On "momtanish inhumanyty" in Sir Thomas More

Studies in Philology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-185

  Wentersdorf, Karl P ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (34)

1. Sir Thomas More, ed. Dyce (London: Shakespeare Society, 1844), 29
2. Dyce's reading is adopted in Sir Thomas More: A Play by Anthony Munday and Others, ed. Vittorio Gabrieli and Giorgio Melchiori (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), 104
3. The Shakespeare Apocrypha, ed. Brooke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908; repr. 1971), 395, 436
4. The Book of Sir Thomas More, ed. Greg (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Malone Society, 1911; repr. 1967), 78
5. Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More, intro. A. W. Pollard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923; repr. together with Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967]), 214, [241]
6. Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. Harrison (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958), 1658-61
7. Karl P. Wentersdorf, "A Crux in the Putative Shakespearian Addition to Sir Thomas More," English Language Notes 10 (1972): 8-10
8. The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. Evans et al. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 1696. The notes are repeated verbatim in the second edition, 1997
9. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, 2nd ed. 2005), 822
10. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Wells et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987; repr. with corrections 1997), 467, 463n
11. The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition, ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. (New York: Norton, 1997), 2018
12. The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed., gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), 24: in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim Knight is praised for having fought against the infidels in Russia, Lithuania and Prussia; he had campaigned against the Moors in Spain and Morocco; he had also done outstanding service in Alexandria as well as "Agayn another hethen inTurkye" (I.43-72)
13. Edward Hall, The Vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (London, 1548, 1550), f. (Kyng Henry the.vi.) 84V
14. Liturgies and Occasional Forms of Prayer Set forth in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, ed. William K. Clay (Cambridge, 1847), 519-35
15. The Works of Edmund Spenser: Spenser's Prose Works, ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 460
16. For example, Thomas Newton, A notable historie of the Saracens ... as also of the Turks, Sonldans, Mamalukes (London, 1575)
17. The Mahumetame or Turkish Historie, trans. Ralph Carr (London, 1584?)
18. Richard Knolles, The generall historie of the Turkes (London, 1603)
19. Knolles, Historie, ff. 494-504, 919, 1056-57
20. Knolles also reported, f. 922, that when a new shah was enthroned in Persia (Iran) in 1576, he ordered his eight younger brothers beheaded
21. Foxe, Acts and Monuments, 4th ed., ed. and rev. Josiah Pratt, 8 vols. (London, 1877), 3:171, 4:79-88. The nature of the slaughters, described in horrific detail, left (as verbal echoes reveal) a lasting impression on later Elizabethan writers
22. The Palace of Pleasure, ed. Joseph Haslewood, 3 vols. (London, 1813): "Mahomet and Hyerene," 1:176-83
23. "Mustapha," 3:663-83
24. Greville, "A Treatise of Monarchy," in The Remains, ed. G. A. Wilkes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965), 137 #410:4-6; 154 #475:5; 179 #574:1-6. Greville's play Mustapha stages Suleyman I's murder of his own son and heir
25. Bacon, The Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall, ed. Michael Kiernan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 39, 41
26. The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Minor Poems, ed. Charles G. Osgood et al., 2 vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1947), 2:265, Sonnet 3:13; 2:507
27. The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. Fredson Bowers, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 1:116
28. v. TLN or Through Line Numbering is a system of reference based on the lines of the original printed text, rather than those of a modern version with editorial arrangement and numbering of act, scenes, and lines
29. Shakespeare (with the riot episode from More) is cited from The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed., ed. G. Blakemore Evans and J. J. M.Tobin, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
30. See also The Case is Alter'd in The Works of Ben ]onson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson, 11 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), 3:166. Count Ferneze orders Maximilian to be silent, and he replies: "I'll tell thee, if Amurath the great Turke were here I would speak."
31. Chambers, "Shakespeare and the Play of More" in Man's Unconquerable Mind (London: Jonathan Cape, 1939), 204-49
32. Wentersdorf, "Linkages of Thought and Imagery in Shakespeare and More," Modern Language Quarterly 34 (1973): 384-405; for an overview of the linkage elements, see 402
33. The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charles Hinman, new intro. Peter M. Blayney (New York: Norton, 1996), 821-22, 828
34. Lord Byron, The Complete Poetical Works, ed. Jerome J. McGann, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), 2:129