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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens; Isaac Reed; Alexander Pope; Thomas Hanmer, Sir; William Warburton; Theobald, Mr.; Nicholas Rowe; Edmond Malone; Charles Bathurst |
OCLC Number: | 3081859 |
Notes: | The first edition edited by Isaac Reed (Jaggard, p. 504). Volume 1 with general title page; volumes 2-10 with volume half-titles; each volume with volume title pages; each play with divisional half-titles. Volume 1 with engraved portraits after Droeshout, and Marshall; as well as an unlettered illustration of the Globe Theatre. King Henry IV, part 2 with a folded engraving lettered: Morris dancers, J. Keyse Sherwin sculpsit. Some plays with woodcuts illustrating editorial notes. Twelfth-night with music. Volume 1 with three leaves consisting of a comprehensive table of contents: "plays, &c. contained in each volume"; errata; and directions to the binder. Volume 1 preliminaries include the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton; Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe; Shakespeare's will, followed by a tipped-in leaf with a reproduction of Shakespeare's autograph; Granger's catalogue of portraits of Shakespeare; and Malone's Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written. |
Description: | 10 v. : ill., music, ports., (engravings, woodcuts) ; 22 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: | by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. |
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