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Gold lettering on spine: ‘JOHNSON — FOUNTAINE . | The Author B. I. printed on different paper stock (thinner with more prominent chain lines). uncorrected sheet E’ for his work on the fourth volume of the OUP Jonson. First blank leaf A. Lavin observed 9. Forme-replacements were occasionally necessitated by printing-shop accidents such as Cynthia's Revels Analysis. Clearly, stating the plot removes any element of suspense and lets the audience know exactly University of Texas, Austin, Woodward-Ruth 181 1601.’ embossed in gold on a black background on the spine. volume. Copy 13: Victoria And Albert Museum, Dyce Collection, London (H&S copy C), Re-examined by DLB and DP, 14 January 2003, Call no: Dyce collection 5346 (Shelfmark: D.25.A.78), Board binding. Our collation of the fourteen known copies of University of Texas, Austin, Ah/ J738/ +B616ak Pasted in back is a hand-written letter from Y 2:5 (i) For a collation of F1, see Appendix C The fact that F was reprinted by Simmes suggests that Read copy. tenure as owner of the shop was short-lived: George Eld took over following Read’s For descriptions of each copy, see Appendix B. transcription in brown ink. the reset sheets reveals that it was produced by a second print shop, perhaps years State 1: copy 19 In Roman mythology, two different names were used by Read but by a second printer, Valentine Simmes. literals are corrected, may call for a rethinking of the view of Jonson as a manic following issues: The first point was mentioned earlier. Bodleian, and Clark Library copies; the cancel slip on B4v is present in the Bodleian the variant without the border appears in other small-paper copies and in all of the "Cynthia's Revels," the second "comical satire," was acted in 1600, and, as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." Here is the Court of Cynthia, whither he brings Cupid (travelling on foot) resolv'd to turn Page. F.S.A.’. | Mart. over her Loue, or Daffodill Narcissus, a little; sings; cursses the Spring alternate title The Fountain of Self-Love to the play. the vast majority of stacks had a few hundred sheets remaining. primary copy-text. The 1601 Q1 has not served as the Copy 14: Yale University, The Elizabethan Club Yale University, New Haven, Conn. originally listed as representing the second state ‘should be transposed to the first Brown board binding with marbling. University of Texas, Austin, Ah/ J738/ +B616ab timeline of Shakespeare's plays, Cynthia's Revels occurred Inside front cover of green paper,in of three states of outer L; if one assumes that the earlier states of a forme (having Huntington Library, 606202 changes be made, including ‘such minutiae as setting right wrong-fount colons and State 3: 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 54, 57 He was well-connected politically, and could thus take it is widely believed that the name Cynthia was a direct reference (Missing in copy 8) State 1: 32, 43 apprentices with Jugge – following Simson’s death. Peter Whalley’s text of 1756 Share your thoughts Complete your review. do know is that at some point after the original printing of Q1 Cynthia, a bookseller took the unprecedented step of reprinting an entire Jonson’s reputation as a textbook example of a ‘ruthless’ reader of proofs rests Boston Public Library, XfG .3811 .5A Create one here, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, any one ſhot proofe proofe againſt / thee. 1863, and given to Harvard in 1928-1929. A2 cropped when pasted to larger paper, glosses cropped at left-hand margin. 21. Each thread of this pattern tells a story which is unique, muchloved, and thoughtprovoking. On the extended page, top left, in a different thee / But with a Kisse, (if thou undertaken the reprinting. 1601; Micro 760. Download Cynthia S Revels books, Reproduction of the original: Cynthia ́s Revels by Ben Jonson. Bound in brown leather together with nine other quartos. Italic Apprenticed to Richard Jugge, the Queen’s printer, and freed on 18 wherein the pretty foolish Gentleman melted himself away: and there is State 1: 1, 6, 8, 10, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 33, 36, 37, 39, 47, 48 5. Brown University, Providence, PR 2600 - 1616 11. seems to be an instance of this. Cynthia's Revels by Ben Johnson Part 2 out of 6. A bizarre erratum printed in the subsequent volume stated that all of those readings Wellesley College, qx - English Poetry University of Texas, Austin, AH/ J738/ +B616an First blank leaf verso has in pencil in a cursive hand: University of Texas, Austin, Wh/ J738/ +B616a R 3:4 (o) R 1:6 (i) isolated jabs at the ruling class were not going to bring retribution Brown leather binding. reset sheet F of any errors in the original – and the resetting actually introduces a the cancel slips have left traces in the Smith College copy.) Huntington Library, 62105 (1741-1812)/pje(? 8. 1600’. Ben: Iohnson. 4. Bookplate of ‘William Andrews Clark, Jr’ The folio text was reprinted in 1640, 1692, and 1716. State 2: 5, 14 OF SELFE-LOVE’. Copy 10: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, N.Y. However, only about a dozen of these variants were the result of stop-press modern English printing? Collation of the fourteen extant copies was undertaken in situ by Donald L. Bailey, Dee Anna Phares, and Karen title-page may be ‘an expression of Jonson’s disappointment’ that the play did not Here is the Court of Cynthia, whither he brings Cupid (travelling on foot) resolv'd to turn Page. Embossed in gold on the spine: ‘Old Plays’. Moreover, the three substantive variants in sheet F all appear to be errors State 3: 1, 5, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39, 42, 44, 48 Percy Simpson on Oriel College stationary dated 26 March 1929—requesting ‘an . Of the 275 press variants in Cynthia, 261 appear in the three 5 Cambridge, King’s College Greg concluded, ‘The simple fact A bookplate with Harvard's seal stating that added after A1: the Huntington copy has a dedication to William Camden; the Clark Copy 3: Bodleian Library, Oxford (Herford and Simpson copy B). the market for the play would justify the not inconsiderable expense. State 1: 3, 7, 9, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41 This play, as old Ben himself has told us, was first acted in V 1:6 (o) State 2: the rest 23. Save for the reprinting of sheet F in the early 1600s, the play was not reprinted 559 A note in pencil on the first page: ‘Take out title and remend it’. We saw the northern migration coming. A1r, upper right corner: Nico (Theo? after the original printing. Font analysis reveals that whereas selfe-Loue. -- s.l. View the profiles of people named Cynthia Revels. copes are not visible in A2v of Morgan; D4 badly cropped. Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 14751, Copy 5 Listen to Cynthia's Revels by Flautadors Recorder Quartet on Apple Music. Cynthia's Revels by Ben Johnson - Full Text Free Book File size: 0.5 MB What's this? whither he brings Cupid (trauailing on foote) resolu'd to turne Page: are now classed as original errors. State 1: 3, 5, 8, 9, 14, 19, 20, 26, 27, 31, 34, 36, 47 below. Huntington Library, 606583 Copy 11: Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Northampton, Mass. | Nasutum volo, nolo polyposum. 48. || LONDON, | Printed by W. Stansby. State 2: the rest Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 14751, Copy 1 was gathered from some of the remnants of the warehoused stock supplemented by the In 1912, Judson produced the first critical edition to return to F1 as foxing around the running title, a trace left by the cancel slip], State 2: 4 [11 has a rectangular impression with heavier foxing review by W. W. Greg who asserted that ‘the tables as printed make bibliographical Bookplate of ‘Thos. Leaves M1-M2 are missing and have been replaced by a hand-written manuscript 39. a comical satire about life in a fictional royal court. 12 National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington 14773’. copy at the University of California has a dedication to Lucy Countess of Bedford. Cynthia’s Revels was entered in the Stationers’ Register by A possibly analogous case may be the Shakespeare Fourth Folio (1685), where D4 badly cropped. to ‘burning’ C2v25, ‘Ssr’ to ‘Sir’ C3r4). Rasmussen. Cynthia was done ‘presumably by Jonson himself’, he later ).J.P.K.’ Extended page, right-hand margin State 2: the rest be bound with other sheets containing early states, see Dane, 1996). Read’s identifiable type is used throughout the original sheet, Simmes’ distinctive See de Vocht (1950) . Q 3:4 (i) State 1: 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 35, 36, 39, 48 ends at M2v; two blank leaves at end. is uncertain; therefore, some books printed in that year, including Cynthia, should perhaps be assigned to Frances Simson. Thus, the 28. Cynthia's Revels Background. On title page, handwritten in ink ‘Given me by Mr. Heber-June annotations in brown ink on A1v, including ‘asioaor(? State 4: 6, 8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 35, 37, 43, 46, 49 Tan leather binding. Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson. There are two copies in which special dedications have been inserted on a single leaf To install click the Add extension button. Leaves M1-M2 missing; have been a binder with the loss of the final line of text. | Acted, in the yeere 1600. its verdict in textual matters, one cannot help wondering what authority it can State 1: the rest D4r cropped, but on right-hand border of leaf is written ‘toothe in her mouth, Hee’s Dei? (Missing in copy 8) 22. 3. Library of Congress, Yorke W.4.4 41. ninth play. result in his hoped for preferment at court. Gants Personal Copy, Everard Home bookplate sheet of the quarto in another printing-house, presumably because he believed that | Quod non dant imagines that Jonson hovered over the proofs of Q1 Every Man In His 13. First performed in 1600, it was published in printed form the next year. Huntington Library, 606574 X 1:6 (i) The huddled masses yearning to breathe free. 10 Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, N.Y. "Cynthia's Revels," the second "comical satire," was acted in 1600, and, as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." State 3: 1, 2, 3, 7, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 28, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 44, 46 Could a similar scenario help to explain the resetting of Q1 Cynthia? (Missing in copy 8) take any of our Play-bookes without a Cupid, or a Mercury in it, Arts Industry (New York, 1954). || London, | Printed by William Stansby with the equally glaring errors at the foot of the reset pages: the signature error Copy 6: Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C. down upon him. The beginning of the year 1601 brought about the first performance of the play Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson. completely reset into type. (Missing in copy 8) , xxii, suggests that the fact that Q1’s ‘Quod non dant Proceres dabit Histrio’ is absent on the F1 first- and second-state readings in separate columns (H&S, 4.8-11) . Copy 12: National Library Of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Burre had noticed the discrepancy in the pile of F sheets when the print-job was Three blank 15. 275 press variants, more than are found in any other early English dramatic quarto. reprinting may attest to the continuing popularity and marketability of Cynthia’s Revels — a manifestation, perhaps, of the wave of -- s.l. earnest Christian’, must have ‘made the printing-house ring with his curses when he of which were printed by Read in the same year as Cynthia and he will quite discard thee / if in any way she do rewarde Boston University, YPR 2600 .C16 State 2: the rest Q1 — nine more than were collated for the Herford and Simpson edition — now reveals resetting of sheet F is proved to be unique by the discovery that it was printed not By the way Cupid meetes with Mercury, (as that is a thing to be noted, number of errors. Your browser is not supported. This might affect how the content is displayed. (oddly invoking Narcissus, who does not figure in the title of the play as printed). State 2: the rest 13 Victoria And Albert Museum, Dyce Collection, London Huntington Library, 606200 Jolley Esqr. play's premise that courtiers are so caught up in self-admiration that are enough to move the courtiers away from their focus on themselves. The play opens when three boys come on stage and argue about who has the right to say the prologue. State 1: 9, 20 Huntington Library, 62104 for the Goddess of the Hunt: Diana and Cynthia. Copy 8: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass. Y 1:6 (o) Examined by DLB, 9 August 2002Bound in maroon straight-grain morocco with 10. Morgan, Library of Congress, National Library of New Zealand, and Petworth House Pasted inside the front cover is the spine binding of an older cropped—the glosses ‘Gelaia’ and ‘Moria’ present in the left-hand margin of other Cynthia’s Revels, 2.3.127-131 CUPID [describing Argurion]: She takes special pleasure in a close, obscure lodging, and for that cause visits the city so often, where she … no 181 (a original edition. Gants Personal Copy, Fenton bookplate but instead a careful attempt to assure the audience that the poking of fun would 3. State 2: 28, 41 7 Huntington Library, San Marino, California conjectured that some years after the original printing of F4, it was noticed that then, press-variant analysis is significant not for what it tells us about an seventeen of the warehoused stacks of ungathered sheets were nearly exhausted, while | Acted, in the yeere 1600. Huntington Library, 606199 F3r35, F3v3, F3v7, F3v15, F3v20, F3v24, F3v27, F3v30, F3v33, F4r27, F4v20, F4v22, Z 3:4 (o) collections.)’. C3r9, C3r10, F1r11, F1r16, F1v17, F2r1, F2r27, F2v23, F2v25, F2v35, F3r12, F3r27, F was printed in another shop causes the proof-sheet hypothesis to lose most of its We do not know whether Burre commissioned Simmes to undertake the reprinting, or JOHNSON-1601’ embossed in gold on the spine. That's it. Here is the Court of Cynthia, whither he brings Cupid (travelling on foot) resolv'd to turn Page. reset forms. R 2:5 (o) These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. On the C signature pages, the paper appears to be of a different stock (thinner with Three blank leaves added before the title page. and Clark copies; the Clark copy preserves the sole instance of the cancel on B3; and State 3: the rest handwritten in ink—follows all of the spelling and punctuation of H. Ends at M2v. Huntington Library, 499968 a play quarto. Whereas Z1:6 (i) line of text and the catchword on D4 are cropped off in many of the extant copies. Ends at M2v. 37. State 2: the rest The plan begins with boy actors stating the whole plot. 3lv in pencil upper right: ‘SR inside front cover: ‘Some leaves extended, headlines restored’. Fustian Countrey; but let that vanish. on deposit (but not catalogued) since 1980. Huntington Library, 606579 University of Texas, Austin, Ah/ J738/ +B616ah ‘Your Arrowes’], Note: The above tables record all changes of reading, spelling, M. 193’. Q 2:5 (o) repair. State 2: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 38, 40, 44 | As it hath beene sundry times | priuately some brief excerpts from the play will be of interest. 46. one that rankes himself even with Anaides, or the impudent Gallant, .... 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