PAGE Discussion on Mr Pickersgill's Paper (Mr Aldis Mr Spedding's Postscript to the Richard III. Dis- cussion 123 190 155 V. ON THE BOND-STORY IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, AND A VERSION OF IT IN THE CURSOR MUNDI. BY MISS TOULMIN SMITH. (See Note, p. 457.) 181 VI. NOTE UPON THE "ELF-LOCKS" IN ROMEO AND .. II. DR S. FORMAN'S BOOK OF PLAYS, OR NOTES IN 1611 ÓN SHAKSPERE'S RICHARD II, WINTER'S TALE, CYMBELINE, AND MACBETH; WITH EX- VII. A LIST OF SHAKSPEREANA SINCE JAN. 1, 1874, BY MR FRANZ THIMM NOTE ON 1 Henry IV, II. iii. 90 NOTE ON THE DATE OF Venus & Adonis.. NOTE ON Twelfth Night, II. v. 66-7 ΡΑΟΥ 452 NOTE ON THE BOND- AND CASKET-STORIES IN THE Merchant INDEX (BY W. WILKINS, ESQ., TRIN. COLL., DUBLIN.) SCRAPS, quotations for: brach, buttons, convey, England, face-painting cankered, heels, Inn, in despite of the teeth 199 205 shrewd turn, swabber, swaggerer, tittle-tattle, whist, Witten- homekeeping, eat out of house and home, jack, jump, kecksie or law (the Law allows it'), lone woman, lumpish, meacock, me- old, at quiet,' slaver, tender years, thrasonical, time and tide, 346 all-to, araunt! baggage, bless, bottle of hay, bouncing, brabble in grain, intercessor, jar, kickshaws, linger lubber, lubberly, minion, nipping .. noll, old, pedant, pied, preciseness pricksong, qualified, sluttish, square, sunbright, timely, too-too, 459 unmannerly, uphold, urchin, vengeance! waver, whit, Winches- 460 NOTICES OF MEETINGS, 1875-6. TWELFTH MEETING, Friday, Jan. 8, 1875. F. J. FURNIVALL, ESQ., Director, in the Chair. THE Minutes of the last Meeting were read. The names of the following new Members were read The Rev. Alfred Ainger. Prof. C. Raddatz. Wm Taylor. Bolton Public Lib. and Musm. Geo. Doe. W. W. Ward. C. Rennick. J. S. Philpotts. On the motion of the Director it was resolved unanimously: That the best thanks of the Members of the Society be offered to H. R. H. Prince Leopold, one of the Vice-Presidents, for the gift of the Parallel-Text Edition of Romeo and Juliet, made by his Royal Highness to the New Shakspere Society. It was then further resolved:-That the cordial thanks of the Members be presented to P. A. Daniel, Esq., for the care and diligence which he has bestowed upon the Texts of Romeo and Juliet, edited by him for the New Shakspere Society; the value of Mr Daniel's services being enhanced by the personal sacrifice he has made to remain in England in order to carry out his work for the Society. A vote of thanks was also unanimously passed to Dr C. M. Ingleby, for the gift of 370 copies of his work entitled 'The Still Lion,' and to Mr Furnivall for 500 copies of his "Introduction to 'Gervinus,'" for distribution among the Members. The Director reported that Part II., completing the 'Transactions' for 1874, was now at press, and that the reprints of Henry V, edited by Dr Nicholson, would go to the printer's next week. The Paper for this evening was, 'On the Two Quartos of Hamlet, 1603, 1604,' by the Rev. E. A. Abbott, D.D., and was read by the Author. Dr Abbott contended that the incomplete Quarto of 1603 contained nothing of Shakspere's that was not in the Second Quarto of 1604, and did not therefore represent an earlier state of the play, although it did contain large alterations of Shakspere's work by the Pirate who arranged for press the incomplete notes and recollections of the play shown in the Second Quarto. These alterations were due to the Pirate's desire to make the play more of an acting one, and less of a philosophical one. The thanks of the Meeting were voted to Dr Abbott, and he was unanimously requested to prepare his Paper for printing in the Society's Transactions, although he had not originally intended it to be printed. Mr Furnivall could not persuade himself that the very different view of Hamlet's mother taken by Q1, a view of such great importance in regard to the motive of the play, was due to the compiler of Q1. The change from her innocence in Q1, to the doubt of it in Q2, was Shakspere's change. He believed that Shakspere first partially recast the old Hamlet, and that that recast was more or less represented by Q1. Mr Simpson also held that Q1 represented the old Corambis Hamlet as partially recast. The change of names in Q2 showed it. When Q2 was produced, then the old play would be printed, with, possibly, portions of the new play inserted. Other cases of this occurred. Dr Nicholson and other members also contended that Q1 represented an earlier version of the play than Q2. Dr Abbott admitted that he had perhaps assigned too much to the Pirate in attributing to him the changes-almost recasts--of the characters of the Queen and King, &c.; these were perhaps due to the old play; but he still doubted whether Q1 contained more than one line worthy of Shakspere which was not in Q2. This being the first Meeting in the new year, it was moved, seconded, and resolved : "That the Director, the Members of Committee, and other Officers, be requested to accept the best thanks of the Society for their services during the past year." THIRTEENTH MEETING, Friday, Feb. 12, 1875. F. J. FURNIVALL, Esq., Director, in the Chair. THE following list of new Members was read : Rev. A. C. Auchinuty. G. B. Ackworth. H. R. Ladell. F. M. Bartholomew. C. R. Ward. R. H. Kay. Rev. M. W. Mayow. |