Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

  • Stubbs, Philip, active 1581-1593.
Date:
1877-1882
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Credit: Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    promist to return to that work which- has won him so sound a reputation, and done so much service to Shakspere students. Clear as he had always been from those shameful forgeries which have been the curse of Shakspere biography and text- criticism for nearly fourty jmars, Mr Halliwell-Phillipps had begun putting the crown to his labours, by the publication of his many-5^ears’ fresh gleanings in his Illustrations of the Life of Shaksj^ere. But after the publication of its first Part, he announc’t that he should abandon it. Happily he has chang’d his mind, feeling that he has no right to keep to himself material that must he useful to other students of Shakspere. He is now preparing the Second Part of his Illustrations. § 2. The Society’s Publications for 1875 were mentiond in the last Report; and after its date the issue of one of the books, then considerd doubtful, was securd. The Texts for 1875 were:— In Series II. Plays:—Mr P. A. Daniel’s revis’d edition of Romeo and Juliet (bas’t on the Quarto of 1599), with an In- troduction, and full critical notes on the Text. Henry V: a. Facsimile Reprints of the Quarto and First Folio, edited by Dr Brinsley Nicholson. In Series I. Transactions:—Part II of the Transactions for 1874, completing the volume. Part I of the Transaetions for 1875-6. In Series III. Originals and Analogues:—Part I. a. The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Ar[thur] Br[ooke], 1562 ; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq.; b. The goodly hystory of the true and constant lone between Rhomeo and Julietta; from Painter’s Palace of Pleasure, 1567 ; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq.^ In 1876 came Dr Brinsley Nicholson’s illness; and the preparation of the intended main hook of the year, the Parallel- Texts of the Quarto and Folio of Henry V, was necessarily given up. The Committee therefore determind to open a new branch of the Society’s work, to start its Sixth Series, that on Shalcspere's England, being certain that this would appeal to a large non-dramatic class of readers, the students of History and Sociology, as well as to our own Members, to whom everything of Shakspere’s time is welcome. The Director s 1 Mr J. O. Ilalliwoll prosontod to the Society GOO copies of Mr A. II. Paget’s pamphlet, “Shakespeare’s Plays: a Chapter of Stage His- tory',” 1875; and one was sent to every' Member. (These coihes are now exhausted.) Mr. Furnivall’s gift of a copy of his Introduction to Ger- vinuB, to every Member, still continues.