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C. Some Classic Statements
Richard Bentley, A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (1697, 1699).
Samuel Johnson, Preface [to his edition of Shakespeare] (1765). [See Arthur Sherbo's edition, Johnson
on Shakespeare (1968), pp. 59-113.]
Karl Lachmann, T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libros commentarius (1850).
F.J.A. Hort, Introduction [to his and B.F. Westcott's edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek]
(1881, 1896).
Wallace M. Lindsay, An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation (1896).
A.E. Housman, "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism," Proceedings of the Classical
Association 18 (1922 [for August 1921]): 67-84. Reprinted in his Selected Prose, ed. John Carter
(1961), pp. 131-50; The Classical Papers of A.E. Housman, ed. Christopher Diggle and F.R.D.
Goodyear (1972), pp. 1058-69; and Collected Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Christopher Ricks
(1988), pp. 325-39. Also reprinted in Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing, ed. Ronald Gottesman
and Scott Bennett (1970), pp. 1-16.
A.E. Housman, [Preface], in M. Manilii Astronomicon Liber Primus (1903), pp. vii-lxxv. Reprinted in
Carter [see above], pp. 23-44, and in Ricks [see above], pp. 372-87.
R.W. Chapman, "The Textual Criticism of English Classics," in The Portrait of a Scholar and Other
Essays (1920), pp. 65-79 (cf. pp. 48-65).
Hermann Kantorowicz, Einführung in die Textkritik (1921).
Henri Quentin, Memoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate (1922).
Henri Quentin, Essais de critique textuelle (Ecdotique) (1926).
W.W. Greg, The Calculus of Variants (1927).
Paul Maas, "Textkritik," Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft 1.7 (1927): 1-18. Published separately,
revised, 1937, 1950, 1957, 1960; translated by Barbara Flower as Textual Criticism (1958).
Joseph Bédier, "La Tradition manuscrite du 'Lai de l'ombre': reflexions sur l'art d'éditer les anciens textes,"
Romania 54 (1928): 161-96, 321-56. Published separately, 1929.
Paul Collomp, La critique des textes (1931).
R.B. McKerrow, "The Elizabethan Printer and Dramatic Manuscripts," Library 4th ser. 12 (1931-32):
253-75.
Giorgio Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo (1934, 1952).
R.B. McKerrow, "A Suggestion Regarding Shakespeare's Manuscripts," Review of English Studies 11
(1935): 459-65.
R.B. McKerrow, Prolegomena for the Oxford Shakespeare (1939).
W.W. Greg, "McKerrow's Prolegomena Reconsidered," Review of English Studies 17 (1941): 139-49.
W.W. Greg, The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare (1942, 1951), pp. a-b, vii-lv [1951].
Ernest C. Colwell, "Genealogical Method: Its Achievements and Its Limitations," Journal of Biblical
Literature 66 (1947): 109-33. Reprinted in his Studies in Methodology in Textual Criticism of the
New Testament (1969), pp. 63-83.
Ludwig Bieler, "The Grammarian's Craft: A Professional Talk," Folia 2 (1947): 94-105; 3 (1948): 23-32,
47-58. 2nd ed., Folia 10.2 (1958): 3-42. Reprinted as The Grammarian's Craft: An Introduction to
Textual Criticism (1965).
W.W. Greg, "The Rationale of Copy-Text," Studies in Bibliography 3 (1950-51): 19-36. Reprinted in his
Collected Papers, ed. J.C. Maxwell (1966), pp. 374-91; and in Sir Walter Wilson Greg: A Collection
of His Writings, ed. Joseph Rosenblum (1998), pp. 213-28. Also reprinted in Bibliography and
Textual Criticism, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Warner Barnes (1969), pp. 41-58; and Art and Error:
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