University of Virginia Library

Fredson Thayer Bowers: A Checklist and Chronology
by
Martin C. Battestin [*]

Books

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. x, 288 pp. Reprints: Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1959; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, 1969, 1971 (paperback), with an added "Postscript." Excerpts reprinted: Pages 177-179, in Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Norman Rabkin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968), pp. 100-101. Pages 228-234, in Shakespeare's Contemporaries, ed. Max Bluestone and Norman Rabkin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961), pp. 295-300 (as "James Shirley: Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy and The Cardinal"); 2nd edition (1970), pp. 406-411; also in The Elizabethan Dramatists, Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (New Haven: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 245-250 (as "The Decadence of Revenge Tragedy").

Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. xviii, 506 pp. Reprints: New York: Russell and Russell, 1962 etc.; Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1986 (paperback), 1987 (hardcover and paperback). Excerpts reprinted: Definitions from p. 407 as poster "Issue & State in Modern Books" (Chicago: Beasley Books, [1982]). [An early version of the sample description on pp. 480-484 appeared as "Description of the Six Impressions of Washington Irving's Wolfert's Roost," a six-page mimeographed handout to accompany FTB's talk "Some Problems and Practices in Bibliographical Descriptions of Modern Authors" at the inaugural meeting of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 26 February 1947.] Translation: Excerpt

("A Digest of the Formulary" [pp. 457-462]) in Italian by Conor Fahy as "Compendio del formulario," La Bibliofilia, 94 (1992), 103-110. [Served as basis for Akira Takano, Yōsho no hanashi ("A Story of European Books"). Tokyo: Maruzen, 1991. iv, 218 pp.]

On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists. Philadelphia: Published for the Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1955. x, 132 pp. [The Rosenbach Lectures, 21, 28 April, and 5 May 1954: Lecture I, "The Texts and the Manuscripts"; II, "The Function of Textual Criticism and Bibliography"; III, "The Method for a Critical Edition."] Reprint: Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1966 (hardcover and paperback). xii, 210 pp. [With added Postscript and Lectures IV, "What Shakespeare Wrote" (1962), and V, "Today's Shakespeare Texts, and Tomorrow's" (1966).]

Textual and Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. x, 186 pp. [The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University, 20-22 January 1958: Lecture I, "Textual Criticism and the Literary Critic" (reprinted in FTB's Essays [1975], pp. 296-325); II, "The Walt Whitman Manuscripts of Leaves of Grass (1860)"; III, "The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare." Lecture IV, "Principle and Practice in the Editing of Early Dramatic Texts," read before the Bibliographical Society, London, 23 January 1958.] Reprint: 1966 (hardcover and paperback). Translation: In Japanese by Sachiho Tanaka. Tokyo: Chuou Shoin, 1983. vi, 262 pp.

Bibliography and Textual Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. xii, 208 pp. [The Lyell Lectures, Oxford, 28 April, 5, 12, 19, 26 May, and 2 June 1959: Lecture I, "Analytical and Textual Bibliography"; II, "The Treatment of Evidence"; III, "The Interpretation of Evidence: The Demonstrable and Probable"; IV, "The Interpretation of Evidence: The Probable"; V, "The Interpretation of Evidence: The Possible"; VI, "The Copy for the Folio Othello" (reprinted as "The Folio Othello: Compositor E" in FTB's Essays [1975], pp. 326-358).] Reprint: 1966.

Hamlet: An Outline-Guide to the Play. Barnes & Noble Focus Books #706. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965 (hardcover and paperback). iv, 124 pp. Adaptation: By the publishers, as William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Barnes & Noble Book Notes #836, 1967 (paperback). 88 pp. [Both versions reprint excerpts from pp. 53-55 of FTB's "The Moment of Final Suspense in Hamlet: 'We Defy Augury'" (1964).]

Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing, with a Foreword by Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1975. viii, 550 pp. [A collection of articles arranged in four sections: (1) The

Bibliographical Way: "Bibliography and the University" (1949); "Some Relations of Bibliography to Editorial Problems" (1949); "Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and Literary Studies" (1952); "The Bibliographical Way" (1958); "Bibliography and Modern Librarianship" (1966); "Four Faces of Bibliography" (1971). (2) Descriptive Bibliography: "Purposes of Descriptive Bibliography, with Some Remarks on Methods" (1952); "Bibliography and Restoration Drama" (1966); "Bibliography Revisited" (1969). (3) Analytical Bibliography: "The Headline in Early Books" (1941); "An Examination of the Method of Proof Correction in King Lear Q1" (1947); "Elizabethan Proofing" (1948); "Running-Title Evidence for Determining Half-Sheet Imposition" (1948); "Bibliographical Evidence from the Printer's Measure" (1949); "Motteux's Love's a Jest (1696): A Running-Title and Presswork Problem" (1954). (4) Textual Criticism and Editing: "Current Theories of Copy-Text, with an Illustration from Dryden" (1950); "Old-Spelling Editions of Dramatic Texts" (1957); "Textual Criticism and the Literary Critic" (1958); "The Folio Othello: Compositor E" (1959); "Established Texts and Definitive Editions" (1962); "The Text of Johnson" (1964); "Old Wine in New Bottles: Problems of Machine Printing" (1966); "Practical Texts and Definitive Editions" (1968); "The Facsimile of Whitman's Blue Book" (1969); "Multiple Authority: New Problems and Concepts of Copy-Text" (1972); "Remarks on Eclectic Texts" (1973).]

Hamlet as Minister and Scourge and Other Studies in Shakespeare and Milton. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. xvi, 240 pp. [A collection of the following articles: "Death in Victory: Shakespeare's Tragic Reconciliations" (1967); "Climax and Protagonist in Shakespeare's Dramatic Structure" (1982); "Shakespeare's Art: The Point of View" (1964); "Shakespeare's Dramatic Vagueness" (1963); "Hamlet as Minister and Scourge" (1955); "Hamlet's Fifth Soliloquy" (1962); "The Moment of Final Suspense in Hamlet: 'We Defy Augury'" (1964); "The Death of Hamlet: A Study in Plot and Character" (1959); "Dramatic Structure and Criticism: Plot in Hamlet" (1964); "Hamlet's 'Sullied' or 'Solid' Flesh: A Bibliographical Case History" (1956); "The Structure of King Lear" (1980); "Theme and Structure in King Henry IV, Part I" (1970) [also incorporating "Hal and Francis in King Henry IV, Part I" (1966)]; "Milton's Samson Agonistes: Justice and Reconciliation" (1978).]

Pamphlets

A Supplement to the Woodward and McManaway Check List of English Plays 1641-1700. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1949. 22 pp.

George Sandys: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Printed Editions in England to 1700 (with Richard Beale Davis). New York: New York Public Library, 1950. 54 pp. [Reprinted from BNYPL; see below, 1950.]

The Bibliographical Way. University of Kansas Publications: Library Series, 7. Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1959. 34 pp. [The Sixth of the Annual Public Lectures on Books and Bibliography, University of Kansas, read at Lawrence, 14 November 1958. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 54-74.]

Bibliography. Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, 7 May 1966, by Fredson Bowers and Lyle H. Wright. Introd. by Hugh G. Dick. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1966. vi, 54 pp. "Bibliography and Restoration Drama," pp. 1-25. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 135-150.]

Bibliography and Modern Librarianship. Berkeley: School of Librarianship; Los Angeles: School of Library Service, University of California, 1966. iv, 28 pp. [Read as the Zeitlin-VerBrugge Lecture in Bibliography, Los Angeles, 9 May; and as the Howell Lecture, Berkeley, 10 May 1966. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 75-93.]

Two Lectures on Editing: Shakespeare and Hawthorne. By Charlton Hinman and Fredson Bowers. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969. 70 pp. "Practical Texts and Definitive Editions," pp. 21-70. [Read at the Ohio State University, 16 February 1968, at the invitation of the Center for Textual Studies and the Department of English. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 412-439.] Excerpt: "Definitive vs Practical Editions," CEAA [Center for Editions of American Authors, Modern Language Association] Newsletter, No. 2 (July 1969), 14.

Editions

The Fary Knight or Oberon the Second: A Manuscript Play Attributed to Thomas Randolph. University of Virginia Studies, 2. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1942. xlii, 88 pp.

Studies in Bibliography, 1 (1948) to 45 (1992). [Volume 1 as: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.]

English Studies in Honor of James Southall Wilson. University of Virginia Studies, 4 [i.e. 5] (1951). [vi], 298 pp. [Including "The Faerie Queene, Book II: Mordant, Ruddymane, and the Nymph's Well," pp. 243-251.]

The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953-1961. 4 vols.

• Vol. I (1953). Sir Thomas More, The Shoemakers' Holiday, Old Fortunatus, Patient Grissil, Satiromastix, Sir Thomas Wyatt. xviii, 470 pp. Reprints: 1962, 1970.
• Vol. II (1955). The Honest Whore (Parts 1-2), The Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Whore of Babylon. viii, 592 pp. Reprint: 1964.
• Vol. III (1958). The Roaring Girl, If This Be Not a Good Play the Devil

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  Is in It, Troia-Nova Triumphans, Match Me in London, The Virgin Martyr, The Witch of Edmonton, The Wonder of a Kingdom. iv, 650 pp. Reprint: 1966. Excerpt: Textual Introduction to The Virgin Martyr in Evidence for Authorship: Essays on Problems of Attribution, ed. David V. Erdman and Ephim G. Fogel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966), pp. 224-228.
• Vol. IV (1961). The Sun's Darling, Britannia's Honor, London's Tempe, Lust's Dominion, The Noble Spanish Soldier, The Welsh Embassador; Corrections and Revisions of Volumes I-III. viii, 418 pp. Reprint: 1968.

Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass (1860), A Parallel Text. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. lxxiv, 264 pp. Reprint: 1969.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Pelican Shakespeare AB24, general editor, Alfred Harbage. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1963. 132 pp. Reprint: In Alfred Harbage, general editor, William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Penguin Books, 1969, pp. 335-364.

The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1962-1988. 20 vols. Textual Editor, Vols. I-XI; General Textual Editor, Vols. XII-XX:

• Vol. I (1962). The Scarlet Letter, with an Introduction by William Charvat. lxviii, 290 pp. Reprints: 1968, 1971, 1978, 1983.
• Vol. II (1965). The House of the Seven Gables, with an Introduction by William Charvat. lxvi, 418 pp. Reprint: 1971.
• Vol. III (1964). The Blithdale Romance and Fanshawe, with an Introduction by Roy Harvey Pearce. lviii, 502 pp. Reprints: 1965, 1971.
• Vol. IV (1968). The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, with an Introduction by Claude M. Simpson. cxl, 612 pp. Reprint: 1971.
• Vol. V (1970). Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches, with an Introduction by Claude M. Simpson. cxvi, 498 pp.
• Vol. VI (1972). True Stories from History and Biography, with an Historical Introduction by Roy Harvey Pearce. x, 370 pp.
• Vol. VII (1972). A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales. xii, 464 pp.
• Vol. VIII (1972). The American Notebooks, edited by Claude M. Simpson. xiv, 836 pp.
• Vol. IX (1974). Twice-Told Tales, with an Historical Commentary by J. Donald Crowley. xii, 638 pp.
• Vol. X (1974). Mosses from an Old Manse, with an Historical Commentary by J. Donald Crowley. x, 664 pp.
• Vol. XI (1974). The Snow Image and Uncollected Tales, with an Historical Commentary by J. Donald Crowley. xii, 488 pp.

The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966- . 10 vols. General Editor, with Robert Kean Turner, Cyrus Hoy, George Walton Williams, L. A. Beaurline, Irby B. Cauthen, Jr., Hans Walter Gabler.

• Vol. I (1966), xxvi, 670 pp. Foreword and General Textual Introduction, pp. vii-xxv; The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, pp. 111-144.
• Vol. II (1970), viii, 696 pp. Cupid's Revenge, pp. 315-448.
• Vol. III (1976), viii, 612 pp. Beggars Bush, pp. 225-362.
• Vol. IV (1979), viii, 646 pp. The Womans Prize, pp. 1-148.
• Vol. V (1982), viii, 670 pp. The Loyal Subject, pp. 151-288.
• Vol. VI (1985), viii, 606 pp. The Wild-Goose Chase, pp. 225-354.
• Vol. VII (1989), viii, 744 pp. Henry VIII, pp. 3-144; Two Noble Kinsmen, pp. 145-298.
• Vol. VIII (1992), viii, 758 pp. The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, pp. 483-632.
• Vol. IX [forthcoming]. The Sea Voyage, The Maid in the Mill, and The Elder Brother.
• Vol. X [in progress]. The Fair Maid of the Inn.

John Dryden: Four Tragedies, with L. A. Beaurline. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1967. x, 412 pp. The Indian Emperour, Aureng-Zebe, All for Love, Don Sebastian.

John Dryden: Four Comedies, with L. A. Beaurline. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1967. x, 368 pp. Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-All, An Evening's Love, Marriage-a-la-Mode.

John Dewey: The Early Works, 1882-1898, edited by Jo Ann Boydston et al. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press; London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, 1967-1972. 5 vols. Consulting Textual Editor of this edition: Textual principles and procedures, in II (1967), ix-xix; I (1969), ix-xix, revised; III (1969), l-lx; IV (1971), xli-li, revised; V (1972), cxviii-cxxix.

The Middle Works, 1899-1924, edited by Jo Ann Boydston et al. 1976-1983. 15 vols. Textual Consultant for this edition: Textual Principles and Procedures, in I (1976), 347-360, revised. [This essay, slightly revised in 1982, is included in John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953, edited by Jo Ann Boydston et al. 1981-1900. 17 vols.: II (1984), 407-418.]

The University of Virginia Edition of the Works of Stephen Crane. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969-1976. 10 vols.

• Vol. I (1969). Bowery Tales: Maggie and George's Mother, with Introductions by James B. Colvert. xcviii, 186 pp.
• Vol. II (1975). The Red Badge of Courage, with an Introduction by J. C. Levenson. xcii, 424 pp.
• Vol. III (1976). The Third Violet and Active Service, with an Introduction by J. C. Levenson. lxii, 492 pp.
• Vol. IV (1971). The O'Ruddy, with an Introduction by J. C. Levenson. lxxiv, 362 pp.

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• Vol. V (1970). Tales of Adventure, with an Introduction by J. C. Levenson. cxcvi, 242 pp.
• Vol. VI (1970). Tales of War, with an Introduction by James B. Colvert. cxcii, 402 pp.
• Vol. VII (1969). Tales of Whilomville, with an Introduction by J. C. Levenson. lx, 278 pp.
• Vol. VIII (1973). Tales, Sketches, and Reports, with an Introduction by Edwin H. Cady, xlii, 1184 pp.
• Vol. IX (1971). Reports of War, with an Introduction by James B. Colvert. xxx, 678 pp.
• Vol. X (1975). Poems and Literary Remains, with an Introduction by James B. Colvert. xxx, 384 pp.

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.2 vols. Second edition, revised, 1981.

• Vol. I.Dido, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, The Massacre at Paris. xii, 418 pp.
• Vol. II. Edward II, Doctor Faustus, The First Book of Lucan Translated into English, Ovid's Elegies, Hero and Leander, Miscellaneous Pieces. vi, 542 pp.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript. A Bruccoli Clark Book. Washington, D.C.: NCR/Microcard Editions, 1972-1973. 2 vols.

• Vol. I (1973). Introduction and Apparatus. xiv, 124 pp.
• Vol. II (1972). The Manuscript. viii, 264 pp.

The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967- .9 vols. to date. Consulting Textual Editor for the following volumes:

• Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin C. Battestin (1967). [Textual Introduction, pp xxxix-xlvii.] Reprints: Wesleyan Paperback, 1984; text only, in Joseph Andrews and Shamela, ed. Douglas Brooks-Davies, Oxford English Novels, 1970; World's Classics (paperback), 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 (twice), 1990 (twice).
• Miscellanies, Volume One, edited by Henry Knight Miller (1972). [Textual Introduction, pp. l-lv.]
• The History of Tom Jones a Foundling. [See below.]
• The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings, edited by W. B. Coley (1975). [Textual Introduction, pp. lxxxiii-lxxxix; Appendix IV, Bibliographical Descriptions, pp. 437-440.]
• Amelia, edited by Martin C. Battestin (1983). [Textual Introduction, pp. lxii-lxxx; Appendix VII, Bibliographical Descriptions, pp. 583-591; Appendix VIII, Press-Variants in the First Edition (1752), pp. 592-595.] Reprint: Wesleyan Paperback, 1984.

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• An Enquiry into the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings, edited by Malvin R. Zirker (1988). [Textual Introduction, pp. cxv-cxxii.]

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones a Foundling, with Introduction and Commentary by Martin C. Battestin. The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.2 vols. lxxxiv, 522; 1080 pp. [With map and six Plates.] Reprints: With revisions, in one volume, with critical Introduction and Commentary by Martin C. Battestin. Wesleyan Paperback, 1975. xxx, 994 pp.; 1977, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992; Wesleyan University Press [for Book-of-the-Month Club], with illustrations and slip-case by Warren Chappell, 1982; text and commentary only, New York: Modern Library, 1985.

The Works of William James. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Published for the American Council of Learned Societies by Harvard University Press, 1975-88. 19 vols. Textual Editor.

• Pragmatism, with an Introduction by H. S. Thayer (1975). xxxviii, 316 pp. Reprint: With The Meaning of Truth, with an Introduction by A. J. Ayer, 1978 (paperback).
• The Meaning of Truth, with an Introduction by H. S. Thayer (1975). xlvi, 328 pp. Reprint: With Pragmatism, with an Introduction by A. J. Ayer, 1978 (paperback).
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, with an Introduction by John J. McDermott (1976). xlviii, 318 pp.
• A Pluralistic Universe, with an Introduction by Richard J. Bernstein (1977). xxx, 488 pp.
• Essays in Philosophy, with an Introduction by John J. McDermott (1978). xxxvi, 410 pp.
• The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, with an Introduction by Edward H. Madden (1979). xxxviii, 490 pp.
• Some Problems of Philosophy, with an Introduction by Peter H. Hare (1979). xlii, 464 pp.
• The Principles of Psychology, with Introductions by Gerald E. Myers and Rand B. Evans (1981). 3 vols. lxviii, 650; 1296; 1740 pp. Reprint: Text only, with an Introduction by George A. Miller, 1983 (paperback). xxii, 1302 pp.
• Vols. I-II. Introductions and Text.
• Vol. III. Notes, Appendixes, Apparatus, Index.
• Essays in Religion and Morality, with an Introduction by John J. McDermott (1982). xxviii, 346 pp.
• Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals, with an Introduction by Gerald E. Meyers (1983). xxviii, 334 pp.
• Essays in Psychology, with an Introduction by William R. Woodward (1983). xlii, 468 pp.

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• Psychology: Briefer Course, with an Introduction by Michael M. Sokal (1984). xliv, 554 pp.
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, with an Introduction by John E. Smith (1985). lii, 670 pp.
• Essays in Psychical Research, with an Introduction by Robert A. McDermott (1986). xxxviii, 684 pp.
• Essays, Comments, and Reviews, with an Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1987). xlii, 786 pp.
• Manuscript Essays and Notes, with an Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1988). l, 550 pp.
• Manuscript Lectures, with an Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1988). lxiv, 686 pp.

Vladimir Nabokov. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980-1983. 3 vols.

• Lectures on Literature [on Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson], with an Introduction by John Updike (1980). xxx, 386 pp. Reprints: New York: Harvest paperback, 1982; London: Picador paperback, 1983. Translations: In French by Hélène Pasquier. Paris: Fayard, 1983; reissued, Librairie générale française, 1987 (paperback). In German by Karl A. Klewer. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1983; reissued as Fischer Taschenbuch, 1991. In Italian by E. Capriolo. Milan: Garzanti, 1982. In Spanish by Francisco Torres Oliver. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1983; reissued 1987. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1984.
• Lectures on Russian Literature [on Chekhov, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, Tolstoy, Turgenev], with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982). xx, 332 pp. Reprints: New York: Harvest paperback, 1982; London: Picador paperback, 1983. Translations: In French by Marie-Odile Fortier-Masek. Paris: Fayard, 1985; reissued, Librairie générale française, 1988 (paperback). In German by Karl A. Klewer. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1984; reissued as Fischer Taschenbuch, 1991. In Italian by E. Capriolo. Milan: Garzanti, 1987. In Spanish. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1984. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1985.
• Lectures on Don Quixote, with an Introduction by Guy Davenport (1983). xx, 220 pp. Reprint: New York: Harvest paperback, c. 1983. Translations: In French by Hélène Pasquier. Paris: Fayard, 1986; reissued, Librairie générale française, [1989?] (paperback). In German by Friedrich Polako. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1985; reissued as Fischer Taschenbuch, 1991. In Italian by E. Albinati. Milan: Garzanti, 1989. In Spanish by María Luisa Balseiro. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1987.

Leon Kroll: A Spoken Memoir, with Nancy Hale. Published for the University of Virginia Art Museum by the University Press of Virginia. Charlottesville, 1983. xx, 140 pp. [Frontispiece and 163 Plates. Pages 101-122,

"Leon Kroll: On Art and Related Topics," edited by David B. Lawall; pages 130-133, "Selected Bibliography," by Willa Kay Lawall.]

Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 58. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. xxii, 370 pp. [Including "Foreword," pp. ix-xx.]

Elizabethan Dramatists, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 62. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. xxii, 492 pp. [Including "Foreword," pp. ix-xx, and "Appendix: The Publication of English Renaissance Plays," pp. 406-416.]

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991- . Consulting Textual Editor.

The Great Gatsby, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). 288 pp.

The Correspondence of William James. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992- .12 vols. Consulting Textual Editor.

Contributions to Serials and Books

• 1930
• "An Addition to the Breton Canon," Modern Language Notes, 45 (March 1930), 161-166.
• 1931
• "Kyd's Pedringano: Sources and Parallels," Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 13 (1931), 241-249.
• 1932
• "The Stabbing of a Portrait in Elizabethan Tragedy," Modern Language Notes, 47 (June 1932), 378-385.
• 1933

• "Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, and the Ur-Hamlet," Modern Language Notes, 48 (February 1933), 101-108.

  "The Date and Composition of Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany," Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 15 (1933), 165-189.

• 1934

• "The Audience and the Revenger of Elizabethan Tragedy," Studies in Philology, 31 (April 1934), 160-175.

  "Notes on Gascoigne's A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres and The Posies," Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 16 (1934), 13-35.

• 1935
• "A History of Elizabethan Revengeful Tragedy," Summaries of Theses Accepted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of

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  Doctor of Philosophy 1934 (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1935), pp. 304-308.
• 1936

• "Dekker and Jonson," Times Literary Supplement, 12 September 1936, p. 729.

  "Bibliographical Problems in Dekker's Magnificent Entertainment," The Library, 4th ser., 17 (December 1936), 333-339.

• 1937

• "Middleton's Fair Quarrel and the Duelling Code," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 36 (January 1937), 40-65.

  "Gascoigne and the Oxford Cipher," Modern Language Notes, 52 (March 1937), 183-186.

  "The Date of Revenge for Honour," Modern Language Notes, 52 (March 1937), 192-196.

  "The Fairy Knight," Times Literary Supplement, 17 April 1937, p. 292.

  "Henry Howard Earl of Northampton and Duelling in England," Englische Studien, 71 (June 1937), 350-355.

  "Ben Jonson the Actor," Studies in Philology, 34 (July 1937), 392-406.

  "Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, and The Drinking Academy," Notes & Queries, 173 (4 September 1937), 166-168.

  "The Audience and the Poisoners of Elizabethan Tragedy," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 36 (October 1937), 491-504.

  "Thomas Dekker: Two Textual Notes," The Library, 4th ser., 18 (December 1937), 338-341.

  "Dekkar [sic] and 'Shoemaker's Holiday,'" New York Times, 26 December 1937, sec. X, p. 3.

• 1938

• "Problems in Thomas Randolph's Drinking Academy and Its Manuscript," Huntington Library Quarterly, 1 (January 1938), 189-198.

  "Glapthorne's Revenge for Honour," Review of English Studies, 14 (July 1938), 329-330. [Letter to the editor.]

  "A Note on The Spanish Tragedy," Modern Language Notes, 53 (December 1938), 590-591.

  "Notes on Running-Titles as Bibliographical Evidence," The Library, 4th ser., 19 (December 1938), 315-338.

• 1939

• "A Sixteenth-Century Plough Monday Play Cast," Review of English Studies, 15 (April 1939), 192-194.

  "An Interpretation of Donne's Tenth Elegy," Modern Language Notes, 54 (April 1939), 280-282.

  [Review of Shakespeare's Influence on the Drama of His Age Studied in 'Hamlet,' by D. J. McGinn], Modern Language Notes, 54 (April 1939), 314-315.

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  "A Possible Randolph Holograph," The Library, 4th ser., 20 (September 1939), 159-162.

  "Marriott's Two Editions of Randolph's Aristippus," The Library, 4th ser., 20 (September 1939), 163-166.

• 1941
• "Thomas Nashe and the Picaresque Novel," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf. University of Virginia Studies, 1 (1941), 12-27.
• 1942

• "Thomas Randolph's Salting," Modern Philology, 39 (February 1942), 275-280.

  [Review of Repetition in Shakespeare's Plays, by P. V. Kreider; The Character of Hamlet and Other Essays, by J. E. Hankins; The Life and Works of George Turberville, by J. E. Hankins; The Poems of Sir John Davies, ed. C. Howard; John Donne, Ignatius His Conclave, ed. C. M. Coffin; Divine Vengeance: A Study in the Philosophical Backgrounds of the Revenge Motif as It Appears in Shakespeare's Chronicle History Plays, by Sister Mary Bonaventure Mroz; The Elizabethan Sermon, A Survey and a Bibliography, by A. F. Herr; Robert Gould, Seventeenth Century Satirist, by E. H. Sloane], Modern Language Notes, 57 (June 1942), 468-473.

  "The Headline in Early Books," in English Institute Annual, 1941 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942), pp. 185-205; reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1965. [Read before the English Institute, Columbia University, 9 September 1941. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 199-211.]

• 1945
• "Evidences of Revision in The Faerie Queene, III.i,ii," Modern Language Notes, 60 (February 1945), 114-116.
• 1946

• "Bibliographical Miscellanea," The Library, 5th ser., 1 (September 1946), 131-134.

  "Notes on Standing Type in Elizabethan Printing," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 40 (Third Quarter 1946), 205-224.

• 1947

• "An Examination of the Method of Proof Correction in Lear," The Library, 5th ser., 2 (June 1947), 20-44. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 212-239, as "An Examination of the Method of Proof Correction in King Lear Q1."]

  "Criteria for Classifying Hand-Printed Books as Issues and Variant States," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 41 (Fourth Quarter 1947), 271-292.

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• 1948

• "The First Series of Plays Published by Francis Kirkman," The Library, 5th ser., 2 (March 1948), 289-291.

  "Two Notes on Running-Titles as Bibliographical Evidence," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 42 (Second Quarter 1948), 143-148.

  "Bibliographical Evidence from a Resetting in Caryll's Sir Salomon (1691)," The Library, 5th ser., 3 (September 1948), 134-137.

  "Certain Basic Problems in Descriptive Bibliography," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 42 (Third Quarter 1948), 211-228. [Read at a meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, Philadelphia, 5 June 1948.]

  [Concluding section (pp. 206-212) of] Richard Beale Davis, "George Sandys v. William Stansby: The 1632 Edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis," The Library, 5th ser., 3 (December 1948), 193-212.

  [Letter to the Editor], Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 42 (Fourth Quarter 1948), 341-343. [Replying to P. S. Dunkin's discussion of article in PBSA (1947), above.]

  "Elizabethan Proofing," in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948), pp. 571-586. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 240-253.]

  "Running-Title Evidence for Determining Half-Sheet Imposition," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [Studies in Bibliography], 1 (1948-49), 199-202. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 254-257.]

• 1949

• "The Cancel Leaf in Congreve's Double Dealer 1694," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 43 (First Quarter 1949), 78-82.

  "Variants in Early Editions of Dryden's Plays," Harvard Library Bulletin, 3 (Spring 1949), 278-288.

  "Thomas d'Urfey's Comical History of Don Quixote 1694," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 43 (Second Quarter 1949), 191-195.

  "Thomas Dekker, Robert Wilson, and The Shoemakers Holiday," Modern Language Notes, 64 (December 1949), 517-519.

  "Printing Evidence in Wynkyn de Worde's Edition of The Life of Johan Picus by St. Thomas More," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 43 (Fourth Quarter 1949), 398-399.

  "Bibliography and the University," University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle, 15 (1949), 37-51. [Read at the University of Pennsylvania, 13 May 1949. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 3-14.]

  "The Wits," in Strickland Gibson, A Bibliography of Francis Kirkman, with his Prefaces, Dedications, and Commendations (1652-80). Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, n.s., 1, fascicle ii for 1947 (1949), 135-139.

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  "Bibliographical Evidence from the Printer's Measure," Studies in Bibliography, 2 (1949-50), 153-167. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 258-268.]

• 1950

• "A Late Appearance of 'Cornwall' for 'Cornhill,'" Notes & Queries, 195 (4 March 1950), 97-98.

  "Nathaniel Lee: Three Probable Seventeenth-Century Piracies," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 44 (First Quarter 1950), 62-66.

  [With Richard Beale Davis] "George Sandys: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Printed Editions in England to 1700," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 54 (April-June 1950), 159-181, 223-244, 280-286. [For reprint, see above under "Pamphlets."]

  "The First Edition of Dryden's Wild Gallant 1669," The Library, 5th ser., 5 (June 1950), 51-54.

  "The Prologue to Nathaniel Lee's Mithridates, 1678," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 44 (Seecond Quarter 1950), 173-175.

  [Review of Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, ed. B. Dickins and A. N. L. Munby, 1.1 (1949)], Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 44 (Second Quarter 1950), 196-198.

  [Review of "The King's Printers, 1660-1742," by A. F. Johnson, an article in The Library, 5th ser., 3 (1948), 33-38], Philological Quarterly, 29 (July 1950), 238.

  "Current Theories of Copy-Text, with an Illustration from Dryden," Modern Philology, 48 (August 1950), 12-20. [Reprinted (hardcover and paperback) in Bibliography and Textual Criticism: English and American Literature, 1700 to the Present, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Warner Barnes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 59-72; and in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 277-288.]

  [Review of Shakespeare's Producing Hand: A Study of His Marks of Expression To Be Found in the First Folio, by R. Flatter], Modern Philology, 48 (August 1950), 64-68.

  "The Supposed Cancel in Southerne's The Disappointment Reconsidered," The Library, 5th ser., 5 (September 1950), 140-149. [See FTB's correspondence "Southerne's The Disappointment," The Library, 6th ser., 3 (December 1981), 347.]

  "A Crux in the Text of Lee's Princess of Cleve 1689, II.i," Harvard Library Bulletin, 4 (Autumn 1950), 409-411.

  [Articles in] Collier's Encyclopedia (New York: Collier, 1950): "Thomas Dekker," 6: 349; "The Shoemakers' Holiday," 17: 559; "Thomas Nashe," 14: 371-372; "The Unfortunate Traveller," 19: 18.

  "Some Relations of Bibliography to Editorial Problems," Studies in Bibliography, 3 (1950-51), 37-62. [Read before the English Institute, Columbia University, 9 September 1949. Reprinted in A Mirror for Modern Scholars: Essays in Methods of Research in Literature, ed. Lester A. Beaurline

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  (Indianapolis and New York: Odyssey Press, 1966 etc.), pp. 16-39; and in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 15-36.]

  [With Lucy Clark] "A Selective Check-List of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1949: Part II, Later Renaissance to the Present," Studies in Bibliography, 3 (1950-51), 295-302.

• 1951

• "Studies in Bibliography," Times Literary Supplement, 18 May 1951, p. 309 [Letter to the editor concerning SB.]

  "The First Editions of Sir Robert Stapylton's The Slighted Maid (1663), and The Step-Mother (1664)," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 45 (Second Quarter 1951), 143-148.

  [Review of Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, ed. B. Dickins and A. N. L. Munby, 1.2 (1950)], Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 45 (Second Quarter 1951), 172-175.

  "Robert Roberts: A Printer of Shakespeare's Fourth Folio," Shakespeare Quarterly, 2 (July 1951), 241-246.

  [Review of Shakespeare's King Lear: A Critical Edition, ed. G. I. Duthie], Modern Language Quarterly, 12 (September 1951), 363-364.

  "The 1665 Manuscript of Dryden's Indian Emperour," Studies in Philology, 48 (October 1951), 738-760.

  "The Revolution in Shakespeare Criticism," University of Chicago Magazine, November 1951, pp. 11-14.

  "The Two Issues of d'Urfey's Cynthia and Endymion 1697," Princeton University Library Chronicle, 13 (1951), 32-34.

  "The Variant Sheets in John Banks's Cyrus the Great, 1696," Studies in Bibliography, 4 (1951-52), 174-182.

• 1952

• "The Text of Marlowe's Faustus," Modern Philology, 49 (February 1952), 195-204. [Review of W. W. Greg's editions Doctor Faustus, 1604-1616: Parallel Texts and The Tragical History. . .: A Conjectural Reconstruction.]

  "American Bibliographical Studies," Times Literary Supplement, 9 May 1952, p. 313. [Letter to the editor concerning SB.]

  "The Pictures in Hamlet, III.iv: A Possible Contemporary Reference," Shakespeare Quarterly, 3 (July 1952), 280-281.

  [Review of The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright, ed. G. B. Evans], Modern Philology, 50 (August 1952), 60-64.

  "Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and Literary Studies," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 46 (Third Quarter 1952), 186-208. [Read at a joint meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America and the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 9 May 1952. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 37-53. Excerpt (from pp. 198-199) reprinted in The Dictes and Sayings of the Bibliographers

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  ([Clayton, Victoria, Australia]: Ancora Press, Monash University, 1986 [actually 1989]), p. 10.

  "Essex's Rebellion and Dekker's Old Fortunatus," Review of English Studies, n.s., 3 (October 1952), 365-366.

  "The Problem of the Variant Forme in a Facsimile Edition," The Library, 5th ser., 7 (December 1952), 262-272.

  "The Pirated Quarto of Dryden's State of Innocence," Studies in Bibliography, 5 (1952-53), 166-169.

• 1953

• "A Note on Hamlet I.v.33 and II.ii.181," Shakespeare Quarterly, 4 (January 1953), 51-56.

  "Purposes of Descriptive Bibliography, with Some Remarks on Methods," The Library, 5th ser., 8 (March 1953), 1-22. [Read before the Bibliographical Society, London, 18 November 1952. Reprinted in Readings in Descriptive Bibliography, ed. John Bush Jones (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1974), pp. 12-41; and in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 111-134.]

  "Dryden as Laureate: The Cancel Leaf in King Arthur," Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 1953, p. 244.

  [Review of Jonson's Masque of Gipsies in the Burley, Belvoir, and Windsor Versions: An Attempt at Reconstruction, ed. W. W. Greg], Review of English Studies, n.s., 4 (April 1953), 172-177.

  [Review of King Lear (New Arden Edition), ed. K. Muir], Shakespeare Quarterly, 4 (October 1953), 471-477.

  [Review of The Composition of Shakespeare's Plays: Authorship, Chronology, by A. Feuillerat], Modern Philology, 51 (November 1953), 132-135.

  "Ogilby's Coronation Entertainment (1661-1689): Editions and Issues," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 47 (Fourth Quarter 1953), 339-355.

  "The Manuscript of Whitman's 'Passage to India,'" Modern Philology, 51 (November 1953), 102-117.

  "A Definitive Text of Shakespeare: Problems and Methods," in Studies in Shakespeare, ed. Arthur D. Matthews and Clark M. Emery (Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1953), pp. 11-29.

  "Shakespeare's Text and the Bibliographical Method," Studies in Bibliography, 6 ([1953-1954), 71-91. [Read at Bedford College, University of London, 4 March 1953.]

  "Whitman's Manuscripts for the Original 'Calamus' Poems," Studies in Bibliography, 6 ([1953]-1954), 257-265.

• 1954

• [Review of An Evening with William Shakespeare with an All Star Cast, direction and narration by M. Webster], Shakespeare Quarterly, 5 (Summer 1954), 330-331.

  "The Manuscript of Walt Whitman's 'A Carol of Harvest, for 1867,'" Modern

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  Philology, 52 (August 1954), 29-51. [Reprinted for private circulation by C. Waller Barrett.]

  "Scholarship, Research, and the Undergraduate Teacher," Bulletin of Randolph-Macon College, 26 (September, 1954), 3-4, 20-23. [The 1954 Randolph-Macon (Ashland, Va.) Phi Beta Kappa Address.]

  "Motteux's Love's a Jest (1696): A Running-Title and Presswork Problem," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 48 (Third Quarter 1954), 268-273. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 269-274.]

  "Underprinting in Mary Pix, The Spanish Wives (1696)," The Library, 5th ser., 9 (December 1954), 248-254.

  "Further Observations on Locke's Two Treatises of Government: Three Contributions by Fredson Bowers [pp. 63-78], Johan Gerritsen and Peter Laslett," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2.1 (1954), 63-87.

• 1955

• "The Printing of Hamlet, Q2," Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 41-50. ["Addendum" in Studies in Bibliography, 8 (1956,) 267-268.]

  "The Cambridge Edition of Dekker," The Library, 5th ser., 10 (June 1955), 130-133. [Letter to the editor concerning Arthur Brown's review of the Dekker edition.]

  "McKerrow's Editorial Principles for Shakespeare Reconsidered," Shakespeare Quarterly, 6 (Summer 1955), 309-324. [Read at the English Institute, 17 September 1954.]

  "The Yale Folio Facsimile and Scholarship," Modern Philology, 53 (August 1955), 50-57. [Review of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A Facsimile Edition, ed. H. Kökeritz.]

  "Hamlet as Minister and Scourge," PMLA, 70 (September 1955), 740-749. [Read before the Shakespeare Section of the Modern Language Association of America, December 1954. Cited in the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Issue of PMLA [73.5.2 (December 1958), 61] as one of eight Shakespearean articles in the journal in the past seventy-five years "which have really affected the course of scholarship and criticism." Reprinted in Twentieth Century Interpretations of Hamlet, ed. David Bevington (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968), pp. 82-92; also in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 90-101. For FTB's videotaped lecture based on this essay, see below, 1990.]

  "Another Early Edition of Thomas Jevon's Devil of a Wife," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 49 (Third Quarter 1955), 253-254.

• 1956

• "The Textual Relation of Q2 to Q1 Hamlet (I)," Studies in Bibliography, 8 (1956), 39-66.

  "The Manuscripts of Whitman's 'Song of the Redwood-Tree,'" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 50 (First Quarter 1956), 53-85.

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  [Review of The Works of Nathaniel Lee, ed. T. B. Stroup and A. L. Cooke], Philological Quarterly, 35 (July 1956), 310-314.

  "Hamlet's 'Sullied' or 'Solid' Flesh: A Bibliographical Case-History," Shakespeare Survey, 9 (1956), 44-48. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 155-162.]

• 1957

• [Review of New Readings in Shakespeare, by C. J. Sisson], Modern Language Quarterly, 18 (June 1957), 156-157.

  "The Earliest Manuscript of Whitman's 'Passage to India' and Its Notebook," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 61 (July 1957), 319-352.

• 1958

• [Review of Shakespeare, Henry the Fifth (1606); Love's Labour's Lost (1598). Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, ed. W. W. Greg], Modern Language Review, 53 (April 1958), 235-236.

  "Old-Spelling Editions of Dramatic Texts," in Studies in Honor of T. W. Baldwin, ed. Don C. Allen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958), pp. 9-15. [Read before the English Drama Section of the Modern Language Association of America, University of Wisconsin, 10 September 1957. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 289-295.]

• 1959

• [Review of Samuel Johnson: Diaries, Prayers, and Annals, ed. E. L. McAdam, Jr., with Donald and Mary Hyde], Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 58 (January 1959), 132-137.

  "The Function of Bibliography," Library Trends, 7 (April 1959), 497-510.

  [Review of Shakespeare, The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (Henry VI, Part III), 1595. Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, ed. W. W. Greg], Modern Language Review, 54 (April 1959), 297.

  [Review of Thomas J. Wise and the Pre-Restoration Drama, by D. F. Foxon], Times Literary Supplement, 5 June 1959, p. 344. [Unsigned.]

  [Contribution to the obituary tribute "Walter Wilson Greg, 9 July 1875-4 March 1959"], The Library, 5th ser., 14 (September 1959), 171-173.

  "The Copy for the Folio Richard III," Shakespeare Quarterly, 10 (Autumn 1959), 541-544.

  [Review of The Copy for the Folio Text of Richard III; with a Note on the Copy for the Folio Text of King Lear, by J. K. Walton], Shakespeare Quarterly, 10 (Winter 1959), 91-96.

  "The Death of Hamlet: A Study in Plot and Character," in Studies in the English Renaissance Drama: In Memory of Karl Julius Holzknecht, ed. Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, and Vernon Hall, Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 1959), pp. 28-42. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 123-136.]

  "Textual Criticism," Encyclopaedia Britannica (1959), 22: 13-19.

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• 1960

• "The Business of Criticism," Virginia Quarterly Review, 36 (Winter 1960), 151-154. [Review of The Business of Criticism, by H. Gardner.]

  [Review of The Early Collected Editions of Shelley's Poems, by C. H. Taylor, Jr.], Keats-Shelley Journal, 9 (Winter 1960), 35-38.

  "Bibliography," Encyclopaedia Britannica (1960), 3: 539-543.

• 1961

• [Review of Printing in London from 1476 to Modern Times: Competitive Practice and Technical Invention in the Trade of Book and Bible Printing, Periodical Production, Jobbing, by P. M. Handover], Modern Language Quarterly, 22 (June 1961), 214.

  "A Bibliographical History of the Fletcher-Betterton Play, The Prophetess, 1690," The Library, 5th ser., 16 (September 1961), 169-175.

  "The Business of Teaching," The Graduate Journal, 4 (Fall 1961), 389-405.

  "Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959)," in The American Philosophical Society Year Book 1960 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1961), pp. 143-147.

• 1962

• "Established Texts and Definitive Editions," in Studies in English Drama Presented to Baldwin Maxwell, ed. Charles B. Woods and Curt A. Zimansky, Philological Quarterly, 41 (January 1962), 1-17. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 359-374.]

  "Herbert's Sequential Imagery: 'The Temper,'" Modern Philology, 59 (February 1962), 202-213. [Reprinted in Essential Articles for the Study of George Herbert's Poetry, ed. John R. Roberts (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979), pp. 231-248.]

  "William Faulkner, 1897-1962," University of Virginia Topics, Summer, 1962, [p. 2].

  "Henry Vaughan's Multiple Time Scheme," Modern Language Quarterly, 23 (December 1962), 291-296. [Reprinted in Essential Articles for the Study of Henry Vaughan, ed. Alan Rudrum (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1987), pp. 91-97.]

  "Classical Antecedents of Elizabethan Drama," Tennessee Studies in Literature, 7 (1962), 79-85. [Read at a meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 1961.]

  "Hamlet's Fifth Soliloquy, 3.2.406-417," in Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama in Honor of Hardin Craig, ed. Richard Hosley (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1962), pp. 213-222. [The Annual Phi Beta Kappa Address, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., 12 April 1962. Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 102-113.]

  "The Star Symbol in Henry Vaughan's Poetry," in Renaissance Papers 1961, ed. George Walton Williams (Durham, N.C.: Southeastern Renaissance

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  Conference, 1962), pp. 25-29. [Read at the eighteenth annual meeting of the conference, Duke University, Durham, N.C., 22 April 1961.]

  "What Shakespeare Wrote," Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 98 (1962), 24-50. [The Annual Phi Beta Kappa Address at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 5 December 1962. Reprinted in Approaches to Shakespeare, ed. Norman Rabkin (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), pp. 264-289; also in FTB's On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (1966), pp. 103-136.]

• 1963

• "Shakespeare's Dramatic Vagueness," Virginia Quarterly Review, 39 (Summer 1963), 475-484. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 80-89.]

  "Textual Criticism," in The Aims and Methods of Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, ed. James Thorpe (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1963), pp. 23-42. Reprinted 1964, 1968. Second edition (revised) 1970, pp. 29-54.

• 1964

• "Some Principles for Scholarly Editions of Nineteenth-Century American Authors," Studies in Bibliography, 17 (1964), 223-228. [Read before the American Literature Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 22 November 1962. Reprinted (hardcover and paperback) in Bibliography and Textual Criticism: English and American Literature, 1700 to the Present, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Warner Barnes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 194-201; also in Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing, ed. Ronald Gottesman and Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970), pp. 54-61.]

  "Dramatic Structure and Criticism: Plot in Hamlet," Shakespeare Quarterly, 15.2 (Spring 1964), 207-218. [Reprinted in Shakespeare 400: Essays by American Scholars on the Anniversary of the Poet's Birth, ed. James G. McManaway (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964); also in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 137-154.]

  "The Text of Johnson," Modern Philology, 61 (May 1964), 298-309. [Review of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II: The Idler, ed. W. J. Bate and J. M. Bullitt, and The Adventurer, ed. L. F. Powell. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 375-391.]

  "Hawthorne's Text," in Hawthorne Centenary Essays, ed. Roy Harvey Pearce (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1964), pp. 401-425.

  "The Moment of Final Suspense in Hamlet: 'We Defy Augury,'" in Shakespeare 1564-1964: A Collection of Modern Essays by Various Hands, ed. Edward A. Bloom (Providence: Brown University Press, 1964), pp. 50-55. [Read before the Shakespeare Section of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., 28 December 1962. Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 114-122. Excerpts (from

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  pp. 53-55) reprinted in FTB's Hamlet: An Outline-Guide to the Play (1965), pp. 112-113, and his William Shakespeare: Hamlet (1967), p. 83. For FTB's video-taped lecture based in part on this essay, see below, 1990, "Death in Victory."]

  "Shakespeare's Art: The Point of View," in Literary Views: Critical and Historical Essays, ed. Carroll Camden, Rice University Semicentennial Publications (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), pp. 45-58. [Read in the Semicentennial Series at Rice University, 16 November 1962. Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 62-79.]

• 1965

• "Death in Victory," South Atlantic Bulletin, 30.2 (March 1965), 1-7. [Read before the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Greenville, S.C., 12 November 1964. An earlier, briefer version of the essay listed below under 1967.]

  "Doctor of Arts: A New Graduate Degree," College English, 27 (November 1965), 123-128.

• 1966

• "Today's Shakespeare Texts, and Tomorrow's," Studies in Bibliography, 19 (1966), 39-65. [An address in the President's Lecture Series, Wayne State University, 10 March 1964. Reprinted in FTB's On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (1966), pp. 137-179.]

  "Hal and Francis in King Henry IV, Part I," in Renaissance Papers 1965, ed. George Walton Williams (Durham, N.C.: Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1966), pp. 15-20. [Read at the twenty-second annual meeting of the Conference, Columbia College, University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.), 2 April 1965. Reprinted as part of "Theme and Structure in King Henry IV, Part I" in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 181-210.]

  "Textual Criticism," in The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare, ed. Oscar James Campbell (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966), pp. 864-869.

• 1967

• "Troilus and Cressida," Times Literary Supplement, 16 March 1967, p. 226. [Letter to the editor.]

  "A Direction for Bibliography," Times Literary Supplement, 28 September 1967, p. 924. [Review of W. W. Greg: Collected Papers, ed. J. C. Maxwell. Unsigned.]

  "Death in Victory: Shakespeare's Tragic Reconciliations," in Studies in Honor of DeWitt T. Starnes, ed. Thomas P. Harrison, Archibald A. Hill, Ernest C. Mossner, James Sledd (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967), pp. 53-75. [See also above, 1965. Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 1-25. For FTB's videotaped lecture based in part on this essay, see below, 1990.]

  "Old Wine in New Bottles: Problems of Machine Printing," in Editing Nineteenth

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  Century Texts: Papers given at the Editorial Conference, University of Toronto, November 1966, ed. John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967), pp. 9-36. [Read 4 November 1966. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 392-411.]

• 1968
• [Review of Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ed. K. Tillotson], Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 23 (September 1968), 226-239.
• 1969

• "Crane's Red Badge of Courage and Other 'Advance Copies,'" Studies in Bibliography, 22 (1969), 273-277.

  "Adam, Eve, and the Fall in Paradise Lost," PMLA, 84 (March 1969), 264-273. [The Christopher Longest Lecture, the University of Mississippi, 27 November 1967.]

  [Review of Walt Whitman's Blue Book: The 1860-61 Leaves of Grass, Containing his Manuscript Additions and Revisions, ed. A. Golden], Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 68 (April 1969), 316-320. [Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 440-446, as "The Facsimile of Whitman's Blue Book."]

  "Bibliography Revisited," The Library, 5th ser., 24 (June 1969), 89-128. [Read (in an abridged form) before the Bibliographical Society, London, 17 October 1967, as part of the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 151-195.]

• 1970

• "The New Look in Editing," South Atlantic Bulletin, 35.1 (January 1970), 3-10. [Address at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, 7 November 1969.]

  "On a Future for Graduate Studies," American Association of University Professors Bulletin, 56 (December 1970), 366-370. [An Address to the Convocation of the Graduate School of Brown University, 1 June 1970, on the occasion of FTB's being awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters. Excerpted as "The Dilemma of Graduate Education," PMLA, 85 (October 1970), 1118, 1120.]

  "Theme and Structure in King Henry IV, Part I," in The Drama of the Renaissance: Essays for Leicester Bradner, ed. Elmer M. Blistein (Providence: Brown University Press, 1970), pp. 42-68. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 181-210.]

• 1971

• "Remarks by Fredson Bowers at a Dinner Honoring Clifton Waller Barrett on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday Anniversary, June 1, 1971," AB Bookman's Weekly, 48 (2-9 August 1971), pp. 239-240, 242. [An address at the University of Virginia Library, 1 June 1971.]

  "Four Faces of Bibliography," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 10 (1971), 33-45. [Read before the Society at Massey College, University

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  of Toronto, 5 November 1971. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 94-108.]

• 1972

• "Was There a Lost 1593 Edition of Marlowe's Edward II?" Studies in Bibliography, 25 (1972), 143-148.

  "The Early Editions of Marlowe's Ovid's Elegies," Studies in Bibliography, 25 (1972), 149-172.

  "Multiple Authority: New Problems and Concepts of Copy-Text," The Library, 5th ser., 27 (June 1972), 81-115. [Read before the Bibliographical Society, London, 18 April 1972, and at the University of Birmingham, 2 May 1972; a version of this paper was read before the Bibliographical Evidence Section of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, 29 December 1971. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 447-487. Translated by Katia Lysy in Filologia dei testi a stampa, ed. Pasquale Stopelli (Bologna: Il mulino, 1987), pp. 107-145.]

  [Review of Thomas Dekker: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Early Editions (to the end of the 17th Century), by A. F. Allison], Times Literary Supplement, 17 November 1972, p. 1404. [Unsigned.]

  "Notes on Editing The O'Ruddy: A Posthumously Published Work"; "Stephen Crane, The O'Ruddy: Editorial Process"; "Notes on Editing 'Death and the Child': Four Independent Texts"; "Notes on Editing 'The Revenge of the Adolphus': A Combined, Selective Text," in The Author's Intention: An Exhibition for the Center for Editions of American Authors (Columbia, S.C.: for the CEAA, 1972), pp. 10-24, 28-33, 37-41.

  "Seven or More Years?" in Shakespeare 1971: Proceedings of the World Shakespeare Congress, Vancouver, August, 1971, ed. Clifford Leech and J. M. R. Margeson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), pp. 50-58. [Read before the Congress].

• 1973

• "Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: The 1602 Additions," Studies in Bibliography, 26 (1973), 1-18.

  "The Ecology of American Literary Texts," Scholarly Publishing, 4 (January 1973), 133-140. [Adapted from a paper read at the opening of 'The Author's Intention': an exhibition of the original documents in the editing of books printed for the Center for Editions of American Authors, sponsored by the National Humanities Foundation, at the Folger Library, Washington, D.C., 14 February 1972.]

  "McKerrow Revisited," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 67 (Second Quarter 1973), 109-124. [Review of A New Introduction to Bibliography, by P. Gaskell.]

• 1974

• "Beggars Bush: A Reconstructed Prompt-Book and Its Copy," Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974), 113-136.

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  "Marlowe Authenticated," Times Literary Supplement, 10 May 1974, p. 502. [Letter to the editor concerning the criticism of R. E. Alton and Roma Gill.]

  [Letter to the Editor], Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 68 (Fourth Quarter 1974), 407-408. [Concerning FTB's role in the Dewey edition.]

  [Review of Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes: A Critical Edition, ed. A.-M. Hedbäck], Svensk Tidskrift för Bibliografi, och Textkritik, 1 (1974), 41-44.

  "Bibliographical Introduction," in Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, compiled by Joan St. C. Crane. Published for the Associates of the University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974), pp. xxi-xxii.

• 1975

• "Linton Reynolds Massey 1900-1974," Chapter & Verse 3: A Report of the Associates of the University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, February 1975), pp. 5-8. [Read before the faculty of the University of Virginia, 18 February 1975.]

  "Remarks on Eclectic Texts," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 4 (1975), 31-76. [This issue of Proof was dedicated to FTB. Paper read at a Conference on Editorial Problems, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, 22 September 1973. Reprinted in FTB's Essays (1975), pp. 488-528.]

• 1976

• "Transcription of Manuscripts: The Record of Variants," Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976), 212-264.

  "Scholarship and Editing," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 70 (Second Quarter 1976), 161-188. [An abridgment of this paper was read at the annual meeting of the BSA, New York, 23 January 1976. Reprinted in The Bibliographical Society of America 1904-79: A Retrospective Collection (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of America, 1980), pp. 514-541.]

  [Review of John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. P. Nidditch], The Library, 5th ser., 31 (December 1976), 395-405.

  "Recovering the Author's Intention," Pages: The World of Books, Writers, and Writing, 1 (1976), 218-226.

• 1977

• "Charlton K. Hinman," Shakespeare Newsletter, 27 (April 1977), 9.

  "Charlton Joseph Kadio Hinman," Book Collector, 26 (Autumn 1977), 389-391.

  "Foreword" to First Printings of American Authors, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

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  (Detroit: Gale Research, 1977), 1: xv-xvi. [Final two sentences reprinted on front cover of AB Bookman's Weekly, 62.17 (23 October 1978).]

• 1978

• "Greg's 'Rationale of Copy-Text' Revisited," Studies in Bibliography, 31 (1978), 90-161.

  "McKerrow, Greg, and 'Substantive Edition,'" The Library, 5th ser., 33 (June 1978), 83-107.

  "The Copy for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar," South Atlantic Bulletin, 43.4 (November 1978), 23-36.

  "Samson Agonistes: Justice and Reconciliation," in The Dress of Words: Essays on Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature in Honor of Richmond P. Bond, ed. Robert B. White, Jr. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1978), pp. 1-23. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 211-239.]

• 1979

• "Foul Papers, Compositor B, and the Speech-Prefixes of All's Well That Ends Well," Studies in Bibliography, 32 (1979), 60-81.

  "Foreword" to G. Thomas Tanselle, Selected Studies in Bibliography (Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1979), p. [vii]. [Signed: The Council of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.]

  "The New Massinger Edition," Yearbook of English Studies, 9 (1979), 279-294. [Review of The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger, ed. P. Edwards and C. Gibson.]

• 1980

• "Establishing Shakespeare's Text: Notes on Short Lines and the Problem of Verse Division," Studies in Bibliography, 33 (1980), 74-130.

  "The Structure of King Lear," Shakespeare Quarterly, 31 (Spring 1980), 7-20. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 163-180.]

  "The Education of Editors," Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing, 2.4 (December 1980), 1-4. [Read at a meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, Williamsburg, Va., 31 October 1980.]

  "Editing a Philosopher: The Works of William James," Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, 4 (1980), 3-36. [Read at the University of South Carolina, 25 October 1978; and at Northern Illinois University, 19 March 1979.]

  "Shakespeare at Work: The Foul Papers of All's Well That Ends Well," in English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in Honour of Her Seventieth Birthday, ed. John Carey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 56-73.

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• 1981

• "Establishing Shakespeare's Text: Poins and Peto in I Henry IV," Studies in Bibliography, 34 (1981), 189-198.

  [Remarks], in A Salute to Clifton Waller Barrett on His Eightieth from Friends & Admirers (Charlottesville, 1 June 1981), pp. [10-12].

  "Southerne's The Disappointment," The Library, 6th ser., 3 (December 1981), 347. [Letter to the editor concerning FTB's 1950 article on this subject.]

• 1982

• "The Historical Collation in an Old-Spelling Shakespeare Edition: Another View," Studies in Bibliography, 35 (1982), 234-258.

  [Review of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition], Huntington Library Quarterly, 45 (Spring 1982), 174-179.

  "Climax and Protagonist in Shakespeare's Dramatic Structure," South Atlantic Review, 47.2 (May 1982), 22-52. [Reprinted in FTB's Hamlet as Minister and Scourge (1989), pp. 26-61.

  [Letter to the Editor], Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing, 4.3 (September 1982), 8-9. [Concerning the transcription of manuscripts.]

• 1983

• [Review of Hamlet (New Arden Edition), ed. H. Jenkins], The Library, 6th ser., 5 (September 1983), 282-296.

  "The Concept of Single or Dual Protagonists in Shakespeare's Tragedies," in Renaissance Papers 1982, ed. A. Leigh Deneef and M. Thomas Hester (Durham, N.C.: Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1983), pp. 27-33. [Read at the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 26-27 March 1982.]

• 1984
• "The Editor and the Question of Value: Another View," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 1 (1984), 45-73. [Read at a meeting of the Society, New York, 10 April 1981.]
• 1985
• "Notes on Editorial Apparatus," in Historical & Editorial Studies in Medieval & Early Modern English, for Johan Gerritsen, ed. Mary-Jo Arn and Haneke Wirtjes (Groningen: Walters-Noordhoff, 1985), pp. 147-162.
• 1986

• "Authority, Copy, and Transmission in Shakespeare's Texts," in Shakespeare Study Today: The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Lectures, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (New York: AMS Press, 1986), pp. 7-36.

  "A Search for Authority: The Investigation of Shakespeare's Printed Texts," in Print and Culture in the Renaissance: Essays on the Advent of Printing in Europe, ed. Gerald P. Tyson and Sylvia S. Wagonheim (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986), pp. 17-44.

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• 1987

• "Readability and Regularization in Old-Spelling Texts of Shakespeare," Huntington Library Quarterly, 50 (Summer 1987), 199-227.

  "Mixed Texts and Multiple Authority," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 3 (1987), 63-90. [Read at a meeting of the Society, New York, 27 April 1985.]

• 1988

• "Unfinished Business," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 4 (1988), 1-11. [Presidential Address, the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, 26 April 1985.]

  [Letter to the Editor], Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, n.s. 2 (1988), 133. [Concerning personal remarks in Morse Peckham's review of Hershel Parker's Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons, AEB, n.s. 1 (1987), 171-174.]

• 1989
• "Regularization and Normalization in Modern Critical Texts," Studies in Bibliography, 42 (1989), 79-102. [Read at a meeting of the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, 10 April 1987.]
• 1990

• "The Problem of Semi-Substantive Variants: An Example from the Shakespeare-Fletcher Henry VIII," Studies in Bibliography, 43 (1990), 80-95. [Read at a meeting of the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, 6 April 1989.]

  "Death in Victory: Shakespeare's Tragic Reconciliations." A videotaped lecture by FTB in Eminent Scholar/Teachers: Shakespeare Video Lecture Series (Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc., 1990). [A version of the essay by this title and of "The Moment of Final Suspense in Hamlet": see above, 1967 and 1964, respectively.]

  "Hamlet as Minister and Scourge." A videotaped lecture by FTB in Eminent Scholar/Teachers: Shakespeare Video Lecture Series (Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc., 1990). [A version of the essay by this title: see above, 1955.]

• 1991
• "Authorial Intention and Editorial Problems," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 5 (1991), 49-61. [Read at a meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., 13 November 1988.]
• 1992

• "Notes on Theory and Practice in Editing Texts," in The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography, ed. Peter Davison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 244-257. [The centenary volume of the Bibliographical Society (London).]

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  "Why Apparatus?" Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 6 (1992). [Read in FTB's behalf by G. Thomas Tanselle at a meeting of the Society, New York, 11 April 1991.]

Non-Academic Writings

As an Undergraduate

• [Unsigned news stories and editorials], Brown Daily Herald, September 1921-May 1925. [FTB was on the Herald staff during this period, and from 3 May 1924 to 1 May 1925 he was Editor-in-Chief.]

  The Anthology of English 3,4. Edited by Hans J. Gottlieb, Fredson T. Bowers, and J. Durward Miner. Providence: Brown University Department of English, 1923. [Including a story by FTB, "Release," pp. 1-11.]

  "The Street That Ends in the Sea," Casements, 2.1 (November 1923), [8-9]. [An allegory.]

  "The Passing Show," Casements, 2.2 (January 1924), [3-5]. [Parodies of Frederick O'Brien, Theodore Dreiser, amy Lowell, and D. H. Lawrence.]

  "Whitney Warren," Casements, 2.3 (March 1924), 9-13. [Story.]

  "A Coat of Arms for Prom Hosts," Brown Jug, May 1924, p. 12. [Verse.]

  [Unsigned items], Brown Jug, May, June, November, December 1924; January, February 1925. [FTB is listed as a "Juggler" in these issues.]

  "Herald Reviews Latest Number of Casements," Brown Daily Herald, 6 May 1924, pp. 1, 2.

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 30 September 1924, p. 4. [Review of May Sinclair's Arnold Waterlow.]

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 7 October 1924, pp. 2, 4. [Review of Anne Douglas Sedgwick's The Little French Girl.]

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 10 November 1924, p. 4. [Review of Ernest Brace's Commencement.]

  "The Plastic Age," Brown Jug, February 1925, p. 22. [Verse.]

  "College Slang a Language All Its Own," The Literary Digest, 84.11 (14 March 1925), 64-65. [The editor presents this piece as taken from an article by FTB "as summarized by the Providence Journal and the Brooklyn Eagle"; the same topic is addressed more seriously in "Diction on the Campus," an editorial in the Brown Daily Herald, 23 February 1925, p.2.]

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 24 March 1925, pp. 2, 3, 4. [Review of Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren.]

On Dogs

• book
• The Dog Owner's Handbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. xviii, 274 pp. Reprint: New York: Sun Dial Press, 1940.

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• articles

• "Irish Wolfhounds," American Kennel Gazette, 51.3 (1 March 1934)-57.12 (December 1940). [From March 1934 through July 1937, FTB occasionally contributed letters and columns to this monthly department; see the numbers for March and June 1934, August 1935, June and September 1936, and January and July 1937—this last piece was reprinted as "Morris and Essex K. C. Show, Madison, New Jersey (Club Specialty)," in The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1936 and 1937] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1938), pp. 70-75. From December 1937 through December 1940, FTB was the regular columnist; thirty columns of his appeared, in every number except those for September and October 1938, July through October 1939, and July 1940.]

  "Training Dogs for the Street," American Kennel Gazette, 51.10 (1 October 1934), 28-32, 156-158.

  "Novices All Need the Sympathetic Judging of Their Dogs," American Kennel Gazette, 52.4 (1 April 1935), 15-20.

  "English Notes and Comments," The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1934 and 1935] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1936), pp. 72-77.

  "A Feud between Ireland and England Caused a Dog Canard to be Born," American Kennel Gazette, 56.5 (1 May 1939), 8-12, 174-175.

  "Tie a Piece of String on Your Thumb," The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1938 and 1939] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1940), pp. 58-60.

  "Random Notes on the Standard," The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1946 and 1947] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1948), pp. 21-26.

  "The 1948 Specialty Show," News Bulletin—Irish Wolfhound Club of America, 2.1 (Autumn 1948), [1-4].

  "The Specialty Show," Harp & Hound, 5.3 (Summer 1954), 80.

  "Bowers' Comments," Harp & Hound, 15.2 (1964), 11.

  "I.W.s, People Need Training, Bowers Warns," Harp & Hound, 17.2 (1966), 14-15.

  "Fredson T. Bowers, 1939," Harp & Hound, 27.1 (1976), 36, 38-41. [Excerpts from seven of FTB's previously published columns in the American Kennel Gazette. This fiftieth-anniversary number contains six additional quotations from FTB on pp. 29, 38, 70, and 92, drawn from the Annual Reports and News Bulletin of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and from Harp & Hound, as well as from the American Kennel Gazette.]

On Music

• "Music on Records" [later, after minor variations, "Music Off the Records" and finally, from 1950 on, "Music Off Records"], Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11 November 1939-6 November 1966. [1,162 columns in the

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  Sunday editions, except those for: 14 Dec. 1941; 24 May, 14 June-23 Aug., 6 Sept., 20 Sept.-6 Dec., 20-27 Dec. 1942; 1 Jan.-28 Feb., 14 Mar.-4 April, 2 May-27 June, 18 July, 1-15 Aug., 29 Aug.-3 Oct., 17, 31 Oct., 21 Nov., 12-19 Dec. 1943; 2-23 Jan., 6, 20 Feb., 5 March-9 April, 30 April, 7 May, 21 May-4 June, 18 June-16 July, 30 July, 13 Aug.-8 Oct., 29 Oct., 19-26 Nov., 24 Dec. 1944; 7 Jan., 21 Jan.-11 Feb., 4-18 March, 1-8 April, 6 May-24 June, 8, 22 July, 5-12 Aug., 2 Sept., 16 Sept.-7 Oct., 21 Oct., 4 Nov.-2 Dec., 16-23 Dec. 1945; 20 Jan.-10 Feb., 24 Feb., 3, 24 March, 12 May, 9, 30 June, 8, 29 Sept., 24 Nov. 1946; 26 Jan., 16-23 Feb., 9, 23 March, 6, 20 April, 11 May, 6 July, 10-17 Aug., 12 Oct., 16, 30 Nov., 28 Dec. 1947; 11 Jan., 4 July 1948; 26 June, 3, 17-24 July, 14, 28 Aug., 4 Sept. 1949; 19 March, 23 July, 27 Aug., 10-17 Sept. 1950; 4 Jan., 17 June, 1, 29 July, 2, 16 Sept., 30 Dec. 1951; 27 July, 7 Sept.-28 Dec. 1952; 4 Jan.-7 June, 8 Nov. 1953; 29 Aug. 1954; 5 April-2 Aug. 1959; 30 Jan. 1966. An unpublished checklist of FTB's reviews of classical records, compiled by John Denniston, is in the University of Virginia Library (Special Collections), where may also be seen the typescript of FTB's unpublished lecture, "The Ideal Record Collector," read at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 5 March 1961.]

  "What's Best Among New Type Phonograph Records?", Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10 April 1949, p. D-13.

  "Potential Buyers Should Test New Record Players," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 17 April 1949, p. D-17.

  [The London Music Scene], Richmond Times-Dispatch, 26 April 1953, p. 48.

On Stamps

• "A Checklist of RPO-HPO Changeover Postmarks," HPO Notes [journal of the National Highway Post Office Society], 7.2 (February 1956), 1-2; 7.3 (March 1956), 1-2; 7.4 (April 1956), 2.

  "Highway Post Office Cover Collection Can Be Called 'Recorded Postal History,'" Linn's Weekly Stamp News, 29.3 (26 March 1956), 3.

  "20 Cent Monticello First Day Covers," Western Stamp Collector, 30.82 (19 May 1956), 7.

  "More on the RPO-HPO Changeover Postmarks," HPO Notes, 7.7 (July 1956), 3-4; 7.8 (August 1956), 2.

  "Current HPO Steels," HPO Notes, 8.1 (January 1957), 5; 8.11 (November 1957), 3; 9.2 (February 1958), 5.

  "Notes on Recent Provisional HPO Postmarks," HPO Notes, 8.6 (June 1957), 2; 8.10 (October 1957), 1-3.

  "Collecting Provisional HPO Postmarks: A Real Challenge to Those Who Pursue Covers," Linn's Weekly Stamp News, 30.21 (29 July 1957), 14.

Chronology

• 1905 Born New Haven, Connecticut, 25 April
• 1917-21 New Haven General High School, New Haven
• 1921-25 Brown University (Ph.B., 1925)
• 1924 Phi Beta Kappa
• 1924-25 Editor-in-Chief, Brown Daily Herald
• 1925-34 Harvard University (Ph.D., 1934)
• 1926-36 Instructor in English and Tutor in the Modern Languages, Harvard University
• 1928 Charles Dexter Scholar, Harvard University (and 1935)
• 1934 Ph.D., Harvard University
• 1936-38 Instructor in English, Princeton University
• 1938-46 Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1942-45 Commander, U.S.N.R., Naval Communications, Washington, D.C.
• 1946-48 Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1948-57 Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1948-91 Editor, Studies in Bibliography
• 1949-64 Professorial Lecturer in English, University of Chicago
• 1952-53 Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom
• 1954 A.S. W. Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography
• 1954-72 Advisory Board, Shakespeare Quarterly
• 1955-60 Committee on Research Activities, Modern Language Association of America
• 1955-82 New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, MLA
• 1956-59 Regional Chairman, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• 1957-58 Samuel Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge University
• 1957-68 Alumni Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1958-59 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1959 James P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography, Oxford University
• 1960 President, Southeastern Renaissance Conference
• 1961-68 Chairman, Department of English, University of Virginia
• 1961-75 Editorial Board, Virginia Quarterly Review
• 1962 Committee on Resolutions, MLA
• 1962-63 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
• 1962-78 Shakespeare Variorum Committee, Modern Language Association of America
• 1963-66 Executive Council, MLA
• 1964 Bicentennial Medal, Brown University
• 1966-68 English Program Advisory Committee, MLA
• 1967-70 MLA Delegate to American Council of Learned Societies Executive Committee, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Vice-President, 1968; president, 1969)

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• 1968 Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy Election to American Antiquarian Society
• 1968-69 Dean of the Faculty, University of Virginia
• 1968-75 Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1969 Gold Medal, The Bibliographical Society, London
• 1970 Doctor of Letters, Clark University Doctor of Letters, Brown University Guggenheim Fellow [taken up in 1972] Research Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
• 1970-74 Advisory Board, University Press of Virginia
• 1971 Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia
• 1972 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford Research Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
• 1973 Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Chicago
• 1974 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
• 1975-91 Emeritus Linden Kent Memorial Professor, University of Virginia
• 1975 Fellow Commoner, Churchill College, Cambridge
• 1985 International Conference on Bibliography and Editing in Honor of Fredson Bowers's Eightieth Birthday, University of Virginia, 20-23 April. [See Fredson Bowers at Eighty (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1985, reprinted from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 79 [Second Quarter 1985]), 54 p., including articles by G. Thomas Tanselle, David J. Nordloh, and David L. Vander Meulen.]
• 1985-87 President, Society for Textual Scholarship Research Fellow, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
• 1986 Election to Honorary Membership, Bibliographical Society of America Julian P. Boyd Award, Association for Documentary Editing
• 1989 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library
• 1991 Died Charlottesville, Virginia, 11 April

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