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Willobie his Avisa, 1594 : with an essay on Willobie his Avisa / by G.B. Harrison, M.A.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willoughby, Henry, 1574?-1596? Avisa
- Series:
- Bodley head quartos / ed. by G.B. Harrison. ; no. 15.
- The Bodley head quartos / ed. by G.B. Harrison. ; [no. 15]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
- Raleigh, Walter.
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, approximately 1552-1618.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Biography.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Cerne Abbas (England).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- reprint: (179 pages), 181 unnumbered pages-271 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Lane ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., [1926]
- Notes:
- Reprinted from the original edition in the British museum (239. i. 16)
- With facsimile of the original t.p.: Willobie his Avisa. Or the true Picture of a modest Maid, and of a chast and constant wife. In Hexamiter verse ... Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet. 1594.
- Ostensibly edited by Hadrian Dorrell from the papers of 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, Matthew Roydon, and others. The present editor locates the poem at Cerne Abbas, and ascribes it to a friend of Raleigh.
- Contains an early allusion to Shakespeare, and is supposed to refer to him under the initials W. S.
- Bibliography: pages 184-185.
- Appendix: I. Extracts from the preliminary matter of Penelope's complaint, by Peter Colse -- II. The apologie, shewing the true meaning of Willobie his Avisa, by Thomas Willoby -- III. Depositions of withnesses who gave evidence before the commission held at Cerne Abbas on 21st March, 1594.
- "The original of this text is in the British Museum (239.i.16)."
- OCLC:
- 678546
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