SCROLL
DOWN to the bottom of the page and CLICK ON Resources
CLICK
ON Manuscript
1. Who was the first editor of Billy Budd to produce an edition to be
mass produced for a large audience?
2. What year was this edition
published?
3. According to the author of
this web site, what problems did Weaver add to the already difficult problem of
understanding Melville’s text?
4. According to this web site, what errors did F. Barron
Freeman commit in the text that he produced?
CLICK
ON Harrison Hayford and Merton Sealts
5. Who are the editors of the version of Billy Budd commonly accepted as the most
accurate scholarly edition?
6. What year was their edition published?
7. Read the “Editor’s
Introduction: Growth of the
Manuscript.” According to Hayford and
Sealts, what is the most accurate way to describe the Billy Budd manuscript that Mrs. Melville found at Melville’s death?
ACCORDING TO HAYFORD AND
SEALTS, MELVILLE COMPOSED BILLY BUDD
IN A SERIES OF STAGES. EXPLAIN THE
STAGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF BILLY BUDD
USING THE FOLLOWING DATES. BE SURE TO
INCLUDE THE CHARACTER(S) ADDED OR EMPHASIZED AT EACH STAGE:
8. 1886
9.
1886-1887
10.
November 1888
11. Scroll down to “History of
the Text/Three Major Errors.” What is
the source of the major errors that Hayford and Sealts find in Freeman’s
edition?
12. Explain why the Hayford and
Sealts edition calls Captain Vere’s vessel The
Bellipotent.
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BACK TWICE. CLICK ON Nautical References
13. Which direction is the bow of
a ship?
14. Which direction is the stern?
15. Which direction is port?
16. Which direction is starboard?
17. How many “rates” were there
for line-of-battle ships in the Royal Navy in 1797?
18. What rate is the Bellipotent?
19. What is a “seventy-four”?
Name the three masts on a
three-masted ship:
20.
21.
22.
23. Who usually spends their time
on the quarter-deck?
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BACK and CLICK ON Warships
24. CLICK ON
the second picture in the column of pictures on the left—a British
seventy-four. What has the ship’s crew
done with the lower sails? (USE THE
CORRECT NAVAL JARGON!)
CLICK
ON the last small picture. Then GO BACK and CLICK ON here.
25. Who was Horatio Nelson?
26. How did Nelson die?
27. Where is Trafalgar and what
happened there?
28. What was Nelson’s famous
signal to his men at the Battle of Trafalgar?
29. What were Nelson’s last
words?
You are now in the section
called “Allusions.” Scroll through
this section and explain, in your own words, the following allusions:
30. Articles of War
31. Mutinies: Nore:
“the Great Mutiny”
32. Mutinies: the
U.S.S. Somers
33. Mutinies: Spithead
34. Biblical Allusions: Abraham and Isaac
35. Mythical Allusions: Chiron and Achilles
Works
Cited
All Rights Reserved. Northside Independent School District. November 2005
Background from www.grsites.com
Graphics
from http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/melville.htm,
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~rwhealan/jfk/jfk-manofsea-6.html, http://www.admiralnelson.org/
