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Early editors of Shakespeare -
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Criticism
Early Editors of Shakespeare

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English editions in a European context (translators of Shakespeare)

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John Hemminge and Henry Condell, (1623)
First Folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays
The First Folio and Early Quartos of William Shakespeare [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/] (Nov. 2002)

Nicholas Rowe (1709)


On Rowe's edition (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1110.html]
Sample page from Macbeth [http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg102.htm]
Links to Online Editions: [http://archive.org/search.php?query=Nicholas%20Rowe%20AND%20collection%3Aamericana]
Online Facsimile edition of Book 1 (comedies: Tempest, Two Gents, Merry Wives, Meas. f. M., Com. Err., Much Ado, LLL) [http://archive.org/stream/worksmrwilliams02rowegoog#page/n10/mode/2up]
Online Facsimile edition of Book 2 (comedies) [http://archive.org/stream/worksmrwilliams03rowegoog#page/n11/mode/2up]
Online Facsimile edition of Book 3 (histories: King John, Richard II, Hen. IV. 1 and 2, Hen V, Henry VI.1 and 2[ [http://archive.org/stream/worksmrwilliams02rowegoog#page/n10/mode/2up]
Online Facsimile edition of Book 4 (histories) [http://archive.org/stream/worksmrwilliams04rowegoog#page/n22/mode/2up]
Online Facsimile edition of Book 5 (tragedies: Rom. and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Othell) [http://archive.org/stream/worksmrwilliams05rowegoog#page/n4/mode/2up]
Title page and description of the edition (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) [http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/treasures/the-works-of-mr-william-shakespeare-edited-by-nicholas-rowe-1709.html]
Rowe, Nicholas: Some Acccount of the Life of Mr Shakespeare
[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16275]

Alexander Pope (1723-25)
Pope, Alexander. The life and death of King Lear IN The works of Shakespear : in six volumes / collated and corrected by the former editions, by Mr. Pope (1723-1725) [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI/PrintedBooksNew/]
Sample page from Macbeth [http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg103.cfm]
Conjectures and restorations of Pope (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1111.html]
Alexander Pope, The Dunciad [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pope/alexander/dunciad/complete.html#nrb1-28]

Lewis Theobald (1726)
Theobald, Lewis. Shakespeare restored (1726) Furness library [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/]
Examination and Correction of Hamlet (facsimile, full text) Furness library [http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=theobald&PagePosition=15]
Pope's Controversy with Theobald (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1112.html]
Alexander Pope, The Dunciad [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pope/alexander/dunciad/complete.html#nrb1-28]

Sir Thomas Hanmer (1744)
On Hanmer's edition (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1113.html]
Sample page from Macbeth [http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg104.cfm]

Some illustrations from Hanmer's edition by Hubert Gravelot [http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/exhibits/enchant/18th-19th_centuries.html]

William Warburton (1747)
On William Warburton [http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/warburton.htm]
Warburton/Pope edition, facsimile online [http://archive.org/details/worksofshakespea847shak]
Warburton used Pope's edition, see: Warburton's ignorance of the old text (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1114.html]

Samuel Johnson (1765)

On Johnson's edition (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1115.html]Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5429]
Sample page from As You Like It[http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg105.cfm]

Johnson, Samuel. Annotations on Hamlet (1765) [http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/hamlet.html]
Johnson, Samuel. Excerpt from Notes on Shakespeare [http://www.digilibraries.com/ebook/111516/Notes_to_Shakespeare_mdash_Volume_01_Comedies/] or here: [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/prefabr.html]
Johnson, Samuel. Johnson On Shakespeare (London : Oxford University Press, 1929), pp. 189-196. Transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-joh.htm]
Johnson, Samuel. Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane. [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/drury-lane-prologue-spoken-mr-garrick-opening-theatre-drury-lane-1747]
Samuel Johnson page [http://www.samueljohnson.com/]

Edward Capell (1767-68)
Capell, Edward.
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1116.html]

George Steevens (1773)
Steevens and Johnson
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1117.html]
Online facsimile edition of book 10 [http://archive.org/stream/playsvolume00johngoog#page/n10/mode/2up]
Some illustrations from Steeven's edition [http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/exhibits/enchant/18th-19th_centuries.html]
Bell 1774
Sample page [http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg105.htm]

Edmond Malone (1790; 1821)
on Malone's edition
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1118.html]
The Malone Society [http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/networks/malone-society-0/]

Samuel Weller Singer (1826)
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)

Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter) (1843)
Some illustrations from Cornwall's edition [http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/exhibits/enchant/18th-19th_centuries.html]
Biography of Bryan Waller Procter by S. C. Hall [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/6BIOL.htm]

Payne Collier (1844)
Collier, Notes and Emendations appeared in 1853
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)
"The Perkins Folio" - Forging a Collection [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/forgery/collier.htm]

Henry Norman Hudson (1851)
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)

Nikolaus Delius (1854)
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)

Alexander Dyce (1857)
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)

Grant White (1861)
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)

W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright: The Cambridge Shakespeare (1863-66)
on the Cambridge Shakespeare (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1120.html]

James Orchard Halliwell -Phillipps (1865 )
on nineteenth century editors:
(The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21)
[http://www.bartleby.com/215/1119.html] (Sept. 2002)

Charles Knight (1876)
"Imperial edition":
"Shakespeare in American Life" [http://www.shakespeareinamericanlife.org/identity/bard/treasure/fieldguide6.cfm]

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Early editors of Shakespeare -
bibliographies - collections of critical texts - criticism: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century - 19th century - early 20th century - recent criticism - Sh and Gender - linguistics and semantics - translators of Shakespeare - Electronic Shakespeare - libraries and institutions - discussion groups - authorship questions

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