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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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How many Elizabethan or Jacobean manuscripts of Shakespeare sonnets have come down to us?
The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700 (CELM) has a list of manuscripts of Shakespeare sonnets:
1 (‘From fairest creatures we desire increase’) — c.1650s
2 (‘When forty winters shall …
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How many manuscripts of English Renaissance plays have survived?
The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700 (CELM) has a comprehensive list of manuscripts from the period of interest. I sampled some of the authors and I estimate that the catalogue incl …
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Have any Middleton manuscripts other than A Game at Chess survived?
The work has been done for us by the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700! All we have to do is go to the author page for Thomas Middleton and search for “autograph” and “Middleton’s ha …
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Why was Pygmalion retitled to My Fair Lady?
The title of the musical is discussed by Alan Jay Lerner (the librettist) in two passages in his 1978 memoir The Street Where I Live. Lerner gives no indication that anyone involved with the musical e …
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Which short stories are falsely attributed to Guy de Maupassant, and why?
The ‘which’ and ‘where’ parts of the question were answered by Maupassant’s biographer Francis Steegmuller:
A smart American publisher and bookseller named M. Walter Dunne, whose specialty was large …
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The text of Wordsworth's "To Toussaint L'Ouverture"
I found four versions of these lines published by Wordsworth in his lifetime. We can be reasonably confident that these are the poet’s own revisions.
Toussaint! the most unhappy Man of Men,
Whether t …
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What's the first appearance of the rhyme about "He died defending his right of way"?
The poem is ‘An Epitaph’ by Edgar A. Guest, first published in the Detroit Free Press on 1st October 1916 in Guest’s ‘Breakfast Table Chat’ column.
An Epitaph.
Here lies the body
Of William Jay, …
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What words sung by Gloria Gaynor correspond to the line written in the lyrics of I Will Surv...
Gloria Gaynor recorded two versions of ‘I Will Survive’. The original 1978 version has the lyric “It took all the strength I had not to fall apart” that is quoted on many lyrics sites. But in the earl …
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Why are so many Agatha Christie novels published with multiple titles?
This is because Christie was published in both the United States and the United Kingdom. These are the two largest markets for English-language books, and in the mid-20th century when Christie was wri …
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Why is the 1820 Indicator version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci seen as more "politically corr...
Fry relies on McGann, so in this answer I’m going to summarize McGann’s argument.
McGann starts with the observation that a commonly accepted editorial principle is that the editor should try to recov …
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Typographical inconsistency in James Joyce's "Araby"
Since “left” makes sense in context and “felt” does not, the simplest explanation is that the former is correct and the latter an error. The 1914 Grant Richards edition of Dubliners is available via t …
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In which version of "Snow White" is her name really "Lips Red as Blood, Hair Black as Ebony,...
Here’s the start of the story ‘Sneewittchen’ as given by the brothers Grimm:
Es war einmal mitten im Winter und die Schneeflocken fielen wie Federn vom Himmel, da saß eine schöne Königin an einem Fen …
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Has "To Autumn" ever ended the first stanza with something other than a period?
‘To Autumn’ was first published in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820) where it starts on page 137 and you can see for yourself that the first stanza …
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How does "handwriting" provide evidence for dating Beowulf's composition to "the first half ...
The history of a Wikipedia article can be investigated using the ‘wikiblame’ tool. This shows that the gloss “(handwriting)” for “palaeographical” was added, along with a couple of other glosses, in t …
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Gagool, Gagoola, or Gagaoola?
The name “Gagaoola” appears in Haggard’s Cetywayo and his White Neighbours (1882), a journalistic account of the Anglo–Zulu War of 1879 and the First Boer War of 1880–1881. Appendix III describes a ca …
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