Book Series Guide

Author guide

Israel Gollancz Books in Order

Sir Israel Gollancz (1863–1930) was a British philologist and literary scholar, professor of English at King's College London, founding secretary of the British Academy, and director of the Early English Text Society. He edited major medieval English texts, produced influential Shakespeare editions, translated Pearl into modern English, and established the Temple Shakespeare and related series.

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Start with one of these

Pearl: An English Poem of the Fourteenth Century

Best introduction to Gollancz's combined work as editor, textual scholar, and translator.

The Exeter Book: An Anthology of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

A representative major edition of Old English poetry and manuscript scholarship.

The Sources of Hamlet: With an Essay on the Legend

A concise entry point into his Shakespeare criticism.

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Books by series

editorial-series · finished

The Temple Shakespeare

A uniform pocket edition of Shakespeare's plays, edited under Gollancz's general direction with prefaces, glossaries, and notes.

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  1. 1
    The Temple Shakespeare

    Book 1 · editorial-series-edition · 1894

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editorial-series · finished

Select Early English Poems

A series of edited early and Middle English poems issued by Oxford University Press under Gollancz's editorship.

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    Cleanness: An Alliterative Tripartite Poem on the Deluge, the Destruction of Sodom, and the Death of Belshazzar

    Book 2 · edition · 1921

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  2. 4
    St. Erkenwald: Bishop of London, 675–693

    Book 4 · edition · 1922

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    Patience: An Alliterative Version of Jonah

    Book 3 · edition · 1924

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Edited works (4)
  1. Hoccleve's Works: The Minor Poems in the Ashburnham MS. Addit. 133

    co-edited-edition · 1892

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  2. The Exeter Book: An Anthology of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

    edited-anthology · 1895

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  3. A Book of Homage to Shakespeare

    edited-collection · 1916

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  4. The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

    edited-translation · 1925

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Posthumous collections (2)
  1. Mum and the Sothsegger

    posthumous-co-edited-edition · 1936

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  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    posthumous-edition · 1940

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Other (7)
  1. Pearl: An English Poem of the Fourteenth Century

    edition-and-translation · 1891

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  2. Cynewulf's Christ: An Eighth-Century English Epic

    edition · 1892

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  3. The Parlement of the Thre Ages

    edition · 1897

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  4. Doctor Faustus

    edition · 1897

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  5. Cover of Hamlet in Iceland: Being the Icelandic Romantic Ambales Saga
    Hamlet in Iceland: Being the Icelandic Romantic Ambales Saga

    scholarly-study · 1898

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  6. The Sources of Hamlet: With an Essay on the Legend

    scholarly-study · 1926

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  7. The Caedmon Manuscript of Anglo-Saxon Biblical Poetry: Junius XI in the Bodleian Library

    facsimile-edition · 1927

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