The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0186  Monday, 27 April 2009

From:       Steve Roth <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:       Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 12:48:35 -0700
Subject:    William Scott?

The recent portrait kerfuffle reminds me to ask about an earlier Stanley 
Wells revelation, the mysteriously cloistered William Scott manuscript 
he wrote up in TLS in 2003, which ms (he shared with us in 2005) was 
since transferred to the BL.

http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2005/1872.html

Has anybody done any work on it? I've searched every so often (Expanded 
Academic ASAP, Google Scholar, etc.) with no results. Can't even find it 
in the BL catalogues. There are a couple of passing mentions in books 
(all quoting from the TLS piece), but that's it as far as I can tell.

Do we know who owned it or anything else about provenance?

Has anyone created a facsimile or transcript? (And/or does anyone have 
influence at the BL to move it up in the scanning queue?)

Has anyone written about it at any greater length than the 2003 TLS piece?

Has it suffered the fate of the Dead Sea Scrolls, or Indiana Jones' lost 
ark?

As Professor Wells said in concluding his article, the work is of 
"multifaceted interest to scholars of the literature and language of the 
period ... It is a major addition to the considerable corpus of 
Elizabethan literary criticism . . . It is to be hoped that his work 
will eventually be made available for detailed study in an annotated 
edition."

*Any* availability for detailed study -- even any discussion -- that 
does not require traveling to the BL would be welcome.

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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1867  Monday, 14 November 2005

From: 		Stanley Wells <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: 		Monday, 14 Nov 2005 11:14:33 -0000
Subject: 	William Scoot

There was correspondence a couple of years ago about my article in the
TLS headed 'Shakespeare's First Serious Critic Revealed' concerning the
unpublished and previously unknown manuscript by William Scott (ca.
1579-ca. 1611) entitled "[The Model] of Poesy or the Art of Poesy drawn
into a short or summary discourse.' It may be of interest that the
manuscript has been bought by the British Library and is now available
for consultation.

Stanley Wells


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