OFFICERS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF

AMERICA FOR THE YEAR 1912

President, CHARLES H. GRANDGENT, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Secretary, WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Tresurer, KARL YOUNG, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

VICE-PRESIDENTS

FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
EDOUARD P. BAILLOT, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
PHILIP S. ALLEN, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

CENTRAL DIVISION

Chairman, FRANK G. HUBBARD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Secretary, CHARLES BUNDY WILSON, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia.

EXECUTIV COUNCIL

THE OFFICERS NAMED ABOVE AND

J. DOUGLAS BRUCE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
ARTHUR G. CANFIELD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
ALBERT B. FAUST, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
MARION D. LEARNED, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
JOHN L. LOWES, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
RAYMOND WEEKS, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

W. G. Howard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
CHARLES BUNDY WILSON, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia.
JAMES W. BRIGHT, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
F. M. WARREN, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

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VII.-Richard the Third, Act I, Scene 4. By ROBERT ADGER LAW, 117-141 VIII. Studies in the Epic Poem Godefroi de Bouillon. By HUGH A.

SMITH,

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VII.-RICHARD THE THIRD, ACT I, SCENE 4

The chief source of Shakespeare's tragedy of Richard the Third has long been acknowledged to be either Hall's or Holinshed's prose Chronicle. In addition, some echoes have been discovered in it of the Latin tragedy, Richardus Tertius, of the anonymous English True Tragedie of Richard the Third, and of Marlowe's play, Edward the Second. But for one of the longest and most impressive scenes in Shakespeare's drama, that in which Clarence in prison meets his death at the hands of two ruffians hired for the deed by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, no source is generally known. For the basis of the entire scene, Hall's Chronicle, which is so close akin to most situations in the play, contains of Clarence's death merely the statement that "attainted was he by parliament and

'The whole subject of sources has been minutely examined by Professor G. B. Churchill in his volume, Richard III up to Shakespeare, Palaestra, No. 10, Berlin, 1900. Source of the Plot" likewise occupies almost a hundred fine-print pages of the Appendix in Furness's Variorum Richard the Third, Philadelphia, 1908.