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Details

Additional authors

1. Willoughby, Henry, 1574?-1596?
2. Dorrell, Hadrian.
3. Hughes, Charles.
4. Willoughby, Thomas.
5. Colse, Peter.

Description

1. xxxviii, 164 pages : facsimiles; 23 cm

Subject

1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Contents

1. Introduction.--Willobie his Avisa.--Appendixes : A. The Apologie, shewing the true meaning of Willobie his Avisa / [signed] Hadrian Dorrell.--B. The victorie of English Chastitie, Under the fained name of Avisa / [signed] Thomas Willobie frater Henrici Willoby nuper defuncti.--C. Dedication and Introductory verses to Penelope's complaint / [by Peter Colse].

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. 500 copies printed.
2. With reproductions of original title-page : [1] Willobie his Avisa. Or the true picture of a modest maid, and of a chast and constant wife. In hexamiter verse. The like argument whereof, was neuer hereto fore published. Read the preface to the reader before you enter farther...Imprinted at London by John Windet, 1594. [a] Penelope's complaint or a mirror for wanton minions, taken out of Homer's Odissea, and written in English verse by Peter Colse... London, Printed by H. Jackson dwelling in Fleet-street, and are to be sold at his shop under Temple-barre gate. 1596.
3. Ostensibly edited by Hadrian Dorrell from the papers left by his friend Henry Willoughby; thought to be the work of Dorrell himself, though the name is probably fictitious. Has been ascribed to the Earl of Southampton and others.
4. "The cumulative evidence makes it almost certain that the W.S. of the poem stands for William Shakespeare." cf. p. xxvii.
5. The text of the Avisa has been prepared by collating Dr. Grosart's edition (1880) with the 1594 edition in the Britih museum. Appendies A and B are "from 1596 edition of 'Avisa' as reprinted in 1635 edition". Appendix C is "printed from the unique copy in the possession of A. H. Huth esq."