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“... himself on the headline ‘Ithacans Vow Pen Is Champ’. In his delightful essay-length book, Fredson Bowers & The Irish Wolfhound,* J.C.C. Mays draws attention to the centrality of the parergon or ‘by-work’ in the Irish tradition: the circumstantial accidents of textual presentation often dictate ‘how meaning is realised – ceases to be inert ...”

“... work in bibliography and textual criticism (properly so-called) during this century. McKenzie has Fredson Bowers particularly in mind here, whose position – that ‘historical bibliography is not, properly speaking, bibliography at all’ – McKenzie stands opposed to. In the course of McKenzie’s critique, however, he glances at the larger issues ...”

“... of being published by Harvard University Press under the editorship of Frederick Burkhardt and Fredson Bowers. Filled with his affectionate concreteness, and often solicitously conversational in tone, the philosophical essays are meant to be anti-intellectualist, in so far as ‘intellectualism’, a term he uses with some of the pejorative ...”

“... MLA) give up its footling attempts to produce definitive texts of the sort that would satisfy Fredson Bowers and aim instead for popular texts, with less scholarly apparatus, emulating the Pléiade library. Epstein ‘arranged the details of design, format, production and distribution as well as the financial structure’ of the Library of ...”

“... without modern editorial interferences except for line numbers, should look there. In 1965 Fredson Bowers, who more or less inherited Greg’s authority, took a look at the problem in the light of the enormous recent expansion of bibliographical techniques, in part at least brought on by himself. Though he did not deny that an original-spelling ...”

“... other critical editions? The fundamental, and traditionally accepted, principle was well stated by Fredson Bowers: ‘In all cases when a definitive edition is proposed for a dramatist, or other author, of no matter what century, we should insist a. that it be critically edited, and b. that in its texture of accidentals, as well as in its words, it ...”

“... about the play, based largely on the studies of Leo Kirschbaum (1946), W.W. Greg (1950) and Fredson Bowers (1973). But a consensus is not necessarily the truth, and any serious attempt to tackle anew the textual problems of Faustus is to be welcomed. When the tackling is done by that great and maverick scholar William Empson, it is even more ...”