[313:1]The numbers refer to the pages of Grimeston's volume.
[313:1]The numbers refer to the pages of Grimeston's volume.
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 title-page.]
[Baker in hisBiographia Dramatica(1812)ii, 73, mentions an edition of Bussy D'Ambois in 1616, but no copy of such anedition 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. [VolumeiiicontainsBussy D'Ambois, together withMonsieur D'Olive, and Dekker'sThe Wonder of a KingdomandOld Fortunatus. A short life of Chapman is prefixed toBussy 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 theAthenæum, and grandfather of the present Sir C. W. Dilke.]
1873, 8o.The Comedies and Tragedies of George Chapman.Now first collected, with illustrative notes and a memoir of the author. In three volumes. London. John Pearson York Street Covent Garden. [Vol.iicontainsBussy D'AmboisandThe Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, together withByron's Conspiracie and TragedieandMay-Day. The text ofBussy D'Amboisis, 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 title-page of the 1607 Quarto is faultily reproduced.The Revenge of Bussy D'Amboisis reprinted from the 1613 Quarto, in the original spelling, and with a faulty reproduction of the title-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'sIliadandOdyssey, vol.iii, Poems and Minor Translations, Chatto and Windus. An edition in modernised spelling, and with merelya sprinkling of notes. To vol.iiiis prefixed Mr. A. C. Swinburne'sEssay on the Poetical and Dramatic Works of George Chapman, the finest and most comprehensive study of Chapman's writings.]
1895, 8o.George Chapmanedited, 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 theMermaid SeriescontainsBussy D'AmboisandThe Revenge, together withByron's Conspiracie and TragedieandAll 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'sEssays of John Dryden, vol.i, pp. 244-50, Oxford, 1900.
1691.The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, G. Langbaine. Oxford.
1691.Athenæ Oxonienses, Anthony à 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 passages fromBussy 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 fromThe Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, were added in 1827.
1818.Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth.W. Hazlitt. Lectureiii,On Marston, Chapman, Decker, and Webster.
1821.The Retrospective Review, vol.iv: Article onChapman's Plays. This Article deals with the Tragedies and gives long extracts fromBussy D'Amboisand the two "Byron" plays. It concludes: "The Revenge of Bussy D'Amboiswe regret to saywe 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 hoards 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 onBeaumont and Fletcher and their Contemporaries.
1865.Chapman in seinem Verhältniss zu Shakespeare, F. Bodenstedt.Shakspere Jahrbuch,i, Berlin.
1874.The Cornhill Magazine, July: article onChapman's Dramatic Works.
1875.George Chapman: A critical essay, A. C. Swinburne. A reprint of the Introductory Essay to vol.iiof the Edition of Chapman's works edited by R. H. Shepherd. Chatto & Windus.
1887.The Dictionary of National Biography, vol.x, Article onGeorge Chapmanby 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 StrassburgQuellen und Forschungenis 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'sMay-Dayand A. Piccolomini'sAlessandro.
1901.Letters and Documents by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, etc., Bertram Dobell, printed inThe Athenæum, Nos. 3830-3833. These "letters and documents" form part of asmall 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 ofEastward HoeandThe 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, inThe Athenæum, 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 onGeorge Chapman.
III. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS RELATING TO BUSSY D'AMBOIS
1604-20.Historiæ 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 printedAppendix A, and (lib.cxiii, p. 558) of Renée 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, François 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 forLa 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 Brantôme. 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, André 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 Général 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 années 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.
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. Cæsar,ii, i, 44).
explicate, unfold.
expugn'd, taken by storm.
exquire, find out.
facts, deeds.
fautor, patron.
fivers,variant offibres.
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 ofemployed.
inennerable, indescribable.
informed, moulded, fashioned.
ingenuous, discerning;used mistakenly foringenious.
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. ofIliad,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 ofrandom,O. F.randonf.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 ofstiletto.
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 Notes:The Table of Contents was added by the Transcriber.Spelling and punctuation in the plays are exactly as they appeared in the original.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 note188, 335-42.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-tresseAct I. Sc. II., lines 200-1: him-selfeAct III. Sc. II, lines 190-1: re-membredAct III. Sc. II, lines 288-9: in-quisitionAct III. Sc. II, lines 292-3: there-foreDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 1-2: es-teemedDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 6-7: dedica-tionDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 8-9: great-nesseDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 14-15: judge-mentsDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 21-22: ele-gantDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 34-35: pre-sentPage 164 is blank.
The Table of Contents was added by the Transcriber.
Spelling and punctuation in the plays are exactly as they appeared in the original.
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 note188, 335-42.
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 note188, 335-42.
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-tresseAct I. Sc. II., lines 200-1: him-selfeAct III. Sc. II, lines 190-1: re-membredAct III. Sc. II, lines 288-9: in-quisitionAct III. Sc. II, lines 292-3: there-foreDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 1-2: es-teemedDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 6-7: dedica-tionDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 8-9: great-nesseDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 14-15: judge-mentsDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 21-22: ele-gantDedication Letter to Revenge, lines 34-35: pre-sent
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