| Evidence: | [Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson
'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of it.'
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 8 Jun 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Scotland. | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian |
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | lapsed presbyterian |
| Country of origin: | Scotland. |
| Country of experience: | Probably Scotland. |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | Henry V |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Printed 1600; the edition RLS refers to is not indicated. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20404 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis s | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 143 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 395, To Sidney Colvin, [7 or 8 June 1875], Swanston. Co-editor Ernest Mehew, The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis s, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20404, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| In Shakespeare’s Henry V, Corporal Nym, one of Falstaff’s followers, uses the phrase “that is/that’s the humour of it”, or words very similar, 4 times in Act II, i; and once again in II, iii and III, ii. The Editors’ Note 2 on p.143 reads: “Nym uses the phrase several times in HenryV, II, i. RLS seems to mean he is adding the H. because it is his fancy to do so.” |
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