A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662)

Joanna Udall

A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662)

Joanna Udall

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright

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MHRA Texts and Dissertations 31

Modern Humanities Research Association

1 January 1991

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Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare ‘Apocrypha’.

The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects.

This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play’s diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.

This book, originally published in paperback in 1991 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-34-0, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.

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i-xii, 1-246	A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q 1662) Joanna Udall Complete volume as single PDF The complete text of this book.	Read

i-xii	A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q 1662): Front Matter Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c59ba31 Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Editions.	Read Cite
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1-10	I - The Birth of Merlin: Text and Printing Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c6aae6e The Quarto of 1662; Source of Copy; Printing; The Text; Evidence for the Nature of the Copy.	Read Cite
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11-22	II - Date, Staging and Stage History Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c6ad9d5 Date; Staging; Dragons and Traps; The Death of Proximus; The Blazing Star; The Rock; Stage History.	Read Cite
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23-32	III - The Question of Authorship Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c7bce1c The Problem; History of Attribution; The Possibilities.	Read Cite
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33-88	IV - The Context: Sources and Analogues Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c8cc1ff Chronicle History and Romance; The Devil and Magic; Modesta and Constantia; The Clown, Joan and Sir Nicodemus Nothing; ‘The Birth of Merlin’ and ‘Cupid’s Revenge’; ‘The Birth of Merlin’ and ‘Hengist King of Kent’.	Read Cite
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89-112	V - The Birth of Merlin and the English History Play Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c051fc6 Introduction; Arthur and Merlin; Vortiger and Rowena.	Read Cite
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113-17	VI - Editing The Birth of Merlin Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c16140d Notes on previous editions, and on editorial practices followed in this one, divided into: Lineation; The Text; Dramatis Personae; Commentary.	Read Cite
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118-81	Text of The Birth of Merlin Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c27046c Photograph and transcript of the title page, the Dramatis Personae, and the complete text of the play.	Read Cite
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182-246	A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q 1662): End Matter Joanna Udall doi:10.59860/td.c37f8b3 Copies collated; Press variants; Textual notes; List of accidentals altered; Lineation; Commentary; Bibliography.	Read Cite
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Udall, Joanna, A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 31 (MHRA, 1991)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Joanna Udall, A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 31 (MHRA, 1991), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: ³⁷ Udall, p. 47.

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Udall, Joanna. 1991. A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 31 (MHRA)

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