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• DEEP (Database of Early English Playbooks) is a searchable database "...of Early English Playbooks allows scholars and students to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama..."
• The Canon. A chronological listing of the poems and plays. This is an area that will be developing to include materials on dating the works.
• The Classic Text: Traditions & Interpretations. An exhibit of certain Shakespearean texts with a discussion of the textual tradition from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• The Shakespeare Database Project.
• A Shakespeare Dictionary by Stephen Sherman.  "...an extremely selective and personal dictionary."
• Hartmut Ilsemann.  Statistics of plays by William Shakespeare. An heroic effort.  Frequency distributions can be found for each play using the site's menu system.
• Wonderful, brief introductions with synopses of each of the plays can be found at the Folger Shakespeare Library site.

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The standard HTML Complete Works sites are:

• in the USA, the MIT Shakespeare Homepage. The Complete Works from the Tech. HTML editions of the  works are laid out nicely in table format.
• in Australia, Matty Farrow's  the Complete Works site, with a good glossary and an excellent search engine.

[These, and almost all the Complete Works sites on the Internet are based on a very generic text released to the public domain in the early 90's called the "Complete Moby™ Shakespeare," based initially, it is believed, on The Stratford Town modern spelling edition of 1911 (see the bibliographic entry for the MIT site from SHINE).  Where the works are based on another text, it is noted below.]

Other notable HTML and text Complete Works sites:

• Open Source Shakespeare - concordance, keyword and advanced searching, statistics, the text of the plays, find characters, and a search of all the poetry as well.  Remarkable.  Based on the Globe edition.
• The Works in HTML editions from Wikisource, without version attribution.
• PlayShakespeare.com, "the ultimate free Shakespeare resource," primarily a presentation of the texts with some ancillary materials.  "All of the texts on this site come from the First Folio of 1623 (and Quartos where applicable) and the Globe Edition of 1866 and have been re-edited and updated."
• Renascence Editions of the Complete Works in PDF and HTML versions, University of Oregon.
• The Complete Works from the etext library at the University of Adelaide.
• The source for the Project Gutenberg texts of the Complete Works, and the Gutenberg listing of doubtful and spurious works.  Project Gutenberg also mounts a Complete Works interface at this location.
• A no-frills, well designed portal to standard html versions of the complete works (the thirty-seven canonical plays, not Two Noble Kinsmen), with a brief biography on the index page, and the ability to search within any of the individual works or across all, from  ReadPrint.com.
• Another HTML edition of the Complete Works mounted by the Pasadena Shakespeare Company.  Notes and other introductory materials are not provided.
• The Complete Literary Works of William Shakespeare from The Classic Literature Library.
• The Great Books Index. Well laid out index to basic versions of the plays.
• The University of Michigan has provided the Complete Works at the Internet Public Library.
• The Nine Volume 1863-1866 Cambridge Shakespeare is available from Project Gutenberg in downloadable text format.  See the facsimile edition below for more information.
• The 1866 Globe Edition at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.  The Globe edition seems to have been the source for the aforementioned "Complete Moby Shakespeare."  The texts at this site are presented in HTML, Microsoft Reader eBook, and Palm eBook formats.  Click here for another interface to the same editions.
• The First Folio and Early Quarto editions of the Works, again, from the University of Virginia etext archive in original spelling transcriptions.
• The 1914, W. J. Craig, Oxford Edition of the Complete Works (37 plays, 154 sonnets), with an excellent search tool which finds words to Act/Scene divisions.
• The University of Victoria's Internet Shakespeare Editions, including HTML and facsimile editions.  "The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet."  They are far from achieving this very lofty goal, but offer links to many very useful editions and resources.
• The University of Chicago Library The First Folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman, published by The Oxford Text Archive.  This is a fully searchable version of the second edition of the Norton Facsimile edition of 1996 (first edition, 1968).
• HTML original spelling transcription of the 1623 First Folio from The Classic Literature Library.
• Plain text original spelling transcription of the First Folio from Project Gutenberg.
• The Oxford Text Archive holdings for "Shakespeare."  Texts are downloadable and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes.

Electronic facsimiles of early printed editions (Quartos and Folios):
[The 1623 folio unless otherwise indicated.]

• Shakespeare in Quarto, from the British Library, ninety-three quartos of twenty-one plays in their possession (many purchased from Halliwell-Phillipps, Garrick and George III).  The display and ancillary material is very well done, with features for novices and more advanced students.  See my review of this web site.
• The Rare Book Room.  Facsimile editions of Folios and Quartos held by many of the world's libraries, including many by Shakespeare.  Many of the volumes in this collection (this site displays over 400 volumes) have been published for sale by Octavo.  The finest of the First Folios from the Folger Shakespeare library can be accessed here.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies. London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623. In Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, at the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania.
• Facsimile of the First Folio from the Perseus Project at Tufts University, displaying the Brandeis University First Folio.
• The facsimiles from the Internet Shakespeare Editions at the University of Victoria, including all four folios and a number of quartos, with links into the individual plays within the folios.  Facsimiles of the first folios on display at this site are in the possession of Brandeis University and the University of New South Wales.  The second (1632), third (1663-1664), and fourth (1685) folios displayed at this site are from those in the possession of the University of New South Wales.  Unique to the ISE site is a 1593 1st quarto of Venus and Adonis from U. Victoria's MacPherson Library, and a facsimile edition of John Velz's 1968 Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition.
• Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O.  The works of William Shakespeare, in reduced facsimile from the famous first folio edition of 1623, Funk and Wagnalls, 1887, from Google Book Search.  A downloadable, PDF version is available.  The read onscreen feature did not work in IE7 for this scanned book.  Other "Halliwelliana" related primarily to the works can be found at Presscom.   The Halliwell-Phillipps reduced facsimile of the First Folio is also available from the Internet Archive.
• Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. with an Introduction and Census of Copies by Sidney Lee (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1902), from the Liberty Fund.  This is a reproduction of Sidney Lee's 1902 collotype facsimile edition.
• Mostly 17th century facsimile quarto editions of various plays by Shakespeare (though some from the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries), part of the Horace Howard Furness Collection at the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania.
• Meisei University Shakespeare Folios Electronic Library, presents materials on the First and Second Folios, and includes a First Folio and Second Folio image search, though the presentation and navigation present problems.  Notable are the HTML editions reflecting marginalia.

For links to quarto facsimile editions of individual plays, see individual plays by title below.

Printed versions of facsimile editions

Printed versions of First Folio facsimiles were produced in 1866, by Howard Staunton, unavailable on the Internet as far as I am aware; in 1876 by the irrepressible J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, linked above; in 1902 by Sir Sidney Lee, also linked above; in 1954 by Helge Kökeritz and Charles Tyler Prouty (the Yale facsimile, which is now somewhat rare); and in 1968 by Charlton Hinman, the first Norton Facsimile.  The Norton Facsimile is now in its second edition (1996), edited by Peter Blayney.

Recommended print version: The Norton Facsimile "Charlton Hinman's facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio was a colossal achievement when it was first published in 1968, and its reputation is further enhanced by this beautiful second edition. Looking for a way to provide scholars with a reliable version of Shakespeare's text, Hinman invented a device that sped up the collation process, allowing him to compare 82 of the surviving copies of the Folio and bring to light features of Shakespeare's work that have been--and continue to be--edited out of most modern editions." --from the Amazon.com product description. The scholarship of Hinman has remained unsurpassed.  The second edition of this, his great work, was issued in 1996, edited by Peter Blayney, who provides an introductory essay.

A facsimile version of the best first folio held by the Folger Shakespeare Library is available on CD-ROM in PDF format from Octavo.

• 1709 - The Nicholas Rowe 1709 Edition of the Works of Shakespeare

THE WORKS OF Mr. William Shakespear IN SIX VOLUMES. ADORN'D with CUTS Revis'd and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. By N. Rowe, Esq. LONDON: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane. MDCCIX.

Rowe was the first formal editor of Shakespeare, and his first formal biographer.  His Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear, prefaced to his 1709 edition of the Works (based on the Fourth Folio of 1685) became the standard 18th Century biography, and in fact became the foundation document for all subsequent biographies. Though it contains inaccuracies, it also preserves information, as Sidney Lee says, which, were it not for Rowe, would surely have been lost. Rowe acknowledges his debt for "...the most considerable part of the passages relating to this life..." to the actor Thomas Betterton (1634-1710), who made "a journey to Warwickshire on purpose to gather up what remains he could, of a name for which he had so great a veneration."   Rowe includes the apocryphal plays first added to the 1664 Third Folio in his volume VI.  His edition was also the first illustrated edition of the plays.

• Volume the First
  • Dedication to the Duke of Somerset;
  • Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr.William Shakespear
  • The Tempest;
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona;
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor;
  • Measure for Measure;
  • The Comedy of Errors;
  • Much Ado About Nothing;
  • Love's Labour's Lost.
• Volume the Second
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream;
  • The Merchant of Venice;
  • As You Like It;
  • The Taming of the Shrew;
  • All's Well That Ends Well;
  • Twelfth-Night, Or What You Will;
  • The Winter's Tale.
• Volume the Third
  • The Life and Death of King John;
  • The Life and Death of King Richard II;
  • The First Part of Henry IV with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnam'd Hot-Spur;
  • The Second Part of Henry IV Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V;
  • The Life of King Henry V;
  • The First Part of King Henry VI;
  • The Second Part of King Henry VI with the Death of Good Duke Humphry.
• Volume the Fourth
  • The Third Part of King Henry VI with the Death of the Duke of York;
  • The Life and Death of Richard III : with the Landing of the Earl of Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Field;
  • The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII;
  • Troilus and Cressida;
  • Coriolanus;
  • Titus Andronicus.
• Volume the Fifth
  • Romeo and Juliet;
  • Timon of Athens;
  • Julius Cæsar;
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth;
  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark;
  • King Lear;
  • Othello the Moor of Venice.
• Volume the Sixth [The final seven plays in this volume were first added to the "Shakespeare canon" in the second impression of the Third Folio (1664), were reprinted in the Fourth Folio, (upon which Rowe based his text) but were excluded by later 18th century editors beginning with Pope (though they do appear in Pope's second edition of 1728).  Only Pericles persisted in the canon, finally accepted there under the influence of Malone (1790)].
  • Antony and Cleopatra;
  • Cymbeline;
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre;
  • The London Prodigal;
  • The Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell;
  • The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham;
  • The Puritan : or, the Widow of Watling-Street;
  • A Yorkshire Tragedy;
  • The Tragedy of Locrine the Eldest Son of King Brutus.

For more on Rowe, see his entry in "Shakespeare's Editors," where you can see all the major illustrations from this edition.

• 1725 - Alexander Pope edited a collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published by Tonsons (as were Rowe's edition before his and Theobald's thereafter), in 6 quarto volumes, in the year 1725.  Copies of the volumes are rare, and the only example I can find on the Internet is King Lear from volume III:  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The life and death of King Lear. From The works of Shakespear : in six volumes / collated and corrected by the former editions, by Mr. Pope. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, in the Strand, 1723-1725. In Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library.  For more on Pope's edition see his page in the Shakespeare's Editor's series.
   
• 1733 - In 1726 Pope was severely criticized by Lewis Theobald in his book Shakespeare restored, or, A specimen of the many errors, as well committed, as unamended, by Mr. Pope : in his late edition of this poet. Designed not only to correct the said edition, but to restore the true reading of Shakespeare in all the editions ever yet published. The book concentrates on the deficiencies exhibited by Pope in his edition of Hamlet, but in a long appendix goes on to comment, though not as exhaustively, on most of the other plays also.  I have been able to locate two facsimile editions on the Internet:  One from Google Book Search, and one from SCETI at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  Theobald followed Shakespeare restored with his own edition of the plays (heavily indebted to an epistolary collaboration with Warburton), published in 1733.  Theobald's was a revolutionary edition.  His genius was for collation, comparison, the analysis of parallel passages, the application of historical precedent, an understanding of the linguistic variation and development in English, and for making inspired guesses.  Many of Theobald's emendations persist to this day.  I have not been able to locate all the volumes in the 1733 edition of Theobald.  Here is a link to Volume I of the 1733 edition (the entire edition of which, in spite of his criticisms, was based on Pope's 1728 second edition--itself containing most of the corrections pointed out by Theobald in Shakespeare restored). You will find several other volumes in the 1733 edition on my Theobald page, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Hardy Cook.  I have found a complete set of 8 volumes of the 1767 reissue (known as Theobald 6 in Murphy (Shakespeare in Print) which I link below. Other editions of Theobald's Shakespeare were published in1740 (2nd edition) 1752 (8 vols., 12mo.), 1757 (8 vols., 8vo.), 1762 (8 vols., 12mo.), 1767 (8 vols., 12mo.), 1772 (12 vols., 12mo.), 1773 (8 vols., 12mo.), and 1777 (?) (12 vols., 12mo.)).
   
  • Volume I
    • Prefatory material including
      • Milton's Epitaph; and poems by Davenant, and Ben Jonson;
      • Theobald's long Preface;
      • Shakespeare's will;
      • The Tempest;
      • A Midsummer-Night's Dream;
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona;
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor;
      • Measure for Measure.
  • Volume II
    • Much Ado about Nothing;
    • The Merchant of Venice;
    • Love's Labour's Lost;
    • As You Like It;
    • The Taming of the Shrew.
  • Volume III
    • All's Well That Ends Well;
    • Twelfth Night: or, What You Will;
    • The Comedy of Errors;
    • The Winter's Tale;
    • The Life and Death of King John.
  • Volume IV
    • The Life and Death of Richard the Second;
    • The First Part of Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry, Sirnam'd Hot-Spur;
    • The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of Henry V.;
    • The Life of King Henry V.;
    • The First Part of King Henry VI.
  • Volume V
    • The Second Part of King Henry VI.;
    • The Third Part of King Henry VI. with the Death of the Duke of York.;
    • The Life and Death of Richard III;
    • The Life of King Henry VIII.
  • Volume VI
    • The Life and Death of King Lear;
    • Timon of Athens;
    • Titus Andronicus;
    • The Tragedy of Macbeth;
    • C. Marcius Coriolanus.
  • Volume VII
    • Julius Cæsar;
    • Antony and Cleopatra;
    • Cymbeline. A Tragedy.;
    • Troilus and Cressida.
  • Volume VIII
    • Romeo and Juliet;
    • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark;
    • Othello, The Moor of Venice.

  For more on Theobald, see his entry in the Shakespeare's Editor's section.
   

• 1747 - Warburton's Edition

• 1765 - Dr. Samuel Johnson produced his first great edition of Shakespeare in 1765:  The plays of William Shakespeare in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Sam Johnson.  All eight volumes can be found at Google Book Search in full view and PDF formats:
   
  • Volume the First
    •  Preface; 
    • Heminge and Condell's Dedication;
    • The Preface of the Players;
    • Mr. Pope's Preface;
    • Mr. Theobald's Preface;
    • Sir T. Hanmer's Preface;
    • Dr. Warburton's Preface;
    • Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear. Written by Mr. Rowe;
    • On Shakespeare's Coat of Arms;
    • Shakspeare's Will;
    • Rowe's Additional Anecdote to Pope on Young Shakespeare Holding Horses; 
    • To The Memory of My Beloved the Author;
    • The Tempest;
    • A Midsummer-Night's Dream;
    • The Two Gentlemen of Verona;
    • Measure for Measure;
    • The Merchant of Venice;
  • Volume the Second
    • As You Like It;
    • Love's Labour's Lost;
    • The Winter's Tale;
    • Twelfth-Night: or What You Will;
    • The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  • Volume the Third
    • The Taming of the Shrew;
    • The Comedy of Errors;
    • Much Ado About Nothing;
    • All's Well That Ends Well;
    • The Life and Death of King John.
  • Volume the Fourth
    • The Life and Death of Richard the Second;
    • The First Part of King Henry the Fourth;
    • The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth;
    • The Life of King Henry the Fifth;
    • The First Part of King Henry the Sixth.
  • Volume the Fifth
    • The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth;
    • The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth;
    • The Life and Death of Richard the Third;
    • The Life of King Henry the Eighth.
  • Volume the Sixth
    • The Life and Death of King Lear;
    • Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus;
    • The Tragedy of Macbeth;
    • Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
  • Volume the Seventh
    • Julius Caesar;
    • Antony and Cleopatra;
    • Cymbeline;
    • Troilus and Cressida.
  • Volume the Eighth
    • Romeo and Juliet;
    • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark;
    • Othello, the Moor of Venice;
    • Appendix.
       
• 1766 - In 1766 George Steevens published Twenty of the plays of Shakespeare, being the whole number printed in quarto during his life-time, or before the restoration, collated where there were different copies, and published from the originals, by George Steevens, Esq., in four volumes.  Very fortunately Google Book Search has digitized these works and they can be accessed in facsimile using the links below.  Garrick provided most of the texts for this collection.  Steevens was the first to recognize the importance of printed preservation of these early texts.  In addition to the twenty plays, he also provided the text of the 1609 edition of the Sonnets, correcting the serious corruption inflicted by Charles Gildon in his supplement to Rowe's edition of 1709 (the Rowe "volume VII") where Gildon chose the corrupt 1640 Benson copy of the Sonnets to reproduce rather than the 1609 first edition. Gildon's choice became the 18th century printed standard until Steevens.  Oddly enough--though not so odd when one gets to know the perverse quirks of Steevens' character--he later dropped interest in the Sonnets when his great enemy Malone's interest in them grew, commenting that "...the strongest act of Parliament that could be framed, would fail to compel readers into their service."  History has disagreed.
   
  • Volume I
    • Advertisement to the Reader; A List of the Old Editions of Shakespeare's Plays;
    • A Midsommer Nights Dream (1600);
    • A MOST Pleasant and Excellent Conceited COMEDY, oF Sir JOHN FALSTAFFE, AND THE Merry Wives of Windsor. WITH THE Swaggering Vaine of Ancient PISOLL, and Corporall NYM... (1619);
    • THE Merry Wives of Windsor, With the HUMOURS of Sir JOHN FALSTAFFE, AS ALSO, The Swaggering Vaine of Ancient PISTOLL, and Corporall NYM... (1630);
    • Title page of the 1602 quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor (Q1);
    • Much adoe about Nothing (1600);
    • The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice, Extreme Cruelty of SHYLOCKE the IEW towards the saide MERCHANT, in cutting a just Pound of his Flesh. And the obtaining of PORTIA, by the Choyse of Three Caskets (1600);
    • Loves Labours Lost, a Wittie and Pleasant Comedie... (1631).
  • Volume II
    • A Wittie and Pleasant Comedie Called The Taming of the Shrew... (1631);
    • M. WILLIAM SHAKE-SPEARE, His True Chronicle HISTORY OF THE LIFE and DEATH of King Lear, and his Three Daughters. WI TH THE Unfortunate Life of EDGAR, Sonne and Heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his fallen and assumed Humour of Tom of Bedlam... (1608);
    • The Troublesome Raigne of King John (1611);
    • The Tragedie of King Richard the Second (1615);
    • The History of Henry the Fourth, with the Battell at Shrewseburie, betweene the King, and Lord Henrie Percy sur-named Henrie Hotspur of the North. With the Humorous Conceites of Sir JOHN FALSTAFFE (1613);
    • The Second PART of HENRIE the Fourth, Continuing to his Death, And Coronation of Henrie the Fift. With the Humours of Sir John Falstaffe and swaggering Pistoll... (1600).
  • Volume III
    • THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF HENRY the Fife With his BATTELL fought at AGIN COURT in FRANCE. Together with ANCIENT PISTOLL... (1608);
    • THE WHOLE CONTENTION Berweene the Two famous Houses, LANCASTER and YORKE. With the tragicall Ends of the Good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke and King Henrie the sixt. - Divided into Two Parts: And newly corrected and enlarged. (ND);
    • THE TRAGEDIE OF King RICHARD the Third. CONTAINING His treacherous Plots against his Brother Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent Nephewes: his tyrannicall Usurpation: with the whole Course of his detested Life, and most deserved Death... (1612);
    • The Most Lamentable Tragedie of Titus Andronicus (1611);
    • THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF TROYLUS and CRESSEID. Excellently expreffing The Beginning of their LOVES, WITH THE Conceited Wooing of PANDARUS Prince of Licia... (1609).
  • Volume IV
    • An Excellent Conceited TRAGEDIE, oF ROMEO and IULIET... (1597);
    • The most Excellent and Lamentable TRAGEDIE, OF ROMEO and JULIET... (1609);
    • THE TRAGICALL HISTORIE OF HAMLET PRINCE of DENMARKE (1611);
    • THE TRAGOEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOORE of VENICE... (1622);
    • SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (1609);
    • A LOVERS COMPLAINT (included after Sonnet 154 in the 1609 edition);
    • THE TRUE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS, GONORILL, RAGAN, and CORDELLA... (1605).

• 1767-1768: The Capell edition

Mr William Shakespeare his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by his Players, his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo ; with an Introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, Notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire. London, Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand.

The links given below are from the versions scanned for the Internet Archive.  Unfortunately it is not possible to link to individual sections within each work.  Even less fortunately, the set at the Internet Archive is not complete, lacking volume II.  Please contact me if you find a link to this volume.

• Volume I - Poems upon the author. Table of his editions. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. [Vol. I in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume II - Measure for measure. The comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. [Vol. II in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume III - A midsummer night's dream. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. The taming of the shrew. [Vol. III in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume IV - All's well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, What you will. The winter's tale. Macbeth. [Vol. IV in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume V - King John. Richard II. Henry IV. [Vol. V in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume VI - Henry V. Henry VI. [Vol. VI in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume VII - Richard III. Henry VIII. Coriolanus. [Vol. VII in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume VIII - Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. [Vol. VIII in searchable Snippet view from GBS]
• Volume IX - Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.
• Volume X - Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. [Vol. X in searchable Snippet view from GBS]

For more on Capell, see his entry in the Shakespeare's Editors section.

• 1773 - Johnson-Steevens 1, or the of the Works in the Johnson-Steevens-Reed series

In the same year Steevens' Twenty of the plays... appeared (1766) he published a prospectus for a new edition of Shakespeare.  Johnson's edition was only a few months old at the time (it was published October, 1765).  Steevens' had gained Johnson's favor and Johnson was impressed with Twenty of the plays....  The resulting edition of the works did not appear until 1773, and even though Johnson had very little to do with it, it is known as Johnson-Steevens 1.  I have been able to locate links to all ten volumes from various libraries scanned through Google Book Search, available in full view and PDF.  Here are the links.  The important new materials the many notes supplied by Steevens, the list of old editions of Shakespeare's plays, and the notes contained in the Appendix.

• Volume the First
  • Preface (by Dr. Johnson)
  • Advertisement to the Reader (by Steevens)
  • Ancient Translations from Classic Authors
  • Players' Dedication to the First Folio ("To the Most Noble and Incomparable...")
  • The Preface of the Players ("To the Great Variety of Readers")
  • Mr. Pope's Preface
  • Mr. Theobald's Preface
  • Sir T. Hanmer's Preface
  • Dr. Warburton's Preface
  • Advertisement to the Reader from Steeven's Twenty of the Plays...
  • Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare Written by Mr. Rowe
  • Instrument of the Garter King at Arms re: the Shakespeare Coat of Arms
  • Shakespeare's Will
  • Pope's Anecdote from Rowe via Johnson about Shakespeare holding horses
  • Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of the Shakespeare Family
  • Commendatory Poems
  • A List of the Old Editions of Shakespeare's Plays
  • The Tempest
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Volume the Second
  • Measure for Measure
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Love's Labour's Lost
• Volume the Third
  • A Midsummer-Nights Dream
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • As You Like It
  • The Taming of the Shrew
• Volume the Fourth
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • Twelfth-Night: Or, What You Will
  • The Winter's Tale
  • Macbeth
• Volume the Fifth
  • The Life and Death of King John
  • The Life and Death of Richard II
  • The First Part of Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry, Sirnamed Hotspur
  • The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death: and the Coronation of Henry V
• Volume the Sixth
  • The Life of Henry V
  • The First Part of Henry VI
  • The Second Part of Henry VI
  • The Third Part of Henry VI. With the Death of the Duke of York
• Volume the Seventh
  • The Life and Death of Richard III
  • The Life of Henry VIII
  • C. Marcius Coriolanus
• Volume the Eighth
  • Julius Caesar
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Timon of Athens
  • Titus Andronicus
• Volume the Ninth
  • Troilus and Cressida
  • Cymbeline
  • The Life and Death of King Lear
• Volume the Tenth
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • Othello, The Moor of Venice
  • Appendix (containing notes unavailable at time of printing).

For more on Steevens and links to his other editions, see his entry in Shakespeare's Editors.

• 1778 - Johnson Steevens 2, 1778

  The plays of William Shakespeare in ten volumes, with corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.  The Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, London, C. Bathurst, etc., 1778.

  I am placing links here to the contents of Volume I of this edition, and the two volumes of Malone's Supplement. For the others, see  Steevens' entry in Shakespeare's Editors.

   

  • Volume the First
    • Preface (by Dr. Johnson);
    • Advertisement to the Reader (by Steevens - with the notable encomium to Jacob Tonson, the publisher);
    • Ancient Translations from Classic Authors;
    • Appendix To Mr. Colman's Translation of Terence, Octavo Edition;
    • The Dedication of the Players;
    • The Preface of the Players;
    • Mr. Pope's Preface;
    • Mr. Theobald's Preface;
    • Sir T. Hanmer's Preface;
    • Dr. Warburton's Preface;
    • Advertisement to the Reader [Prefixed to Mr. Steevens's Edition of Twenty of the Old Quarto Copies of Shakespeare...];
    • Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare. Written by Mr. Rowe;
    • John Shakespeare's Coat of Arms;
    • The License for acting, Granted by James the First to the Company at the Globe;
    •  Shakespeare's Will;
    • Pope's anecdote from Rowe about Shakespeare holding horses, added initially by Johnson;
    • Additional notes historical and biographical by Steevens and others;
    • Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of the Shakespeare Family;
    • Extracts from the Rev. Mr. Granger's Biographical History of England;
    • Ancient and Modern Commendatory Verses on Shakespeare;
    • Names of the Original Actors in the Plays;
    • A List of Such Ancient Editions of Shakespeare's Plays;
    • Modern Editions (with amounts paid to editors);
    • Old Editions of Shakespeare's Poems;
    • List of Plays Alter'd from Shakespeare;
    • List of Detached Pieces of Criticism on Shakespeare, His Editors, &c.;
    • Extracts of Entries on the Books of the Stationers' Company;
    • An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written (by Edmond Malone);
    • Contents;
    • Errata;
    • The Tempest;
    • Two Gentlemen of Verona;
    • The Merry Wives of Windsor.

• Malone's Supplements to Steevens' edition of 1778

Edmond Malone (1741 - 1812), whose An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written appeared in Steevens' 1778 edition of The plays published a two-volume Supplement to that edition in 1780 which contains valuable notes and observations from many sources, but particularly from Malone himself who was certainly the greatest Elizabethan scholar of the 18th Century.  I give links to Volumes I and II below to save space, and then a detailed set of links to the subsections within each volume on my Steevens page and Malone page.  Volume I contains general supplemental comments, comments to each of the plays in particular, and Shakespeare's Poetry with annotations.  Volume II contains the seven supplemental plays added to the second impression of the Third Folio (1664) and appendices to each of the volumes.

• Volume the First
• Volume the Second

• 1790 - Malone's First Edition

  This is Malone's first great edition of the Works, including the poetry.  Especially useful among the Malone materials in this edition are his pioneering An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays of Shakspeare were Written, the Rise and Progress of the English Stage, The Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI, and Malone's edition of Romeus and Juliet, the source for Romeo and Juliet.  Malone is also important for his emphasis on the poetry, in contrast to his predecessors and specifically contra Steevens.  Though the title page states that Malone's edition appears in 10 volumes, it actually appeared in 11, volume I having two parts.  According to Simon Jarvis (Scholars and Gentlemen, p. 187) Malone (ironically) used the Isaac Redd edition of 1785 (Johnson-Steevens-Reed 3) as his base text, and then carefully collated the early editions against this base text.  In 1792 Malone proposed a new "splendid" edition of Shakespeare in "fifteen volumes, royal octavo" but the project was never realized.  Malone's second edition, if it can be called that, was compiled by his literary executor, James Boswell the younger in 1821 (linked below), nine years after Malone's death.

  The plays and poems : of William Shakspeare, in ten volumes; collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added, an essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation ... an historical account ... by Edmond Malone, J. Rivington and Sons, ..., 1790.

  • Volume I, Part I (Thanks to Dr. M. L. Stapleton for locating this long missing volume in GBS)
    • Preface
    • Dr. Johnson's Preface
    • Mr. Steevens's Advertisement to the Reader
    • Ancient Translations from Classick Authors
    • Mr. Pope's Preface
    • The Dedication of the Players
    • The Preface of the Players
    • Some Account of the Life, &c. of William Shakspeare Written by Mr. Rowe
    • Pope's Amendment to Rowe
    • Additional Anecdotes of Shakspeare
    • Stratford Register
    • Shakspeare's Coat of Arms
    • Shakspeare's Will
    • Mortgage Made by Shakspeare, A.D. 1612-13
    • Ancient and Modern Commendatory Verses on Shakspeare
    • A List of the Most Authentick Ancient Editions of Shakspeare's Plays
    • A List of the Most Authentick Ancient Editions of Shakspeare's Poems
    • Dramatick Pieces on Which Plays Were Formed by Shakspeare
    • List of Plays Altered From Shakspeare
    • List of Detached Pieces of Criticism on Shakspeare, His Editors, &c.
    • Extracts of Entries on the Books of the Stationers' Company
    • An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays of Shakspeare Were Written
    • Shakspeare, Ford, and Jonson
  • Volume I, Part II.
    • An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage and of The Economy and Usages of Our Ancient Theatres
    • Emendations and Additions
    • Contents
    • The Tempest
    • Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Volume II
    • Measure for Measure
    • The Comedy of Errors
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Love's Labour's Lost
    • A Midsummer-Night's Dream
  • Volume III
    • The Merchant of Venice
    • As You Like It
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • All's Well That Ends Well
    • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • Volume IV
    • Twelfth-Night: or, What You Will
    • Winter's Tale
    • Macbeth
    • King John
  • Volume V
    • King Richard II
    • King Henry IV, Part I
    • King Henry IV, Part II
    • King Henry V
  • Volume VI
    • King Henry VI, Part I
    • King Henry VI, Part II
    • King Henry VI, Part III
    • A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI
    • King Richard III
  • Volume VII
    • King Henry VIII
    • Coriolanus
    • Julius Caesar
    • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Volume VIII
    • Timon of Athens
    • Troilus and Cressida
    • Cymbeline
    • King Lear
  • Volume IX
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Hamlet
    • Othello
  • Volume X
    • Venus and Adonis
    • Rape of Lucrece
    • Sonnets
    • The Passionate Pilgrim
    • A Lover's Complaint
    • Titus Andronicus A Tragedy Erroneously Ascribed to Shakspeare
    • The Tragicall Hystory of Romeus and Juliet
    • Appendix
    • Glossarial Index
       
• 1793 - "Steevens own edition" of 1793, also known as Johnson-Steevens 4 and Johnson-Steevens-Reed 4.

  The plays of William Shakspeare. In fifteen volumes. With