Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois Part 55

FOOTNOTES:

[313:1] The numbers refer to the pages of Grimeston's volume.

Bibliography

_The place of publication is London unless otherwise indicated._

I. TEXTS

=1607=, 4o. BUSSY D'AMBOIS: A TRAGEDIE: As it hath been often presented at Paules. London, Printed for William Aspley, [B. M. C. 34. c. 12.]

=1608=, 4o. BUSSY D'AMBOIS: [&c. A reissue of the 1607 edition, with the date altered. B. M. 644. d. 41.]

=1613=, 4o. THE REVENGE OF BUSSY D'AMBOIS. A TRAGEDIE. As it hath beene often presented at the private Play-house in the White-Fryers. Written by George Chapman, Gentleman. London. Printed by T. S. and are to be solde by Iohn Helme, at his Shop in S. Dunstones Church-yard, in Fleetstreet. [B. M. C. 34. c. 16.]

=1641=, 4o. BUSSY D'AMBOIS: A TRAGEDIE: As it hath been often Acted with great Applause. Being much corrected and amended by the Author before his death. London. Printed by A. N. for Robert Lunne. [B. M. 644. d.

42.]

=1646=, 4o. BUSSY D'AMBOIS: [A . . . London, as in 1641 edition.]

Printed by T. W. for Robert Lunne and are to be sold at his house next doore to the signe of the Crane on Lambeth Hill at the end of old Fishstreet. [B. M. 644. d. 43. A reissue of the 1641 edition with the imprint altered.]

=1657=, 4o. BUSSY D'AMBOIS: A TRAGEDIE: As it hath been often Acted with great applause. Being much corrected and amended by the Author, George Chapman, Gent. Before his death. London, Printed, for Joshua Kirton, at his Shop in St. Pauls Church-yard, at the sign of the Kings-Arms. [B. M.

644. d. 44. Another reissue of the 1641 edition, with a new t.i.tle-page.]

[Baker in his _Biographia Dramatica_ (1812) II, 73, mentions an edition of Bussy D'Ambois in 1616, but no copy of such an edition has been traced, and Dilke, _Old English Plays_ (1814) vol. III, p. 228, is probably right in considering that the entry is an error for that of 1646, which Baker does not mention.]

=1691=, 4o. BUSSY D'AMBOIS OR THE HUSBANDS REVENGE. A TRAGEDY. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. Newly Revised by Mr. D'Urfey [quotation from the Satires of Horace]. London. Printed for R. Bently in Covent Garden, Jo. Hindmarsh over against the Royal Exchange, and Abel Roper at the Mitre near Temple Bar.

=1814=, 8o. OLD ENGLISH PLAYS; being a selection from the early dramatic writers. [Volume III contains _Bussy D'Ambois_, together with _Monsieur D'Olive_, and Dekker's _The Wonder of a Kingdom_ and _Old Fortunatus_. A short life of Chapman is prefixed to _Bussy D'Ambois_. The text is that of the edition of 1641, in modernised spelling. The notes contain some of the variants in the Q of 1607, and explanations of many difficult phrases. The editor, though his name does not appear, was C. W. Dilke, afterwards editor of the _Athenaeum_, and grandfather of the present Sir C. W. Dilke.]

=1873=, 8o. THE COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES OF GEORGE CHAPMAN. Now first collected, with ill.u.s.trative notes and a memoir of the author. In three volumes. London. John Pearson York Street Covent Garden. [Vol. II contains _Bussy D'Ambois_ and _The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois_, together with _Byron's Conspiracie and Tragedie_ and _May-Day_. The text of _Bussy D'Ambois_ is, where differences of reading occur, that of the edition of 1641, the variants of 1607 being given (with some inaccuracies) at the foot of the page. Otherwise the spelling of 1607 is followed, and the t.i.tle-page of the 1607 Quarto is faultily reproduced.

_The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois_ is reprinted from the 1613 Quarto, in the original spelling, and with a faulty reproduction of the t.i.tle-page.

The explanatory notes to both plays are very slight, but there is a valuable introductory memoir to vol. I, giving extracts from previous criticisms of Chapman.]

=1874-5=, 8o. THE WORKS OF GEORGE CHAPMAN: edited with notes, by Richard Herne Shepherd. [Vol. I, Plays, vol. II, Homer's _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_, vol. III, Poems and Minor Translations, Chatto and Windus. An edition in modernised spelling, and with merely a sprinkling of notes. To vol. III is prefixed Mr. A. C. Swinburne's _Essay on the Poetical and Dramatic Works of George Chapman_, the finest and most comprehensive study of Chapman's writings.]

=1895=, 8o. GEORGE CHAPMAN edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by William Lyon Phelps, M.A. Ph.D. London: T. Fisher Unwin. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. [This volume of the _Mermaid Series_ contains _Bussy D'Ambois_ and _The Revenge_, together with _Byron's Conspiracie and Tragedie_ and _All Fools_. The text is reprinted from the edition of 1873, but with the spelling modernised. There is an introductory memoir containing an "appreciation" of Chapman as a dramatist, and brief explanatory notes are added at the foot of the text.]

II. WORKS AND ARTICLES USEFUL FOR STUDY OF THE PLAYS

=1681.= DEDICATION OF THE SPANISH FRIAR, J. Dryden. Reprinted in W. P.

Ker's _Essays of John Dryden_, vol. I, pp. 244-50, Oxford, 1900.

=1691.= THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF THE ENGLISH DRAMATICK POETS, G.

Langbaine. Oxford.

=1691.= ATHENae OXONIENSES, Anthony a Wood: vol. II, pp. 575-81 (edition continued by Ph. Bliss, 1815). Short life of Chapman.

=1808.= SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, Charles Lamb. Lamb quotes the following pa.s.sages from _Bussy D'Ambois_: II, 1, 33-135; I, 1, 5-17; I, 1, 20-23; I, 1, 134-9; I, 2, 10-33. Further extracts, together with several from _The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois_, were added in 1827.

=1818.= LECTURES ON THE DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH. W.

Hazlitt. Lecture III, _On Marston, Chapman, Decker, and Webster_.

=1821.= THE RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW, vol. IV: Article on _Chapman's Plays_.

This Article deals with the Tragedies and gives long extracts from _Bussy D'Ambois_ and the two "Byron" plays. It concludes: "_The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois_ we regret to say we have never seen. The rarity of the old plays is such, that they are only to be found in some public libraries, and in the extensive h.o.a.rds of private collectors; and in such applications as we have reluctantly caused to be made, we confess, we have rather found the exclusive spirit of the monopolist, than the liberality of the enlightened lover of literature." A second Article, on the Comedies, is contained in vol. V.

=1841.= THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, April: Article on _Beaumont and Fletcher and their Contemporaries_.

=1865.= CHAPMAN IN SEINEM VERHaLTNISS ZU SHAKESPEARE, F. Bodenstedt.

_Shakspere Jahrbuch_, I, Berlin.

=1874.= THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE, July: article on _Chapman's Dramatic Works_.

=1875.= GEORGE CHAPMAN: A CRITICAL ESSAY, A. C. Swinburne. A reprint of the Introductory Essay to vol. II of the Edition of Chapman's works edited by R. H. Shepherd. Chatto & Windus.

=1887.= THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, vol. X, Article on _George Chapman_ by A. H. Bullen.

=1891.= A BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLE OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA, F. G. Fleay, vol.

I, pp. 50-66. Reeves and Turner.

=1899.= A HISTORY OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC LITERATURE TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE, A. W. Ward. New and Revised Edition, vol. II, chap. vi, 408-450.

Macmillan.

=1892.= DER BLANKVERS IN DEN DRAMEN GEORGE CHAPMANS, Emil Elste. Halle.

=1897.= QUELLEN-STUDIEN ZU DEN DRAMEN GEORGE CHAPMAN'S, PHILIP Ma.s.sINGER'S UND JOHN FORD'S, Emil Koeppel. An account of this important monograph, which is the 82d volume of the Stra.s.sburg _Quellen und Forschungen_ is given in the Introduction, p. x.x.xi.

=1900.= GEORGE CHAPMAN UND DAS ITALIENISCHE DRAMA, A. L. Stiefel.

_Shakspere Jahrbuch_, x.x.xV. Deals chiefly with the relation between Chapman's _May-Day_ and A. Piccolomini's _Alessandro_.

=1901.= LETTERS AND DOc.u.mENTS BY GEORGE CHAPMAN, BEN JONSON, etc., Bertram Dobell, printed in _The Athenaeum_, Nos. 3830-3833. These "letters and doc.u.ments" form part of a small quarto MS. volume of about 90 leaves, containing "copies of letters, pet.i.tions, or other doc.u.ments dating from about 1580 to 1613." Mr. Dobell, to whom their publication is due, considers "that the writer or collector of the doc.u.ments can have been no other than George Chapman." Six of these letters are reprinted in Prof. Sch.e.l.ling's edition of _Eastward Hoe_ and _The Alchemist_, 1903.

=1903.= THE SOURCE OF CHAPMAN'S "THE CONSPIRACIE AND TRAGEDIE OF CHARLES, DUKE OF BYRON" AND "THE REVENGE OF BUSSY D'AMBOIS," F. S. Boas, in _The Athenaeum_, No. 3924, Jan. 10th.

=1903.= SHAKESPEARE AND THE RIVAL POET, Arthur Acheson. John Lane. An attempt to identify Chapman with "the rival poet" alluded to in Shakespeare's Sonnets.

=MS.= CHORUS VATUM, Joseph Hunter, British Museum Addit. MSS. 24488, vol. v, pp. 61-66. Article on _George Chapman_.

III. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS RELATING TO BUSSY D'AMBOIS

=1604-20.= HISTORIae SUI TEMPORIS, J. A. De Thou. The earliest editions, published in 1604, do not mention Bussy. That of 1609, which carries on the narrative to the year 1584, only mentions (lib. LII, p. 132) his proceedings during the Ma.s.sacre of St. Bartholomew. It is the edition of 1620, published at Geneva, and embracing events till 1607 that includes (lib. LXVIII, p. 330 ff.) the narrative of Bussy's murder, in printed Appendix A, and (lib. CXIII, p. 558) of Renee D'Ambois's meditated revenge (cf. Introduction, p. x.x.xvi). The most convenient edition of De Thou's History is that published by S. Buckley in 1733.