Goscelin Write the Earliest Life of Edward the Confessor?
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 262-265; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn076 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacob Thaisen
The Merchant, the Squire, and Gamelyn in the Christ Church Chaucer Manuscript
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 265-269; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Shepherd
A Wycliffite Bible Possibly Owned by Sir Henry Spelman and Ole Worm
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 269-273; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn078 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Breeze
Art ‘Direction’ in St Erkenwald
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 273; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn065 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz
‘Go to Jericho’ Revisited: Privacy or Perdition?
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 273-275; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn117 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valerie Creelman
Margaret Paston's Use of Captenesse
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 26, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 275-277; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn114 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cristina Maria Cervone
Christ the Falcon
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 277-282; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sophie Tomlinson
A Jacobean Dramatic Usage of ‘Actress’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 11, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 282-283; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Garth Bond
Expanding the Canon of Lady Mary Wroth's Poetry
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 283-286; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn064 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Illingworth
A Printing Error in Milton's Colasterion and its Implications
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 286-287; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Pickering
Unidentified First Use of Self-esteem: Milton's An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 287-289; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn100 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian McAdam
Milton, Satan, Galileo, and Gunpowder
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 289-291; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn072 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian C. Parker
Marvell's ‘A Dialogue between the Soul and Body’: Probable Sources and Implications
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 291-299; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn099 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian C. Parker
Marvell and the ‘Tygress Fell’: A Supplementary Note
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 299-300; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn077 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward J. Davies
Jane Innes, Wife of Governor Thomas Pitt
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 301-303; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alvin L. Baker
A Vindication of Creech's Horace and Dryden's Good Name
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 303-305; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn062 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver R. Baker
Cribbage in Tunbridge Wells
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 305-306; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn061 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sheldon Rogers
The Ancestry of Daniel Defoe
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 306-308; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn103 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Womersley
Pope, Welsted, Denham, and Beer
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 26, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 308-309; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn080 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Pritchard
Alexander Pope at the Savoy
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 309-314; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn101 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kathryn Walls
Pope's Essay on Criticism, ll. 205–6: A Source in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 315-316; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn110 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adrian Lashmore-Davies
A Hitherto Incomplete Letter from Sir William Trumbull to Alexander Pope
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 11, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 316-319; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Pritchard
Jonathan Swift and the Duke of Savoy
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 319-326; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shef Rogers
An Extra Echo to Swift's Epigraph for Gulliver's Travels (1735)
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on August 13, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 326; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Van Den Berg
Thomas Morgan and Alberto Radicati di Passerano, A Non-existing Relationship
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 326-328; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn108 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Considine
Darby and Joan and the Athenian Mercury
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 328-329; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn067 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jon Charles Miller
The Possible Sources for Hume's Comment Regarding Euripides’ Double-Marriage in of Polygamy and Divorces
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 329-330; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn073 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

F. D. A. Burns
William Shenstone's ‘Ode to Health’ 1750
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 330-331; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn066 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas D. Nace
Aaron Hill in Richardson's Clarissa
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 331-333; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert G. Walker
The Irishman's ‘Three Halves’: A Note on Richardson's Grandison
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 333-335; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lance Bertelsen
The Performance History of Christopher Smart's Abimelech
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 335-336; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1780–82: A Supplement to the Union List
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 337-345; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur Sherbo
Forgotten Letters: Thomas Jefferson, Bishop Percy, Bishop Law, William Beckford, James Madison [Not the President]
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 345-348; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn105 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur Sherbo
Thomas Pearne, of Peterhouse, Cambridge: Shakespeare Critic
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 348-354; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn106 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W. C. MacKenzie and Niall MacKenzie
Two Mistranslations in Nicolson's Gaelic Proverbs
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 26, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 354-357; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anthea Fraser Gupta
English Words from the Malay World
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 357-360; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin Wilcockson
‘One Foot in the Grave’: Antedating the Oxford English Dictionary
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 360; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn079 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews Back

Colin Leach
MATTHEW WRIGHT, Euripides’ Escape-Tragedies: a Study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigeneia among the Taurians.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 360-362; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn122 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E. G. Stanley
FREDERICK KLAEBER (ed.), Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsbirg, edited, with a Foreword by Helen Damico, by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles, 4th edn.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on August 11, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 362-363; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn119 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kirk Combe
RUBEN QUINTERO (ed.), A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 28, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 364-365; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn093 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonia Forster
JAMES RAVEN, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 365-366; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn094 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael G. Brennan
CLAIRE JOWITT (ed.), Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550–1650.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 20, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 366-368; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn087 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Proctor Williams
LUCAS ERNE (ed.), The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 368-369; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn084 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Happé
BEATRICE GROVES, Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592–1604.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 369-371; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn085 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Hyland
CHARLOTTE SCOTT, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 371-372; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn121 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miwa Saito
ANDREA BRADY, English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 372-373; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn082 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas MacFaul
CHRISTOPHER TILMOUTH, Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 373-375; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn098 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sárka Kühnová
LUISA CALÈ, Fuseli's Milton Gallery: ‘Turning Readers into Spectators’.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 375-376; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn083 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charlotte Livingstone
JOHN MARTIN, Beyond Belief: The Real Life of Daniel Defoe.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 376-378; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn088 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennie Batchelor
SUSAN STAVES, A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 378-379; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Valdimir Price
LOUISE BARNETT, Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 379-380; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn081 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Philp
JANE HODSON, Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 23, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 380-382; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. S. White
STUART SILLARS, Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720–1820.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 382-383; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn095 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sinéad Sturgeon
JULIE NASH (ed.), New Essays on Maria Edgeworth.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 26, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 383-384; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn091 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Walker
MARGARET MILLS HARPER, Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 385-386; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn090 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. S. White
SCOTT L. NEWSTOK (ed.), Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 386-387; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn092 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy Black
E. J. CLERY, The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 387-388; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn089 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Books Received
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on July 11, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 388-392; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn111 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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