Item 1 - Note by W. W. Skeat of a passage in Wyclif’s Works, to illustrate a phrase in Hamlet

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Reference code

Add. MS b/74/16/1

Title

Note by W. W. Skeat of a passage in Wyclif’s Works, to illustrate a phrase in Hamlet

Date(s)

  • 1871? (Creation)

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1 single sheet

Context area

Name of creator

Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
(1831-1914)

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Content and structure area

Scope and content

(The note relates to the phrase ‘Let the galled jade wince’ (Hamlet, III. ii. 231-2). It was probably sent to Aldis Wright when he was working on the Clarendon Press edition of the play, published in 1872. The edition of Wyclif cited is that of 1871, and… read more

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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.