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Reed and Warton on the Old Wives Tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Robert H. Wilson
Robert H. Wilson*
Affiliation:
Howard College
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PMLA , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , June 1940 , pp. 605 - 608
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1940

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References

1 W. W. Greg, ed., The Old Wives Tale, 1595, Malone Society (Oxford Univ. Press, 1908), pp. v–vi.

2 See A. H. Bullen, The Works of George Peele (London, 1888), i, 299; C. M. Gayley, Representative English Comedies, i (New York, 1930), 383; A. W. Verity, Cornus (Cambridge, 1927), pp. xxix–xxx.

3 Poems upon Several Occasions . . . by John Milton (London, 1785), p. 126.

4 Ibid., p. 127.

5 Ibid., pp. 591–593.

6 T. Larsen, “The Growth of the Peele Canon,” The Library, xi (1930), 305–306.

7 Isaac Reed, ed., David Erskine Baker, Biographia Dramatica (London, 1782), ii, 436 ff.

8 Ibid., p. 262.

9 Biographia Dramatica, ed. Stephen Jones (London, 1812), iii, 97. The only change in wording is the substitution of “us” for “me” in the first sentence of the summary.

10 Warton, op. cit., p. 593. Larsen, op. cit., p. 306.

11 Op. cit., p. 306.

12 Printed in John Wooll, Biographical Memoirs of . . . Joseph Warton (London, 1806), p. 398.

13 To avoid confusion, italics and small capitals in the originals have been suppressed. But the brackets are those of Reed and Warton.

14 Greg, op. cit., p. vii and passim.

15 Ibid., p. ix and passim.

16 Ibid., facsimile title page opposite p. [x]. Correctly, “Wives” should be spelled with a u, “plaied” with a y, “John” (both appearances) with an I, “Ralph” without the l; “G. P.” and the names of printer and booksellers should be italicized; there should be periods after “Tale” and “Hardie,” and a comma after “Hancocke.”

17 Ibid., ll. 729–731.