These pages are a work in progress. I hope they will be useful, and in fact have some limited use in providing links to researches even now, but they are far from finished. Those that are linked from this page have sections that are incomplete. Please bear with me. I will flesh out these pages as time permits.
- The Story of Shakespeare's Text, A Narrative Introduction
- The Quartos (1594 - 1684)
- Heminge & Condell and the folios (1623 - 1685)
- Seventeenth Century Adaptations
- Nicholas Rowe (1709, 1714)
- Alexander Pope (1723-25)
- Lewis Theobald (1733, 1740, ...)
- Sir Thomas Hanmer (1743 - 1744)
- William Warburton (1747)
- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1765)
- Edward Capell (1767 - 1768)
- George Steevens (1766, 1773, 1778, 1785, 1793, 1803, 1813)
- Isaac Reed (1785, 1803 - "the first variorum", 1813 - "the second variorum")
- Edmond Malone (1778, 1790, 1821)
- Ambrose Eccles (1793, 1805)
- Alexander Chalmers (1805, 1811, 1838)
- Thomas Bowdler and the Family Shakespeare (1818...)
- James Boswell the younger (The Third Variorum Edition - 1821)
- Samuel Weller Singer (1826)
- A. J. Valpy (1832-34...)
- Charles Knight and the Pictorial Editions (1838...)
- John Payne Collier (1842-1844, and the Collier Forgeries)
- Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter with almost 1000 illustrations by Kenny Meadows) (1843)
- Nikolaus Delius (1854)
- Alexander Dyce (1857)
- Howard Staunton (1858-1860)
- Richard Grant White (1861)
- The Cambridge Shakespeare (Clark & Wright - 1863-1866)
- The Globe Edition (1864)
- J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (1865)
- The New Variorum Editions - H. Howard Furness (1871 - )
- The Leopold Shakespeare of F. J. Furnivall (1877)
- The Harvard Shakespeare of Henry Norman Hudson (1881)
- The Temple Shakespeare of Israel Gollancz (1894)
- The "Henry Irving" Shakespeare of F. A. Marshall (1895)
- The Stratford Town Shakespeare of A. H. Bullen (1904-1907)
- The Friendly Shakespeare of William J. Rolfe (1870-1883; 1903-1907)
- The Arden First Series (1899 - )
- Sir Sidney Lee (1910)
- E. K. Chambers
- John Dover Wilson
- The Arden Second Series
- The Arden Third Series
- Modern Collected Editions
