Site Summary, May 1, 2008

It has been quite some time since I have posted a site summary for Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, and while this one is certainly not exhaustive, since it does not include the numerous posts to the Works and Editors sections of the web site--which is saying quite a bit--it does include many of the posts made recently to the Contemporaries section and to a few other miscellaneous parts of the site.  Here are the links.  I hope some will find them interesting and useful.

• Central Coast Shakespeare Festival (San Luis Obispo, California)
• Rich, Jennifer. "The Merchant Formerly Known as Jew: Redefining the Rhetoric of Merchantry in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice". EMLS 13.3.
• Gorman, Sara. "The Theatricality of Transformation: cross-dressing, sexual misdemeanour and gender/sexuality spectra on the Elizabethan stage, Bridewell Hospital Court Records, and the Repertories of the Court of the Aldermen, 1574-1607". EMLS 13.3.
• Clement, Jennifer. "The Queen’s Voice: Elizabeth I’s Christian Prayers and Meditations". EMLS 13.3
• Much Ado About Nothing, Photo-Lithographed, By Express Permission, and under the Superintendence of Mr. H. Staunton, from The Matchless Original of 1600, In the Library of the Earl of Ellesmere, Day & Son, 1864, from GBS, full text and PDF.
• Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespear's Ending, by George Bernard Shaw, 1936, from Project Gutenberg (Australia).
• The Mirour for Magistrates, Vol. I: Part I by John Higgins; part II by Thomas Blenerhasset; Vol. II: Part III by Ferrers, Cavyll, Chaloner, Phaer, Baldwin, Skelton, Dolman, Sackville, Segar, Dingley, Churchyard, and Drayton; Part IV by Richard Niccols; ed. Joseph Haslewood, London, 1815, reprinted from the edition of 1587, collated with those of 1575 and 1610, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.
• Letters Written by John Chamberlain During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, ed. Sarah Williams, The Camden Society, 1861, from Google Book Search, full text and PDF.
• Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich from Project Gutenberg.
• The Court and times of James the First : illustrated by authentic and confidential letters, from various public and private collections, ed. Thomas Birch, Robert Williams, London, 1848, vol. I, vol. II, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.
• John Nichols, The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First, his royal consort, family, and court; collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., &c. ... Illustrated with notes, historical, topographical, biographical and bibliographical, vol. I, from Google Book Search, 1828.
• Basilikon Doron in A miscellany containing: Richard of Bury's Philobiblon, the Basilikon doron of King James I.; Monks and giants  ed. Henry Morley, 1888, from the Internet Archive, in various formats.
• The Political Works of James I, ed. C. H. McIlwain, Harvard, 1918, from GBS, full text and PDF.
• Demonology, from Forgotten Books at GBS, full text and PDF.
• Mountain Shakespeare Festival (Frazier Park, California)
• English Writers: an attempt towards a History of English Literature.
• Sonnets by Barnes in Specimens of English Sonnets, ed. Alexander Dyce, 1833, from GBS in full view and PDF.
• The Devil's Charter, ed. R. B. McKerrow, 1904, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• The Devils Charter, students facsimile edition, from the Dyce collection, 1913, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• The Poems of Barnaby Barnes, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1875, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I.
• Wikipedia article on Frances (Howard) Carr
• Article of Francis Howard from TudorPlace
• A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, compiled by T. B. Howell, vol. II, containing an account of both Frances Howard's annulment proceedings of 1613 and her murder trial of 1616.
• Article on Robert Carr from Wikipedia.
• DNB entry for Chamberlain, Leslie Stephen 1887.
• Letters Written by John Chamberlain During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, ed. Sarah Williams, The Camden Society, 1861, from Google Book Search, full text and PDF.
• A great popular biography of Coke is The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke: 1552 - 1634, by Catherine Drinker Bowen.  The book won the National Book Award when first published.
• Coke's 1628 Petition of Right.
• Article on Coke from TudorPlace.
• The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant, eds. James Maidment, W. H. Logan, 1872-74, from GBS in full view and PDF.
  • Volume the First
  • Volume the Second
  • Volume the Third
  • Volume the Fourth
  • Volume the Fifth (containing D'Avenant's Macbeth and The Tempest)
• Simon Forman in the Dictionary of National Biography (Leslie Stephen, 1889)
• Forman's eyewitness account of a production of Cymbeline in April-May, 1611: H. H. Furness' A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Cymbeline, J. B. Lippincott Company, London, 1913, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF, pp. 445-447.
• Forman's eyewitness account of a production of Macbeth, April 20, 1611: The New Variorum edition of Macbeth, ed. H. H. Furness, 1901, p. 356).
• DNB entry (Sidney Lee, 1908) for Henry Garnet
• John Gerard, S.J., What Was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested By Original Evidence, London, 1897; from GBS, full view and PDF.
• A Treatise of Equivocation, edited by David Jardine from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library [MS Laud Misc. 655], 1851, from the Internet Archive.
• Heywood resources from the Luminarium.
• The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author in Six Volumes, edited by R. H. Shepherd, John Pearson, 1874, GBS, full view and PDF.  The date given after the play title is the date on the title page, not necessarily the date of composition.  The [IA] in bold after each volume number is a link to the Internet Archive version.  This is the most current standard edition of the works of Heywood.
  • Vol. I [IA]
    • Memoir of Thomas Heywood;
    • Commendatory Poems;
    • The First and Second parts of King Edward the Fourth (1600);
    • The Second Part of King Edward the Fourth;
    • If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie ; or, The troubles of Queen Elizabeth (1605);
    • If you know not me, you know no body. The Second Part. (1632).
  • Vol. II [IA]
    • The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange;
    • A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse;
    • The Four Prentises of London. With the Conquest of Jerusalem (1615);
    • The Fair Maid of the West, or A Girle Worth Gold, The First Part (1631);
    • The Fair Maid of the West, of A Girle Worth Gold, The Second Part (1631);
  • Vol. III [IA]
    • The Golden Age : or The lives of Jupiter and Saturne, with the deifying of the Heathen Gods. (1610);
    • The Silver Age, Including The love of Jupiter to Alcmena : The birth of Hercules. And The Rape of Prosperine. Concluding, With the Arraignment of the Moone. (1613);
    • The Brazen Age The first Act containing, the death of the Centaure Nessus, The Second, The Tragedy of Meleager: The Third The Tragedy of Iason and Media. The Fourth. Vulcans Net. The Fifth. The Labours and death of Hercules (1613);
    • The Iron Age : Contayning the Rape of Hellen, &c. (1632);
    • The Second Part of the Iron Age Which contayneth the death of Penthesilea, Paris, Priam, and Hecuba : &c. (1632).
  • Vol. IV [IA]
    • The English Traveller (1633);
    • A Pleasant Comedy, called A Hayden-Head Well Lost (1634);
    • The late Lancashire Witches (1634);
    • Londons Ius Honorarium. Exprest in sundry Triumphs, pagiants, and shews : At the Initiation or Entrance of the Right Honourable George Whitmore, into the Maioralty of the famous and farre renouned City of London (1631);
    • Londini Sinus Salutis, or, Londons Harbour of Health, and Happinesse. Expressed in sundry Triumphs, Pageants and Showes ; at the Initiation of the Right Honorable, Christopher Clethrowe, Into the Maioralty of the farre Renowned City of London (1635);
    • Londini Speculum : or, Londons Mirror, Exprest in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, and Showes, at the Initiation of the right Honorable Richard Fenn, into the Mairolty of the Famous and farre renowned City of London (1637).
  • Vol. V [IA]
    • A Challenge for Beautie (1636);
    • Loves Maistresse : or, The Queens Masque (1636);
    • The Rape of Lucrece (1638);
    • Porta pietatis, or, The Port or Harbour of Piety. Exprest in sundry Triumphes, Pageants, and Showes, at the Initiation of the Right Honourable Sir Maurice Abbot, Knight, into the Maioralty of the famous and farre renowned City London (1638);
    • The Wise-woman of Hogsdon (1638);
    • Londini Status Pacatus : or, Londons Peaceable Estate. Esprest in sundry Triumphs, Pageants, and Shewes, at the Innitiation of the right Honhourable Henry Garway, into the Maioralty of the Famous and farre Renowned City London (1639).
  • Vol. VI [IA]
    • The Royall King, and The Loyall Subject (1637);
    • Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's, Selected Out Of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With Sundry Emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius (1637);
    • Fortune By Land and Sea. A Tragi-Comedy (1655).
      
• The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood with a Life of the Poet and Remarks on His Writings, Ed. J. Payne Collier, 1850 from GBS, full view and PDF.  Dates indicated after each play is the date on the title page of the edition herein presented.  Caution must be exercised when examining any work touched by J. P. Collier.
  • vol. I (1850) [IA]
    • The First Part of King Edward IV (1600);
    • The Second Part of King Edward IV;
    • The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange (1607);
    • Fortune by Land and Sea (1655);
    • The Fair Maid of the West, or A Girle Worth Gold. The first part (1631);
    • The Fair Maid of the West, or A Girle Worth Gold. The second part (1631).
  • vol. II (1851) [IA]
    • The Royall King, and The Loyall Subject (1637);
    • A Woman Kilde With Kindnesse (1607);
    • If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie; or, The Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (1605);
    • The second part of If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie. With the building of the Royal Exchange : and the Famous Victorie of Queen Elizabeth, in the Yeare 1588. (1606);
    • The Golden Age : or, The Lives of Jupiter and Saturne, with the defining of the Heathen Gods (1611);
    • The Silver Age, including The Love of Jupiter to Alcmena : The Birth of Hercules, and The Rape of Prosperine. Concluding with the Arraignment of the Moon. (1613).
• Thomas Heywood, ed. A. W. Verity, part of the Mermaid Series, general editor Havelock Ellis, "The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists", 1888 from GBS, full view and PDF.  This volume is also available in several copies at the Internet Archive.
  • A Woman Killed with Kindness;
  • The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1;
  • The English Traveller;
  • The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon;
  • The Rape of Lucrece.
• A Woman Killed with Kindness, ed. F. J. Cox, 1907, from GBS in full view and PDF.
• A Woman Killed with Kindness, and The Fair Maid of the West, ed. K. L. Bates, 1917, from GBS in full view and PDF.
• The Captives, ed. Alexander Corbin Judson, 1921 from GBS in full view and PDF.  Authorship disputed.
• The fair maid of the west, or, A girle worth gold : the first part, as it was lately acted before the King and Queen, with approved liking, by the Queens Majesties comedians. London : Printed for Richard Royston ... , 1631. In Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library; facsimile edition from SCETI, University of Pennsylvania.
• Love's Mistress: or, The Queen's Masque, ed. Edmund Goldsmid, 1886 from GBS in full view and PDF.
• How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, vol. 9, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1874, GBS, full view and PDF.
• Nicholas Hilliard's "Young Man Among Roses"
• Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London : Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. In Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library.  The is the facsimile edition in its entirety.  There is a handy drop-down menu at the top of the frame to quickly jump to sections of the work by monarch, from William I to Elizabeth I.
• Wikipedia article on Holinshed.
• "Holinshed, Raphael," in Dictionary of National Biography, v. 9, ed. Sidney Lee, 1908, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• The Works of Raphael Holinshed at Project Gutenberg.
• Shakspere's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared, W. G. Boswell-Stone, 1896, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions and Notes, Harvard Classics, vol. 35, 1910, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• Article on Thomas Howard from TudorPlace.
• Article on Howard from TudorPlace.
• Article on Inigo Jones in the BBC "Historic Figures" series.
• "Inigo Jones" from NNDB.
• Article on Overbury from NNDB.
• Overbury's A Wife, the poem that gained Overbury posthumous fame and proved enormously popular with moralists and male sexists of every stripe from 1613 through the remainder of the reign of James, the reign of Charles I, and even through the Commonwealth.
• The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., ed. E. R. Rimbault, 1856, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• Article on Sir Francis Walsingham from the Luminarium Encyclopedia Project.
• Walsingham is portrayed by Geoffrey Rush (none too accurately) in Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett.  The film won the Academy Award in 1998.
• He is also portrayed by Patrick Malahide in the better Elizabeth I, with Helen Mirren as the Queen and Jeremy Irons as Dudley.
• He appears, this time personated by Stephan Murray, in the great, 1970 Elizabeth R, with Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth and Robert Hardy as Dudley.
• In print, he appears in the great Anthony Burgess' A Dead Man in Deptford, (the last novel published during Burgess' lifetime, who also published a novel on the early life and loves of Shakespeare, Nothing Like the Sun, and a Shakespeare Biography).
• Wikipedia article on Sir Henry Wotton.
• The Life of Sir Henry Wotton, by Izaak Walton, transcribed by Irene C. Teas, from Project Canterbury.
• Sir Henry Wotton, from TudorPlace.
• The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, by Logan Pearsall Smith, Clarendon, 1907, in two volumes: vol. I, vol. II.
• Anonymous. THE CHESTER PLAYS: A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIES FOUNDED UPON SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS, AND FORMERLY REPRESENTED BY THE TRADES OF CHESTER AT WHITSUNTIDE. EDITED BY THOMAS WRIGHT, ( LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY. 1843, in Amyot, Thomas, et al. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. I. [London]: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1853.
• Anonymous.  LUDUS COVENTRIAE. A Collection of Mysteries FORMERLY REPRESENTED AT COVENTRY ON THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI. EDITED BY JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY, 1841, in Amyot, Thomas, et al. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. II. [London]: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1853.
• "Holinshed, Raphael," in Dictionary of National Biography, v. 9, ed. Sidney Lee, 1908, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• The Works of Raphael Holinshed at Project Gutenberg.
• Shakspere's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared, W. G. Boswell-Stone, 1896, from GBS, full view and PDF.
• Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions and Notes, Harvard Classics, vol. 35, 1910, from GBS, full view and PDF.

• The Taming of A Shrew, ed. Thomas Amyot, in Amyot, Thomas, et al. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays, Vol. IV, [London]: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1853, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.

• Facsimile edition (The Tudor Facsimile Texts) of the 1596 quarto (there was a 1594 printing) of The taming of a shrew. 1596 (1912), from the Internet Archive.

• Brooke's 'Romeus and Juliet,': Being the Original of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', "newly edited" by J. J. Munro, 1908, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.

• Lodge's Rosalynde: Being the Original of Shakespeare's As You Like It, ed. W. W. Greg, 1907, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.

• The True Chronicle history of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, the anonymous King Leir in modern spelling. Transcribed by Barboura Flues. Edited for the web by Robert Brazil, from Elizabethan Authors.

• Facsimile edition (The Tudor Facsimile Texts) of The true chronicle history of King Leir. 1605 (1910), from the Internet Archive.

• The Chronicle History of King Leir: The Original of Shakespeare's King Lear, editied by Sidney Lee, 1909, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.

• The Troublesome raigne of John, King of England : the first quarto, 1591, which Shakspere rewrote (about 1595) as his "Life and death of King John" : part II : a facsimile, by photolithography, from the unique original in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge (1888), by Charles Praetorius, from the Internet Archive.

• Facsimile edition (The Tudor Facsimile Texts) of The troublesome reign of John, king of England. 1591 (1911), from the Internet Archive.

• The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl.

Comments

[Dennis Blackmore]

This is great information for us amateurs looking for good works.