The Busie Body eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 101 pages of information about The Busie Body.

The Busie Body eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 101 pages of information about The Busie Body.

 8.  Rapin’s De Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684). (II, 3)
    [#14495]

 9.  T. Hanmer’s (?) Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736). 
    (III, 3) [#14899]

10.  Corbyn Morris’ Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
    etc.
(1744). (I, 4) [#16233]

11.  Thomas Purney’s Discourse on the Pastoral (1717). (II, 4) [#15313]

12.  Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood
    Krutch. (III, 4) [#16335]

Third Year (1948-1949)

13.  Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), The Theatre (1720). (IV, 1) [#15999]

14.  Edward Moore’s The Gamester (1753). (V, 1) [#16267]

15.  John Oldmixon’s Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley
    (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’s The British Academy (1712). 
    (VI, 1)

16.  Nevil Payne’s Fatal Jealousy (1673). (V, 2) [in preparation]

17.  Nicholas Rowe’s Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear
    (1709). (Extra Series, 1) [#16275]

18.  Aaron Hill’s Preface to The Creation; and Thomas Brereton’s
    Preface to Esther. (IV, 2) [#15870]

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[Errors and Anomalies Noted by Transcriber: 

Introduction (1949): 
  it is unreasonable to expect...
    text reads is it...

Dedication: 
  Lord-President of Her HAJESTY’s most / Honourable Privy-Council.
    so in original

Act I
  Ad I long to know their Secrets.
    The word “ad” with related forms ("adod”) occurs several times
    in the play

  Sir Jealousie Traffick
    The name occurs twice in this form.

Act II
  Enter Mirand_._
    The name occurs in this form four times:  twice where the full form
    
Miranda_ is expected, twice in place of its usual abbreviation
    Miran.

  Sir Geo. Whate’er her Reasons are for disliking a me
    reading “a” uncertain

Act II scene iii
  (Beat’s Marplot_ all this while he cries Thieves._
    punctuation and typography as in original

Act II scene iv
  Sir Fran. No, that’s a Miracle!  But there’s one thing you want...
    text reads one thing you wan’t

  Miran. The Gardner describ’d just such another Man
    text gives two consecutive lines to Marplot

Act IV scene ii
  (Isabinda throws her self down before the Closet-door as in a Sound.
    so in original:  swound?

Act IV scene iv
  Enter Sir Francis_ and Marplot
    text reads Marplott

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