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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 MASSINGER'S UND JOHN FORD'S, Emil Koeppel. An account of this important monograph, which is the 82d volume of the Strassburg Quellen und Forschungen is given in the Introduction, p. xxxi.
1900. GEORGE CHAPMAN UND DAS ITALIENISCHE DRAMA, A. L. Stiefel. Shakspere Jahrbuch, XXXV. Deals chiefly with the relation between Chapman's May-Day and A. Piccolomini's Alessandro.
1901. LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS BY GEORGE CHAPMAN, BEN JONSON, etc., Bertram Dobell, printed in The Athenaeum, Nos. 3830-3833. These "letters and documents" form part of a small quarto MS. volume of about 90 leaves, containing "copies of letters, petitions, or other documents dating from about 1580 to 1613." Mr. Dobell, to whom their publication is due, considers "that the writer or collector of the documents can have been no other than George Chapman." Six of these letters are reprinted in Prof. Schelling'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 Massacre 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. xxxvi). The most convenient edition of De Thou's History is that published by S. Buckley in 1733.
1615. LES HISTOIRES TRAGIQUES DE NOSTRE TEMPS, Francois de Rosset. The story of Bussy's love for the Countess of Montsoreau, and his murder forms the subject of the 17th Histoire, De la mort pitoyable du valeureux Lysis, the most important parts of which are printed in Appendix A.
1621. JOURNAL DE HENRI III, P. de L'Estoile. Paris.
1628. MEMOIRES ET LETTRES, Marguerite de Valois. Paris. The edition published by F. Guessard for La Societe de l'Histoire de France (1842) is the most convenient.
1666. DISCOURS SUR LES COURONNELS DE L'INFANTERIE DE FRANCE, Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome. Leyden.
1722. DISCOURS SUR LES DUELS, Pierre de Bourdeille, etc. Leyden.
1877. LE MAINE, L'ANJOU ET BUSSY D'AMBOISE, Arthur Bertrand. Le Mans.
1885. LOUIS DE CLERMONT, SIEUR DE BUSSY D'AMBOISE, GOUVERNEUR D'ANJOU, Andre Joubert. Angers and Paris. A full and interesting study of Bussy's career based upon first-hand materials.
1888. BUSSY D'AMBOISE, Leon Marlet. Paris. A sketchy memoir.
IV. HISTORICAL WORKS RELATING TO EPISODES IN THE REVENGE OF BUSSY D'AMBOIS
1597. INVENTAIRE GENERAL DE L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE, Jean de Serres. A later edition in 1603 continues the narrative to the peace of Vervins in 1598. Paris.
1605. HISTOIRE DE FRANCE DURANT SEPT ANNEES DE PAIX DU REGNE DE HENRY IV, Pierre Matthieu. Paris.
1605. CHRONOLOGIE SEPTENAIRE DE L'HISTOIRE DE LA PAIX ENTRE LES ROYS DE FRANCE ET D'ESPAGNE, P. V. Cayet. Paris.
1607. A GENERAL INVENTORIE OF THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, Edward Grimeston. From the beginning of that monarchie unto the treatie of Vervins, in the yeare 1598. Written by Jhon de Serres, And continued unto these times, out of the best Authors which have written of that subject. Translated out of French into English. [A second edition, in 1611, continues the narrative till 1610.] Upon this volume see Introduction, pp. xxxii-xxxv.
Glossary
absolute, perfect.
abus'd, deceived.
additions, titles.
admiration, wonder.
advis'd, cautious, wary.
affect, desire.
allow, allow'd, approve, approved.
amazes, bewilders.
annoy, injure.
antickes, buffoons.
apishnesse, ridiculous imitation.
approves, proves.
Argosea, a large trading vessel.
arguments, proofs.
auchthor, be the agent of.
autenticall, legally valid.
avise, intelligence.
bare, bareheaded.
barks, outer coverings.
basilisks, fabulous reptiles, whose glance was supposed to be fatal.
battailia, order of battle.
belly-gods, gluttons.
brack, breach.
brave, braverie, fine, finery.
bumbast, n., padding.
bumbasts, vb., stuffs out.
case, skin.
cast, (1) p. p., cast off, disused; (2) vb., conjecture.
censure, judge.
challenge, claim.
characters, outward symbols.
check(e) at, (1) take offence at; (2) go in pursuit of. Used technically of a hawk which turns aside from its proper quarry to follow inferior game.
clear, pure, innocent.
close, secret.
coast, travel in circuitous fashion.
colour, pretence.
comfortable, comforting.
companion, base fellow.
conceit, conception, thought.
confirm'd, well-regulated.
consent, sympathy.
contemptfull, contemptible.
cries clinke, strikes the favourable hour.
curious, careful, scrupulous.
decent, appropriate.
denizond, naturalized.
designements, arrangements.
discover, reveal.
disparking, turning park-land into plough-land.
emply, imply.
encompast, taken at a disadvantage.
enseame, bring together, introduce. Cf. Spens. F. Q. IV, II, 35-6, where the word = "includes," "contains together."
errant, productive of wandering.
events, issues.
exhale, draw up, raise.
exhalations, meteors (cf. Jul. Caesar, II, i, 44).
explicate, unfold.
expugn'd, taken by storm.
exquire, find out.
facts, deeds.
fautor, patron.
fivers, variant of fibres.
fleerings, sneers.
forfeit, fault.
foutre, an exclamation of contempt.
fray, frighten.
giddinesse, foolhardiness.
glorious, swelling, boastful.
Gordian, Gordian knot.
graduate, rise by steps.
grasse, graze.
hackster, a prostitute's gallant or protector.
haie, a boisterous country dance.
heartlesse, cowardly.
humourous, full of humours, variable in temper.
idols, images, counterfeits.
ill-favour'd, of unpleasant appearance.
impe, piece out. Used, originally, in hawking, of the process of grafting new feathers on a maimed wing.
implide, variant of employed.
inennerable, indescribable.
informed, moulded, fashioned.
ingenuous, discerning; used mistakenly for ingenious.
injurious, insulting.
innative, native.
intelligencers, spies.
jealousie, suspicion.
jet, strut.
jiggs, farces, jocular performances.
last, a certain weight or quantity of goods. In the case of powder, it represented twenty-four barrels.
let, hinder, prevent.
limit, limitation.
lucerns, hunting dogs. Used in the same sense by Chapman in trans. of Iliad, XI, 417. The usual meaning of the word is lynx.
mall'd, beaten with a mall or mallet, crushed.
manlessly, inhumanly.
maritorious, over-fond of a husband.
mate, match oneself against.
meane, moderation.
mezel'd, leprous, fr. M. E. mesel, < O. F. mesel, mezel, leper, < M. L. misellus, a wretched person.
mere, complete.
misers, wretched persons.
moon-calves, false conceptions.
naps, glossy surfaces on cloth.
naturalls, idiots.
nice, dainty, scrupulous.
nick, notch.
novation, revolution.
openarses, medlars.
ostents, manifestations.
part, depart.
pedisequus, (Lat.) lackey.
peece, firearm, gun.
period, conclusion.
politicall, scheming.
pide, dressed in motley.
prevented, anticipated.
pricksong, music written down with points.
proof, firmness, impenetrability.
put-ofs, excuses.
queich, thicket.
quicke, alive.
randon, earlier and more correct form of random, O. F. randon f. randir, to run fast.
ready, dressed.
rebating, blunting.
rebatoes, ruffs.
rebutters, rejoinders.
reminiscion, remembrance.
remission, forgiveness.
resolv'd, informed.
revoke, call back.
rivality, rivalry.
scapes, escapades.
secureness, carelessness.
seres, claws.
sensive, endowed with sensation.
servant, lover.
several, separate.
shadowes, sunshades, or broad-brimmed hats.
shifters, tricksters, rogues.
skittish, changeable, capricious.
sooth, confirm, approve of.
spice, piece, kind.
spinners, spiders.
splinted, supported.
standish, inkstand.
stillado, rare variant of stiletto.
still'd, distilled.
strappl'd, strapped.
successe, result.
surcharg'd, overladen, vanquished.
swindge, n., sway.
swindging, swinging to and fro.
tall, excellent, brave.
temper, regulate.
touch, censure.
toy, whim.
tracts, tracks, traces.
train, stratagem.
triumphs, pageants.
troe, an exclamation of surprise, added after a question.
trumpet, trumpeter.
trusse, seize (used specially of birds of prey).
warning peece, a shot discharged as a signal.
weather, tempestuous commotion.
weed, garment.
witty, intelligent.
wrack, wreck.
wreak, revenge.
unready, undressed.
vennie, bout at fencing.
Transcriber's Note:
No changes have been made to spelling or punctuation in the plays.
The following corrections have been made to notes and commentary:
page xxxiv—"sequel to his most popular[original has popuular] play"
page xxxvii—"et Monsorellum transactum fuit."[original is missing ending quotation mark]
page xl—"well-known passage (II, i[original has 1], 205 ff.)"
page 298—added missing ending quotation mark in note 188, 335-42.
The following words used an oe ligature in the original:
Noevius Oetaeus oeil Phoenician Oeta
Superscripted letters have been ignored.
The following words were hyphenated across line breaks. They have been rejoined and moved to the upper line. A dash indicates where the word was broken in the original.
Act I. Sc. II., lines 106-7: mis-tresse Act I. Sc. II., lines 200-1: him-selfe Act III. Sc. II, lines 190-1: re-membred Act III. Sc. II, lines 288-9: in-quisition Act III. Sc. II, lines 292-3: there-fore Dedication Letter to Revenge, lines 1-2: es-teemed Dedication Letter to Revenge, lines 6-7: dedica-tion Dedication Letter to Revenge, lines 8-9: great-nesse Dedication Letter to Revenge, lines 14-15: judge-ments Dedication Letter to Revenge, lines 21-22: ele-gant Dedication Letter to Revenge, lines 34-35: pre-sent
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