Introduction
Notes Introduction 1 The Historie of Troylus and Cressida. As it was acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants at the Globe. Written by William Shakespeare (London: G. Eld for R. Bonion and H. Walley, 1609), sig. A2. 2 The OED dates the use of `commodity' to mean `a thing of use or advantage to mankind; esp. in pl. useful products, material advantages, elements of wealth', to 1400 (OED 5). 3 Shakespeare, The Poems, ed. John Roe (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), Dedication of Venus and Adonis to Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, line 11. The import- ant new editions of the narrative poems edited by Colin Burrow and Katherine Duncan-Jones unfortunately were not published in time for me to consult them for this book. On the publication history of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece see F. T. Prince (ed.), Shakespeare, The Poems (1960, The Arden Shakespeare; London and New York: Routledge, 1988): pp. xi±xx; Roe (ed.), Shakespeare, The Poems, pp. 287±92, and Harry Farr, `Notes on Shakespeare's Printers and Publishers with Special Reference to the Poems and Hamlet', The Library,4th series, 3:4 (March 1923): 225±50. 4 My figures are based on the table of Shakespeare quartos printed in The Shakspere Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Shakspere from 1591±1700 eds. C. M. Ingleby, L. Toulmin Smith, F. J. Furnivall et al. (London: Humphrey Milford and Oxford University Press, 1932), 2 vols, vol. 2, pp. 520±3. 5 My figures are based on Peter Beal (ed.), Index of Literary Manuscripts.
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