A Textual Study of The Faerie Queene (Books I-VII)

本研究的目的是重新审视《仙后》的所有七本书的文本，考虑到最近关于这部作品的书目数据，并以W·W·格雷格的文案理论为基础建立我们的编辑原则。为了达到这一目的，我们选择了第一至第三册的1590年第一版、第四至第六册的1596年第一版和第七册的第一对开本(《Mutabilitie两章》)作为基本文本，并将它们汇编成机器可读的文本文件。我们纠正和校正了这些早期文本中的错误，将它们与后来的旧版本进行了核对，并偶尔查阅现代版本，如J.C.史密斯的牛津版和埃德温·格林洛、C.G.奥斯古德和F.M.帕德尔福德的Variorum版。在编辑文本时，我们做了详细的文本注释，以显示与基础(副本)文本的每一处偏离，包括拼写和标点符号。我们还对媒体的变种进行了调查。我们已经整理了12个不同的…更多的1590年四重奏(第I-III册)，1596年四重奏(第IV-VI册)和1609年对开本的7册(仅第七册)，并列出了一系列出版社的变种，其中一些是新发现的。对1590年四重奏所附勘误表的分析揭示了可能是谁制作的，以及斯宾塞可能在多大程度上参与了校对。详情见《关于1590年仙后四重奏的勘误表》，金津学院的论文和研究，169.38，第105-130页。文章还讨论了理查德·菲尔德的作曲家们在多大程度上遵守了“格律拼写”的规则。在另一篇用日语写的文章中，我们检查了编写者对押韵拼写的处理，得出的结论是，他们并不认为不规则的视觉押韵特别有缺陷，他们认为没有必要纠正不规则的视觉押韵。这篇文章是日本斯宾塞学会即将出版的一本书(将于1997年6月出版)的一部分。较少

The purpose of the present research is to reexamine the texts of all the seven books of The Faerie Queene, taking recent bibliographical data on the work into consideration and basing our editorial principle on W.W.Greg's rationale of copy-text. In order to achieve this purpose, we have chosen as base texts the first edition of 1590 for Books I-III,the first edition of 1596 for Books IV-VI and the first folio edition for Book VII (Two Cantos of Mutabilitie), and compiled them into machine-readable text files. We corrected and emended errors in these early texts, collating them with subsequent old editions and occasionally consulting modern editions such as the Oxford Edition by J.C.Smith and the Variorum Edition by Edwin Greenlaw, C.G.Osgood and F.M.Padelford. In editing the texts, we made detailed textual notes to show every departure from the base (copy) texts, including spelling and punctuation. We also carried out investigations into press variants. We have collated twelve differen … More t copies of the 1590 quarto (Books I-III), fourteen copies of the 1596 quarto (Books IV-VI) and seven copies of the 1609 folio (Book VII only) and made a list of press variants, some of which are new findings.An analysis of the 'Faults Escaped in the Print' or the list of errata appended to the 1590 Quarto revealed who might have made it and how far Spenser might have been involved in proofreading. For details see "A Note on the Errata on the 1590 Quarto of The Faerie Queene, " Treatises and Studies by the Faculty of Kinjo Gakuin University, 169.38, pp.105-130. The paper also discusses to what extent Richard Field's compositors observed the rule about 'metrical spelling'. In another article written in Japanese and contributed to a forthcoming book of Spenserian studies (which is to be published in June, 1997) by the members of Spenser society of Japan, we examined the compositors' treatment of rhyme spellings and concluded that they did not regard irregular visual rhymes as particularly faulty and that they felt no need for correcting. Less