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For questions about the history of the manuscripts, printed texts, or orally transmitted versions of a single work; or when and where a work was first published; or specific features of one or more editions; or how editors establish an accurate or authoritative text, etc. Not to be confused with the [publishing] tag, which is about publishing practices generally, or the [historical-context] tag, which is about relevant background information.
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When was Marlowe's Doctor Faustus written?
I read in a recent answer that "Marlowe's plays are generally hard to date and Doctor Faustus was probably written between 1589 and 1592", and this intriguing situation struck me as something that wou …
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When were the short stories of Malgudi Days published?
Malgudi Days is a short story collection by R. K. Narayan. According to Wikipedia:
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. …
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Were the footnotes included in the original text of the 1002nd Tale of Scheherazade?
The short story "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" by Edgar Allan Poe details a great many wonders of the more modern world being described by Scheherazade to her husband, in terms familia …
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What is known, and how, about the dating of the Exeter Book?
The Exeter Book is one of the most important pieces of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature, containing a wide variety of works including riddles, elegies, a so-called bestiary, etc. Wikipedia says th …
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What's the origin of the rhyme "My friend Billy had a ten foot willy"?
A simple rhyming song which I heard growing up and which still gets stuck in my head every so often:
My friend Billy had a ten foot willy.
He stuck it through the neighbour's door. OR He showed …
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How long did accounts of the Sängerkrieg last as purely oral literature?
The Sängerkrieg, or contest of minstrels, was an event which (supposedly) took place at Wartburg Castle in Germany in the early 13th century. Since its veracity is disputed, I assume there weren't any …
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Different versions of the text of The Story of Doctor Dolittle?
In the process of answering this question, I hunted high and low for a quote that I was sure I remembered from the original book The Story of Doctor Dolittle which remarked explicitly on the doctor's …
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Why was Far from the Madding Crowd first published anonymously?
I recently learned that Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd was first published anonymously in Cornhill Magazine. As far as I know, publishing novels as monthly serials was reasonably comm …
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Was The Forty Rules of Love originally written in Turkish or in English?
I was trying to figure out whether or not to use the turkish-literature tag for my questions here about Elif Şafak's novel The Forty Rules of Love, i.e. whether or not the book was originally written …
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How did the story of Robin Hood pass from oral literature to written?
Robin Hood is a famous figure of English folklore, whose existence or fictionality is still a subject of debate. The stories about him started off as folk tales transmitted orally (ballads), but by no …
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Why are there three different versions of the "solid/sullied/sallied flesh" line in Hamlet?
While looking up about the passage asked about in this previous question, I noticed that there are different versions of the same line in Hamlet, Act I Scene II, line 333:
O that this too too solid f …
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Were any of the Asbjørnsen og Moe stories transcribed directly from oral traditions?
Asbjørnsen og Moe are the Norwegian answers to the Brothers Grimm, the collectors of what is still considered the definitive volume of Norwegian folk tales.
How many of these tales were taken from st …
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Earliest known manuscripts of the Shahnameh?
The classical Persian epic poem the Shahnameh was written over a millennium ago, 977-1010 CE, compiled in verse form from traditional mythology and history by the poet Ferdowsi. Wikipedia tells us abo …
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Is there really a single "Old Babylonian version" of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
From the Wikipedia article about the Epic of Gilgamesh:
From the diverse sources found, two main versions of the epic have been partially reconstructed: the standard Akkadian version, or He who sa …
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What is the original source of Rabindranath Tagore's "Endless Time"?
There is a poem "Endless Time" by Rabindranath Tagore as follows, which I interpret as being about a mortal human speaking to God, someone living a rushed human life and comparing it to God's timeless …
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