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Named Person: | William Shakespeare |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens; Alexander Pope; Theobald, Mr.; William Warburton; Nicholas Rowe; Richard Farmer; Charles Bathurst; George Vertue |
OCLC Number: | 2864413 |
Notes: | "This edition, in which were united ... Dr. Johnson with ... George Steevens, superseded all previous editions and became the standard for future editors and publishers"--Lowndes (Jaggard, p. 504). Volume 1 with a general title page. Each volume with a volume title page; volumes 2-10 with divisional half-titles; each play with a divisional play half-title. Volume 1 with the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, and Warburton, and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe. Volume 8 with two appendices, the second by Richard Farmer. Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit. |
Description: | 10 v. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 21 cm (8vo) |
Contents: | v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 5. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV -- v. 6. King Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus -- v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello. |
Other Titles: | Plays. |
Responsibility: | to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens ; with an appendix. |
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