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Item Madness in Parts 1 and 2 of 'The honest whore': a case for close reading(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1996-11) Daalder, JoostThe first section of this essay will advance reasons why it is impossible to understand madness in Dekker's 1 and 2 The Honest Whore (c. 1604) without a close textual reading of the kind which some critics call 'old-fashioned' and the second section will demonstrate such a reading.Item The Honest Whore, Part 2(Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, 2015-04-04) Dekker, Thomas; Daalder, Joost (Editor); Hirsch, Brett DThe original printed text of 2 The Honest Whore on which any modern edition is based offers few problems. In the case of 1 The Honest Whore, however, there are two significantly different texts, both issued in 1604, viz. the first quarto (Q1), ‘The Honest Whore ... [etc]’ and a later, significantly revised quarto (Q2), ‘The Converted Curtezan ... [etc]’. The nature, interrelationship, and authority of these two texts have been much discussed, and I shall deal with these matters in some detail.Item The Honest Whore, Part 1(Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, 2015-04-04) Dekker, Thomas; Middleton, Thomas; Daalder, Joost (Editor); Hirsch, Brett D (Editor)Editor's introduction: The original printed text of 2 The Honest Whore on which any modern edition is based offers few problems. In the case of 1 The Honest Whore, however, there are two significantly different texts, both issued in 1604, viz. the first quarto (Q1), ‘The Honest Whore ... [etc]’ and a later, significantly revised quarto (Q2), ‘The Converted Curtezan ... [etc]’. The nature, interrelationship, and authority of these two texts have been much discussed, and I shall deal with these matters in some detail.Item Mandrakes and Whiblins in 'The Honest Whore'(The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1997) Daalder, Joost; Telford Moore, AntonyIn Act I, scene ii of Thomas Dekker's The Honest Whore (1604), there occurs a dialogue between Viola, the wife of the linen-draper Candido, and her brother Fustigo. Fustigo comments that Candido must be either a mandrake or a whiblin. Daalder considers the context in detail in order to evaluate the correct meanings ascribed to these terms in the text.Item Emending “The Changeling”(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1989) Daalder, JoostThis article offers further discussion of considerations arising from editing "The Changeling": an earlier article entitled 'Punctuating "The Changeling"' examined punctuation in the F.W. Bawcutt edition of 1958, while this one focuses on emendations involving words.Item Punctuating “The Changeling”(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1989) Daalder, Joost"The Changeling" was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley in 1622. No manuscript of the play survives, and the earliest printed version dates from 1653, several years after both dramatists had died. The publication rights had meanwhile passed into the hands of Humphrey Moseley, who had it printed by Thomas Newcomb. This paper examines issues of punctuation arising from modernization by the compositor of the quarto printing, and from subsequent editing.Item ‘A jail, a jail’ in Dekker’s "2 Honest Whore”,(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1996) Daalder, JoostThe text of Thomas Dekker's '2 Honest Whore' contains a number of errors which one would expect in a quarto of this kind - in essence publishing errors. This brief paper discusses one such error, crediting Alexander Dyce with the correct emendation of the error in question.Item Breaking the Rules: Editorial Problems in Dekker and Middleton's "The Honest Whore, Part I".(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1996) Daalder, Joost; Telford Moore, AntonyThe immediate aim of this article is three-fold: to give a reappraisal of some of the most important evidence relating to the textual history of "The Honest Whore, Part I" (STC 6501, 6501a, 6502); to present new evidence concerning the text of this play; and to assess the relative authority of the play's two principal early editions. Our ultimate aim, though, is editorial rather than purely bibliographical. The most authoritative edition of "1 Honest Whore" now available, that contained in Fredson Bowers' old-spelling edition of "The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker", is (as we intend to demonstrate) significantly flawed, and it is hoped that the findings presented here will provide a foundation for future editorial efforts to realise a more accurate and authentic text of this underrated play. It should also be made clear that this article is, in a sense, a prolegomenon to the forthcoming Revels Plays edition of "The Honest Whore, Parts I and II", which will be edited by Joost Daalder alone. In other words, this article presents bibliographical material which is too detailed and discursive to be included in the Revels volume, but which is nevertheless essential to a consideration of the textual strategies employed in that edition. At the same time, we hope bibliographers and textual critics will find the article to be of interest in its own right.Item New Variants in the First Part of Dekker's "The Honest Whore"(Oxford University Press, 1995) Daalder, Joost; Telford Moore, AntonyThe first part of "The Honest Whore" has an intriguing textual history. Two quarto editions of the play appeared in 1604. Both bear the imprint of Valentine Simmes, yet each appears to have been the work of no less than three different printing shops. What is more, only half of the second quarto (Q2) is a new edition, the rest being made up of 'standing-type' pages preserved from the first quarto (Q1). Interestingly, too, there are many substantial differences between the texts of Q1 and Q2; and these differences occur both in the standing-type pages and in the pages newly composed for Q2. A fairly high proportion of these variants appear to be authoritative, and may well be authorial.Item Review of 'Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare' by Douglas Bruster(Oxford University Press, 1995) Daalder, JoostReview of Douglas Bruster's book, 'Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare' (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.