CONTENTS Articles and Notes are arranged by subject in chronological order ARTICLES PAGE 33 287 ROMANTICIZING THE PAST IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH Athelston. By Elaine M. Treharne FRENCH AND ITALIAN SOURCES FOR RALEGH’S ‘FAREWELL FALSE LOVE’. By Jonathan Gibson BESS CAREY’S PETRARCH: NEWLY DISCOVERED ELIZABETHAN SONNETS. By Katherine Duncan-Jones SHYLOCK’S SOBER HOUSE. By Roy Booth SHYLOCK’S GENDER: JEWISH MALE MENSTRUATION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. EAE ACI RCN oh I gsc SAR DSP a eins ea aide eee eee aan SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH EQUITY JURISDICTION: The Merchant of Venice AND THE TWO TEXTS OF King Lear. By B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol .... HAMLET’S ACCOUNT OF THE PIRATES. By David Farley-Hills.......... ELEGIAC VOICES: WORDSWORTH, TURNER, AND RUSKIN. By Dinah Birch RADICAL METRE: THE ENGLISH HEXAMETER IN CLOUGH’S Bothie of Toper-na- Fuosich. By Joseph Patrick Phelan ARNOLD ON EMPEDOCLES. By John Woolford STEVENSON’S ‘STERLING DOMESTIC FICTION’: ‘THE BEACH OF FALESA’. By Roslyn OPINION ‘ALTERITY’ AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE. By J. A. Burrow NOTES What is ‘Sumer is icumen in’? By G. H. Roscow The Opening of Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: A Diptych. By Colin Wilcockson Musing on Mutability: A Poem in the Welles Anthology and Hoccleve’s The Regement of Princes. By Nicholas Perkins 4¢ da Old versus New Spelling: John Lyly—A Special Case? By Leah Scragg.. 5 ]a The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 50, No. 200 (1999) © Oxford University Press 1999 Vill CONTENTS ‘Upon Julia’s Clothes’: Herrick, Ovid, and the Celebration of Innocence. By John Roe Early Expectations of Dryden’s Translation of Virgil (1697) on the Continent. By John Barnard Oliver Goldsmith and Frangois-Ignace Espiard de la Borde: An Instance of Plagiarism. By Michael Griffin Indolent Minds, Indolent Men, and ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’. By Richard Marggraf Turley REVIEW ARTICLES The Stirling/ South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg, Vols. 1-4, general editor Douglas S. Mack. By Fiona Stafford... 66 Frances Brooke, The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton; Elizabeth Griffith, The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves; Charlotte Smith, Desmond, edited by Antje Blank and Janet Todd; Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art, edited by Shawn L. Maurer; Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II, edited by Patricia Springborg. By Jane Spencer The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. VITT, 1856-1858, edited by Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson. By T. J. Cribb CORRESPONDENCE A comment on Edward Wilson’s review of The Knight on his Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. By Piotr Sadowski CD Ns Susilhis 5 Niletn cel edermnel econ atk anes eae BIRR Bete ere ae , LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED SUMMARY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE yD Carr