Synopses & Reviews
Hawlin and Burnett present the final volume in this three volume Oxford edition of Browning's great murder-story, The Ring and the Book. The commentary in this edition contains a wealth of new contextual material that illuminates Browning's work in sometimes surprising ways. The copy text of 1888-9, the final edition of Browning's lifetime, has been scrupulously examined, both in relation to compositors' errors, and Browning's own final corrections to the text.
Review
"An extraordinary work, both in its meticulous textual scholarship and in the detail of its attention to Browning's own exceptionally detailed imagining of the past. Stefan Hawlin and Tim Burnett have delivered Browning's major long poem in wonderfully pristine form, and their exemplary annotations leave only the mysteries which were present from the beginning."--imes Literary Supplement
Review
"An extraordinary work, both in its meticulous textual scholarship and in the detail of its attention to Browning's own exceptionally detailed imagining of the past. Stefan Hawlin and Tim Burnett have delivered Browning's major long poem in wonderfully pristine form, and their exemplary annotations leave only the mysteries which were present from the beginning."--imes Literary Supplement
Table of Contents
Textual Notes to Books IX-XII
References and Abbreviations
The Ring and the Book, Books IX-XII
Introduction to Book IX
Book IX: Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius
Introduction to Book X
Book X: The Pope
Introduction to Book XI
Book XI: Guido
Introduction to Book XII
Book XII: The Book and the Ring
Appendices
Appendix A: The Cadaver Synod
Appendix B: Yale Variants
Appendix C: Compositors
Afterword: The Truth Behind the Franceschini Murder Case, Michael Meredith and Simonetta Berbeglia