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EditionsPlays marked
with an asterisk
(*) appeared in
print
for the first
time
in the First
Folio of 1623.
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 All's Well That Ends Well*
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from the
folios.
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All's Well, that Ends Well, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from The Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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All's Well, that Ends Well, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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All's Well, that Ends Well, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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All's Well, that Ends Well, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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All's Well, that Ends Well, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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All's Well, that Ends Well, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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All's well that ends well, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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All's well that ends well, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Antony and Cleopatra*
(1606-1608)
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Antony and Cleopatra (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from the
folios.
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The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
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The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
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The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
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The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
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The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Anthony, and Cleopatra, in the Second
Folio of 1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by theState Library of New
South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra, in the Third Folio
of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra, in the Fourth
Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
As You Like It*
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from the
folios.
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As
you Like it, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from The Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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As you Like it, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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As you Like it, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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As you Like it, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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As you Like it, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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As you like it, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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As you like it, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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As you like it, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimiles of 19th Century editions:
The Comedy of Errors*
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from the
folios.
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The
Comedie of Errors, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from The Rare Book Room (Octavo)
from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The Comedie of Errors, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text &
Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The Comedie of Errors, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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The Comedie of Errors, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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The Comedie of Errors, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Comedie of Errors, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Comedie of Errors, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Comedy of Errors, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Coriolanus*
(1608)
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Coriolanus (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from the
folios.
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from The Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimile editions of 17th century revisions of the
play:
Cymbeline*
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
Cymbeline (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from the
folios.
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from The Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Tragedy of Cymbeline, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Cymbeline, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Tragedy of Cymbeline, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Other Versions
Hamlet
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Hamlet (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic Text
Center, University of Virginia Library.
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The Enfolded
Hamlet. Jump to the play or its various enfolded versions from the
introduction.
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HamletWorks.org "offers deep levels of information on Hamlet
and related works for scholars, students, theater practitioners, and
fans."
- The 1603 'bad quarto' edition of Hamlet
in HTML transcription
from the University of Virginia.
- The 1604
quarto edition, in HTML transcription also from UV.
- The 1623
First Folio text of Hamlet in transcription
from UV.
- Athena Ophelia page.
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Hamletworks.org "offers deep levels of information on
Hamlet and related works for scholars, students, theater
practitioners, and fans."b
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Hyperhamlet.
A truly amazing site from the University of Basel. ""Hyperhamlet"
is a new project at the University of Basel, a database that collects
and orders references to Hamlet in all areas of culture. Who
quoted Hamlet? Which passages were most popular when? Etc. It is based
on the conviction that we need a cultural history of Shakespeare's
plays, and that in studying the status and the meaning of a play we
should not entirely rely on criticism and performance history." It
took literally just seconds to determine that "Hoist with his own
petard" is quoted in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth, wit.h the
appropriate references. If you do not think that is breathtaking,
you probably should not be using this web site, or perhaps any web site.
Electronic facsimile editions of early (17th
century) quartos and
folios.
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The
1603 1st quarto of Hamlet from the British Library,
another version of the same from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo).
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A mirror of the
1603
1st quarto from the
Internet Shakespeare Editions, using the ISE navigation tools,
from the volume held by the British Library.
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The
1604 2nd quarto of Hamlet from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
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The
1605 2nd variant quarto of Hamlet from the British
Library, and
the
same from the Rare Book Room (Octavo), and
the same from Internet Shakespeare Editions..
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The
1611 3rd quarto of Hamlet, originally in the
possession of Garrick and
another of the same of unknown provenance, both from the
British Library. Here is another version of the
3rd
quarto from the Rare Book Room (Octavo), and
yet
another, and
another.
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The
1611
3rd quarto of Hamlet from the Rare Book Room from a
volume held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
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The
1611
3rd quarto of Hamlet from the Rare Book Room from a
volume held by the University of Edinburgh Library.
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The
1611 3rd quarto of The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince
of Denmarke, from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The
1622 4th quarto of Hamlet, originally in the
possession of Garrick, and
another of the same originally in the possession of George
III, both from the British Library, and yet
another version of the same from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo).
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The
1637 5th quarto of Hamlet from the British Library,
and
another version of the same from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo).
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The
1637
5th quarto of Hamlet from the Rare Book Room from a
copy held by the University of Edinburgh Library.
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The
1637
5th quarto of Hamlet from the Rare Book room from a
copy held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford, and
another from the same source held by the same library.
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The
1637
5th quarto of Hamlet from the Rare Book Room from a
copy held by the National Library of Scotland.
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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
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The Tragedie of Hamlet,
Prince of Denmarke in the First Folio of 1623
from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, SCETI,
University of Pennsylvania.
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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,
in the Third Folio of 1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Electronic facsimile editions of 17th Century revisions of the
play:
Electronic facsimiles of 18th Century editions of the play.
Electronic facsimiles of 19th Century revisions of the play:
- Poole, John, 1786?-1872.
Hamlet travestie : in three acts, 1810, (Poole's Hamlet
Travestie), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text &
Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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Hamlet, 1860 (Forrest's Hamlet Promptbook), from a
volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library
from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI),
University of Pennsylvania.
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Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, 1879, (Edwin Booth's
Promptbook of Hamlet), from a volume held by the Horace Howard
Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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Hamlet : a tragedy in five acts, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for
the stage by Henry Irving, 1879, (Irving's Hamlet), from a
volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library
from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI),
University of Pennsylvania.
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Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for the stage by Forbes
Robertson..., 1897, (Forbes Robertson's Hamlet), from
a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare)
Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI),
University of Pennsylvania.
Performances
- The Derry Film Initiative video production of
Hamlet, from Google Video (1 hr. 33 min.). "The
Derry Film Initiative's HAMLET is a vigorous, dynamic and modern
reinvention of one of literature's greatest works. Drawing upon the
Northern Ireland conflict and using the conventions of the
documentary film to give a first-hand, visceral experience, HAMLET
is not only a psychological thriller about one man's quest for
revenge, but also a meditation on politics, war and the very nature
of life and death."
Henry
IV, Part 1
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Henry IV, Part One (1623 First Folio Edition) Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic Facsimile Editions of early quartos and
folios.
 Henry
IV, Part 1 was entered in the Stationers' Register
February 25, 1598 (NS):
Andrew Wise.] A booke
entitled the Historye of Henry the Fourth, with his
Battaile at Shrewsburye against Henry Hottspurre of the
Northe with the conceipted Mirth of Sir John Falstalffe
The first quarto was not
actually the first quarto. There survives an 8-page
fragment (quire C) of the play designated Q0, without date,
upon which Q1 is based. Q1 is dated 1598 and appeared
with the following title:
The history of Henrie the
Fourth; with the battell at Shrewsburie, betweene the
King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of
the north. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn
Falstalffe [sic].
At London: printed by P. S. [Peter Short] for Andrew
Wise, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the
Angell, 1598.
Q1 was reprinted in 1599 and
designated "Newly corrected
by W. Shake-speare.
", but there are only
very small differences between Q1 and Q2. Other
quartos appeared in 1604, 1608, 1613, and 1622, testifying
to the popularity of the play. The text of the First
Folio (F1) is set from Q5 (1613) with the oaths removed.
The play was probably
written at the end of 1596 or very early 1597. It is
most likely that Henry IV, Part 1 was composed without
reference to a part 2, and that part 2 was written to build
on the success of part 1. |
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1598 1st quarto of Henry IV, Pt. 1, from the British
Library, and
another copy of the same from the Internet Shakespeare
editions.
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The
1599 2nd quarto of The History of Henrie the fourth, with the
battle at Shrewsburie... from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a
volume held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
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1599 2nd quarto of
Henry IV, Pt. 1, from the British
Library originally possessed by Garrick,
and another originally possessed by George III.
- Another copy of the
1599
quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland.
- The
1604 3rd quarto of Henry IV, Part 1, from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
-
1608 4th quarto of
Henry IV, Pt. 1, from the British
Library.
- Another copy of the
1608
quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book Room (Octavo)
from a volume held by the National Library
of Scotland.
- The
1608
4th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford.
- Two examples of the 1613 5th quarto of Henry IV,
Pt. 1, from the British Library, both originally possessed by
Halliwell-Phillipps:
1
2.
Other copies of these quartos from the Rare Book Room (Octavo):
1
2.
- The
1613 5th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1622 6th quarto of
Henry IV, Pt. 1, from the British
Library.
Another copy of this quarto from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo).
- The
1622
6th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1622
6th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library.
- The
1632 7th quarto of
Henry IV, Pt. 1, from the British
Library.
Another copy of this quarto from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo).
- The
1632
7th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library.
- The
1632
7th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library.
- The
1639 8th quarto of
Henry IV, Pt. 1, from the British
Library.
Another copy of this quarto from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo).
- The
1639
8th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
National Library of Scotland.
- The
1639 8th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1639
8th quarto of Henry IV, Part 1 from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library.
- The
1639 8th quarto of The historie of Henry the
Fourth : vvith the battell at Shrewsbury, betweene the King, and
Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the
humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstaffe, from a volume held by
the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry
Sirnamed Hot-Spurre, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from The Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry
Sirnamed Hot-Spurre,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry
Sirnamed Hot-Spurre,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from
the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts
University, from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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The
first Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry
Sirnamed Hot-Spurre,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from
Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume
held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry
Sirnamed Hot-spurre, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry
Sirnamed Hot-spurre, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The First Part of Henry IV, with the Life and Death of Henry,
Sirnamed Hot-Spur, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimiles of modern (usually nineteenth century or
later) printed editions, now in the public domain.
Henry IV, Part 2
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Henry IV, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic Facsimile Editions of early quartos and
folios.
 Henry
IV, Part 2 was entered in the Stationers' Register,
along with Much Ado About Nothing, on August 23,
1600:
Aug. 23, 1600.
And. Wise, and Wm. Aspley.] Muche Adoe about Nothinge...
Second Part of the History of King Henry the Fourth,
with the Humors of Sir John Fallstaff, written by Mr.
SHAKESPERE
It was printed in the same
year (quarto a) with the following title page:
The second part of Henrie
the fourth, continuing to his death, and coronation of
Henrie the fift. With the humours of Sir Iohn Falstaffe,
and swaggering Pistoll. As it hath been sundrie times
publikely acted by the Right Honourable, the Lord
Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William
Shakespeare.
London: printed by V. S. [Valentine Simmes] for Andrew
Wise, and William Aspley, 1600.
It was reprinted in the same
year (quarto b) with act III scene i added, which had been
omitted from the first printing. It was not printed
again until the First Folio, which must have been type set
from an original manuscript since the Folio version contains
passages not contained in either early quarto. It is
speculated that the passages removed from the early
printings were politically sensitive, in view of the
strained relationships between the court and the Essex
factions in 1600, and that they were removed at the behest
of the censor. Indeed,
the Essex revolt occurred early the next year, in which
Shakespeare's company played their small, though thankfully
forgivable, part. The Folio text also was edited to
cut the oaths, in observance of the act of parliament of
1606 forbidding the use of the names of the deity, an act
which also required heavy cutting of Henry IV, Part 1.
Between the quarto and folio texts a full text is available
which must reflect Shakespeare's manuscript, or at least the
company's prompt version. Henry IV, Part 2
obviously feeds on the popularity of Part 1, but it is not
known whether it was written before or after The Merry
Wives of Windsor. If before, it was probably
written in late 1596; if after, in mid- to late 1597.
The illustration above is
from the Chalmers edition, 1805, an engraving by James
Neagle on a design by Henry Fuseli. |
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The
1600 (a) quarto of Henry IV, Pt. 2, from the British
Library.
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The
1600 (b) quarto of Henry IV, Pt. 2, from the British
Library originally possessed by Garrick,
and another originally possessed by George III.
-
Another copy of the
1600
quarto of Henry IV, Part 2 from the Rare Book Room (Octavo)
from a volume held by the British Library; and yet
another.
-
The
quarto of 1600 of The Second parte of Henrie the fourth
continuing to his death, and coronation of Henrie the fift, from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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The
1600 quarto of Henry IV, Part 2 from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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The
1600
quarto of The Second parte of Henrie the fourth
continuing to his death, and coronation of Henrie the fift, from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing His Death : and the
Coronation of King Henry the Fift, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Second Part of Henry IV, Containing His Death : and Coronation
of Henry V, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimiles of modern (usually nineteenth century or
later) printed editions, now in the public domain.
Henry V (1599)
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Henry V (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions of early quartos and
folios.
Henry V is one of the few plays by Shakespeare
that can be reliably dated. The prologue to act V
(ll30-34) reads:
Were now the general of our gracious empress,
As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
How many would the peaceful city quit,
To welcome him!
 The
general is, of course Essex, who left London on March 27,
1599 on his Irish campaign. After his disastrous
management of the campaign, he returned to England
precipitously, and ill advisedly, on September 28, 1599.
The play must have been finished during this period.
It is also worth noting that the play is not mentioned in
Francis Meres' list of Shakespeare's plays in
Palladis
Tamia, published autumn 1598. It is often
thought that "this wooden O" in the opening prologue refers
to the newly erected Globe on the Bankside. If one
accepts
Sohmer's arguments for opening day of the Globe being 12
June, 1599, it may well be that Henry V was one of the first
plays presented there. Early Spring-Summer, 1599,
then, is a fairly certain date for this plays composition.
The play was first entered in the Stationers' Register by
the printer James Roberts along with Much Ado About
Nothing, As You Like It, and Every Man In His
Humour on August 4, 1600, with a notation that it is "to
be staid." It is believed that this was a measure
taken to attempt to block the printing of the plays without
permission. Nevertheless, the play was printed in an
unauthorized quarto in 1600.
The cronicle history of
Henry the fift, with his battell fought at Agin Court in
France. Togither with Auntient Pistoll. As it hath bene
sundry times playd by the Right Honorable the Lord
Chamberlaine his seruants.
London: printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Millington,
and Iohn Busby. And are to be sold at his house in
Carter Lane, next the Powle head, 1600.
The first quarto is a corrupt version of the text of the
First Folio, and it is believed it is a memorial
reconstruction of a shortened acting version of the play.
This text was reissued in 1602 as the second quarto, and
again in 1619 by Pavier and Jaggard, falsely dated 1608, as
the third quarto. The First Folio text, therefore,
which must be based on Shakespeare's manuscript, is the
authoritative text for the play. |
- The
1600 1st quarto of Henry V from the British Library.
Another
copy of the 1600 1st quarto from the Rare Book Room of the copy
held by the British Library.
- The
1600
1st quarto of Henry V from the Rare Book Room (Octavo)
from a volume held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
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An electronic facsimile edition of the 1619 (dated 1608) 3rd Quarto edition of
Henry V
from the Furness Shakespeare Library.
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The
1619 3rd quarto (dated 1608) of Henry V from the British
Library originally possessed by Garrick,
and another originally possessed by George III. Copies of
these quartos are also available from the Rare Book Room (Octavo):
Garrick
George
III.
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The
1619 3rd quarto (dated 1608) of The Chronicle
History of Henry the Fift, with his battell fought at Agin Court in
France. Together with Ancient Pistoll, from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by National Library
of Scotland. Owned initially by the great Shakespeare editor
George Stevens (1736–1800); then Richard Forster; then John Stuart,
first Marquiss of Bute. The Bute collection was eventually (1956)
purchased by the National Library of Scotland.
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The
1619 3rd quarto (dated 1608) of Henry V from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. The
volume had been owned by Edward Capell, then by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps, who gave it to the University Library.
- The
1619 3rd quarto (dated 1608) of Henry V from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1619 3rd quarto (dated 1608) of The chronicle history of
Henry the fift : with his battell fought at Agin Court in France :
together with ancient pistoll : as it hath bene sundry times played by
... the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants from a volume held by the
Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The Life of Henry the Fift, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
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The Life of Henry the Fift,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by
the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
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The Life of Henry the Fift,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus
Garner, part of the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a
volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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The Life of Henry the Fift,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
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The Life of Henry the Fift,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the
State Library of New South Wales.
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The Life of Henry the Fift,
in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Life of King Henry the Fifth, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Life of King Henry V, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Henry VI, Part 1*
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions of early
folios.
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The first Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
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The
first Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
-
The
first Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The
first Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
The
first Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
The First Part of Henry the Sixt,
in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The first Part of King Henry the Sixth, in the Third
Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
-
The First Part of King Henry VI, in the Fourth Folio of
1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Henry VI, Part 2
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Henry VI, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
 Electronic Facsimile Editions of early quartos and
folios.
-
The
first part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of Yorke and
Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey,
1594, Q1, from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
-
The
first part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of Yorke and
Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey,
1600, Q2, from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
-
The
first part of the Contention of the two famous Houses of Yorke and
Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey,
1600, Q2, from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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The
1619 3rd quarto of Henry VI, Parts 2 & 3, from the British
Library originally possessed by Garrick,
and another originally possessed by George III. These
were issued by Pavier in 1619.
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The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster
and Yorke, 1619 (Pavier). This was Pavier's issue
of Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3 together under a single
title, from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) which is another copy held
by the British Library. This was the copy owned by George III.
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The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster
and Yorke, bound with Pericles, Prince of Tyre 1619
(Pavier). This was Pavier's issue of Henry VI, Part 2
and Henry VI, Part 3 together under a single title and also bound
with Pericles, Prince of Tyre, from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) which is another copy held by the British Library. There
are extremely rare examples of the so-called "Pavier collection"
(ten plays printed by Thomas Pavier in 1619, then re-issued with
false or no dates individually thereafter, containing all ten plays:
actually eight by Shakespeare, Henry V, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3
(these two combined as a single play titled The Whole Contention between
the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and York), A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King
Lear, Pericles, and two apocryphal plays attributed to
Shakespeare, A Yorkshire Tragedy and Sir John Oldcastle--bound
together in a single volume.
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The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster
and Yorke, 1619, Pavier, from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the University of Edinburgh Library,
given to the library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
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The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster
and Yorke, 1619, Pavier, from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National Library of Scotland.
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The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster
and Yorke, Part 1, 1619, Pavier, from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford.
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The whole contention (1619) part 1: the first part of the contention
of the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster, with the death of
the good Duke Humfrey; the third quarto, 1619 (Q1 having been
revized by Shakspere, Marlowe, and Greene into "The second part of
Henry the sixt") A facsimile (1886), by Charles
Praetorius, forward by Frederick Furnivall, from the Internet
Archive.
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The second Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The
second Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
-
The
second Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
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The
second Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
The
second Part of Henry the Sixt, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke
Humfrey, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, With the Death of the Good
Duke Humphrey, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
The Second Part of King Henry VI, With the Death of the Good Duke
Humphrey, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from
Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume
held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Henry VI, Part 3
HTML Editions
Henry VIII* (Shakespeare and Fletcher)
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
Henry VIII (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
- HTML version of
Henry VIII
from MIT.
Electronic Facsimile Editions of early
folios.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes
and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Famous History of King Henry the Eighth, in the
Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, in
the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
Julius Caesar*
(1599)
Julius Caesar was
printed for the first time in the First Folio of 1623. Later folio
editions introduce minor variations but do not change the text in any
significant way. There are no quarto editions. I have
presented HTML editions; scanned facsimile editions from the Folios;
scanned editions from modern books (but not too modern, since I only
present complete or "full view" editions containing text of the entire
play, often with editorial introductions, notes, glosses, and so forth;
plain text editions; and "other" editions, distinguished by some odd or
interesting feature. Many HTML editions are based on the "Complete
Moby Shakespeare," from Moby Lexical Services. I have only
included representative copies of this version since it is so common.
I have also not included version oh advertising.
In fact, a bare minimum of tasteful advertising, if any, is a strong
qualifier on what is included among the selections.
HTML editions
- Original
spelling transcription of the
First
Folio version with
scene navigation, from
Internet Shakespeare
Editions.
- Original
spelling transcription of the
First
Folio version with
act navigation from the etext center at the University of
Virginia.
- HTML
Julius
Caesar from Renascence
Editions, a copy of the
University of Adelaide mirror of the ERIS Project
plain text edition.
- HTML Globe
edition of
Julius Caesar from the Perseus Project, Tufts
University. The Globe Shakespeare is "the
one-volume version of the great Cambridge Shakespeare
(1891-3) edited by
W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright.
The Cambridge
Shakespeare was the reference edition well into the
twentieth century, and many important works of scholarship are
keyed to it" (from the
Perseus Project web site).
- Julius Caesar
from the 1914 Oxford Shakespeare, W. J. Craig, ed., at
bartleby.com.
-
Julius Caesar from the collected works at MIT (known as
the Moby Shakespeare).
-
Julius Caesar from the
etext center at the
University of Virginia HTML edition based on the Moby Lexical
project, in turn based on the Globe edition.
- The HTML
version from Matty Farrow's collected works at the
University of Sydney.
-
Julius Caesar from the Open Source Shakespeare.
- Julius Caesar from PlayShakespeare.com.
-
Another version based on the Moby Shakespeare from the
Pasadena Shakespeare Company.
-
Julius Caesar, an HTML version of plain text from the
eServer Drama Collection.
- HTML editions of the plain text
version from Project Gutenberg.
Electronic facsimile editions from the Folios:
-
The Tragedie of Julius Caesar, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
First Folio version
from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) at the University of
Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Julius Caesar, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedie of Julius Caesar, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
The Tragedie of Julius Caesar, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
First Folio version from the copy held by the State
Library of New South Wales via
Internet Shakespeare
Editions.
- Reduced size facsimile of the
First Folio version of Julius Caesar published by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillips in 1887 (Funk & Wagnalls, 399 pages) from
Google Book Search,
full view and PDF, scanned from the Harvard University
Library.
-
Second Folio version in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
Third Folio version (1664)
in the copy held by the
State Library of New South Wales via
Internet Shakespeare
Editions.
-
Fourth Folio version (1685)
in the copy held by the
State Library of New South Wales via
Internet Shakespeare
Editions.
Electronic facsimile editions from modern books:
-
Julius Caesar,
ed. Edward Everett Hale, Newson & co., 1902, from
Google Book Search, full view and PDF.
-
Julius Caesar, The New Hudson Shakespeare, ed. E. C. Black, Ginn
& Co., 1908, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF, 174 pages.
-
Julius Caesar, ed. A. H. Tolman, Globe School Book Co., 1901,
from Google Book Search, full view and PDF, 151 pages.
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Julius Caesar, ed. W. A. Wright, Clarendon Press, 1887, from
Google Book Search, full view and PDF, 203 pages.
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, The Arden Shakespeare, ed. A. D.
Innes, D. C. Heath & Co., 1915, from Google Book Search, full view and
PDF, 190 pages.
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar, ed. W. J. Rolfe,
American Book Co., 1900, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF, 199
pages.
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Shakespere's Julius Caesar, Longmans' English Classics, ed. G.
C. D. Odell, Longmans, Green & Co., 1900 from Google Book Search, full
view and PDF, 161pages.
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Julius Caesar, Gateway Series, ed. H. W. Mabie, American Book
Co., 1905, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF, 153 pages.
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, ed. William Strunk,
D. C. Heath and Co., 1915, from Google Book Search, full view
and PDF, 190 pages.
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Julius Caesar, French's Acting Edition No. 596, from the
Internet Archive.
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Julius Caesar in J. P. Collier's 1853 collected edition
from Google Book Search, full view and PDF.
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Julius Caesar in
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare with Dr. Johnson's
Preface, ed. William Harness, Henry A. Sumner & Co.,
1882, from Google Book Search, full view and PDF, 926 pages.
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Julius Caesar in
The Complete Works of William Shakeseare, ed. G. L.
Duyckinck, Porter and Coats, 1869, in Google Book Search, full
view and PDF, 968 pages.
Plain text editions
- Plain text, Plain text zipped, and Plucker
format downloadable files containing the text of
Julius Caesar
from Project Gutenberg.
- The plain text "Hudson
Edition" from Project Gutenberg.
- The plain text "World
Library Edition" from Project Gutenberg.
- The plain text "First
Folio" transcription from Project Gutenberg.
"Other" editions:
- A paraphrase edition by Kathy Livingston.
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Julius Caesar for Young Readers and Amateur Players,
Doubleday, 1912, from Google Book Search, full view.
-
Audio excerpts from Julius Caesar from Harper Audio
multicasting service, in .au, .gsm, and .ra formats.
- A
Real Video version of Julius Caesar, co-produced by
Actors' Theatre, Davis Discovery Program, and Government Television
(GTC-3) of Columbus, Ohio. The play is in two parts:
 Part
one (approx. 1 hr.) -
Part two (approx. 1 hr.)
Productions
King
John*
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
King John (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from the folios:
-
The life and death of King John, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The life and death of King John, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
-
The life and death of King John, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of
the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The life and death of King John, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
The life and death of King John, in the First
Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
The life and death of King John, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Life and Death of King John, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Life and Death of King John, in the Fourth Folio of
1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Electronic facsimile editions from modern books:
King Lear
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
King Lear (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
-
King Lear (incorporating Q1 and F1) with linked glossary, is
presented by Dr. Larry A. Brown. Dr. Brown has included two very
interesting introductory articles, "Aristotle
on Greek Tragedy," and "Tragedy
After Aristotle."
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and folios.
 |
|
Illustration
of Lear, Kent, the Fool and Poor Tom on the heath
from the Staunton edition, vol. III, 1860,
p. 87. |
King Lear was entered in the Stationers' Register
November 26, 1607:
Nov. 26, 1607.
Nath. Butter and John Busby.] Mr. Willm.
Shakespeare, his Hystorye of Kinge Lear, as yt was
played before the King's Majestic at Whitehall, upon St.
Stephen's night at Christmas last, by his Majesties
servants playing usually at the Globe on the Bank-side
The first quarto, known as the "Pide Bull" quarto, was
printed in 1608 with the following title page:
M. William Shak-speare:
his true chronicle historie of the life and death of
King Lear and his three daughters. With the vnfortunate
life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster,
and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam: as it
was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon
S. Stephans night in Christmas hollidayes. By his
Maiesties seruants playing vsually at the Gloabe on the
Bancke-side.
London: printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter,
and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at
the signe of the Pide Bull neere St. Austins Gate, 1608.
The text of Q1 is corrupt in places, and it is often
argued that it is a "bad" quarto, based on memorial
reconstruction, though apparently it was an authorized
printing.
The second quarto was an unauthorized re-print of Q1 by
Isaac Jaggard in 1619 and fraudulently dated 1608. It
has the following title page:
M. William Shake-speare,
his true chronicle history of the life and death of King
Lear, and his three daughters. With the vnfortunate life
of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and
his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it
was plaied before the Kings Maiesty at White-hall, vppon
S. Stephens night, in Christmas hollidaies. By his
Maiesties seruants, playing vsually at the Globe on the
Banck-side.
[London]: Printed [by William Jaggard] for Nathaniel
Butter, 1608
The Folio text differs from the Q1 text, and it is
speculated that it was printed from the text of Q1 corrected
from the prompt-copy of the King's Men. The text
offers very complex textual problems, akin to the textual
problems of Pericles. The Folio has 100 lines
not present in Q1, and Q1 has some 300 lines not present in
the Folio. Neither is regarded as authoritative.
King Lear was probably written in late 1605 or
early 1606. Gloucester's reference to "These late
eclipses of the sun and moon" (1.2.112) is by some
authorities taken to refer to the eclipses of September and
October 1605. |
- Two examples of the 1608 1st quarto of King Lear from the
British Library, both originally possessed by Halliwell-Phillipps:
1
2.
Both are examples of the "Pide Bull" edition, named for the imprint
on the title page "Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold
at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neare
St. Austins Gate. 1608."
- Another
1608 1st quarto of King Lear from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, this one being an example of
the "Pied Bull" printing.
- The
1608 1st
quarto of King Lear from a copy held by the British
Library with an appendix by Charles Praetorius, 1885, from Google
Book Search.
- Three examples of the 1619 (dated 1608) 2nd quarto of King Lear
from the British Library, the first originally possessed by Garrick,
the second by George III and the third of unknown provenance:
1
2
3.
Q2 is Pavier's reprint, in 1619, of Q1, fraudulently dated 1608.
- The
1619 2nd quarto (dated 1608) of King Lear from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford, and
another copy from a volume held by the National Library of
Scotland.
- The
1619 2nd quarto (dated 1608) of M.
VVilliam [Shake]-speare : his true chronicle history of the life and
death of King Lear and his three daughters, with the unfortunate
life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his
sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam, in Horace Howard
Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of King Lear, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tragedie of King Lear, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard
Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center
for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of King Lear, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedie of King Lear, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Tragedie of King Lear, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
-
The Tragedie of King Lear,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes
and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of King Lear, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Tragedy of King Lear, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimile editions from modern books:
-
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. (Though dated 1723, the Pope's edition was
printed 1725).
Electronic facsimile editions of 17th century revisions of the
play:
- Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
The history of King Lear : Acted at the Duke's theatre.
London: Printed for E. Flesher, and are to be sold by R. Bentley, and M.
Magnes in Russel-Street near Covent-Garden, 1681; from a volume held by
the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
Love's Labour's Lost
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
The first appearance of
Shakespeare's name on the title page of a printed play was
the quarto publication of
Love's Labour's Lost.
The first quarto, and
only authoritative text, of Love's Labour's Lost
appeared in 1598 with the following title page:
A pleasant conceited comedie called, Loues labors
lost. As it was presented before her Highnes this last
Christmas. Newly corrected and augmented by W.
Shakespere.
Imprinted at London: by W. W. [William White] for
Cutbert Burby, 1598.
The W. W. is thought to be William
White (d. 1615). Cuthbert Burby (d. 1607) owned the
copyright to this play and to Romeo and Juliet,
transferred on his death to Nicholas Ling.
Q1 served as the text for the Folio
printing, but it has been revised inconsistently, giving
rise to a theory of a lost Q0, but there is no other
evidence for a lost quarto (except for the "Newly corrected
and augmented" tag printer on the Title page of Q1. It is
often noted that the stage directions in Q1 are unusually
full and descriptive, indicating perhaps an absence from the
playhouse and/or a production for non-professionals. Once
again, this is only a theory.
Because it is full of inside jokes
and parodies, a case has been made for Love's Labour's
Lost having been written for a private party, probably
involving Southampton and his circle, and later adapted for
the stage. It does seem to have strong associations with
the Southampton circle, though this theory is by no means
universally accepted. Those who advance it usually place
the play in about 1593-94, in the period of Venus and
Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, with which it has
obvious affinities. A popular theory of Shakespeare's life
has him serving as Southampton's secretary or literary
assistant during this period of closure of the public
playhouses.
Peter Ackroyd in his
Shakespeare: The Biography says that LLL is "so
highly allusive and ironic that it hardly seems designed for
the public playhouses...there has even been speculation that
it was first performed in Southampton House or at Titchfield.
In a ground plan for Titchfield House there is an upstairs
chamber designated as the 'Playhouse Room,' just to the left
of the main entrance...it has been variously interpreted as
a playful satire upon Southampton and his circle, upon Lord
Strange and his supporters, upon Thomas Nashe, upon John
Florio, upon Sir Walter Raleigh and the notorious 'school of
night.' There are references to a thundering rival poet,
George Chapman, and to other Elizabethan notables who are
now less well known...and it may indeed refer to all of
them."
If indeed the play was acted for the
Southampton circle, it must later have been translated to
the Theatre repertory. It is known to have been acted
before Queen Elizabeth in 1597 (see the text on the title
page), and Southampton had it performed for the family of
King James at Southampton House in 1605.
What is definitely known is that it
appears in the list of Shakespeare's plays in Francis Meres'
Palladis Tamia
in 1598. It is also (in all likeliehood) referenced in
Robert Tofte's Alba, or The Month's Mind of a Melancholy
Lover, also published in 1598: "I once did see a play
ycleped so," (see Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines,
p. 305. The play was most likely written, therefore,
between 1593 and 1597, though may be a revision of a much
earlier work. |
- The
1598 1st quarto of
Love's Labour's Lost from the
British Library.
Another copy of this work is available for inspection from
the Rare Book Room (Octoavo).
- The
1598
1st quarto of Love's Labour's Lost from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the University of
Edinburgh Library. "This quarto was donated to the University
of Edinburgh in 1627 by James Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), a
former student at the university, as well as a poet and man of
letters" (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1598 1st quarto of Love's Labour's Lost from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
-
Shakspere's Loves labors lost : the first quarto, 1598 :
a facsimile in photo-lithography (1880) with an introduction by
Frederick Furnivall, from Internet Archive, in various formats.
- Two examples of the 1631 2nd quarto of Love's Labour's Lost
from the British Library, the first originally possessed by Garrick,
the second by George III:
1
2.
These volumes are also available for inspection from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo):
Garrick
George III.
- The
1631
2nd quarto of Love's Labour's Lost from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the University of
Edinburgh Library. This volume had been the property of J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps, who gave it to the library.
- The
1631 2nd quarto of Love's Labour's Lost from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford; and
another copy held by the same library.
- The
1631
2nd quarto of Love's Labour's Lost from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. "This second quarto of Love’s Labours
Lost was owned by Dr. Richard Farmer (1735–1797), Shakespeare
scholar and collector, and Canon of St. Paul’s, London. It was sold
at 1798 Farmer sale to the English book collector Richard Forster
and then acquired 1806 by John Stuart, the first Marquis of Bute
(1744–1814). Stuart added it to the Bute Collection of early English
plays...The Bute Collection is now in the National Library of
Scotland, which purchased it from Major Michael Crichton Stuart on 3
April 1956" (Octavo statement of provenance.)
- The
1631 2nd quarto of Loues Labours lost : a vvittie
and pleasant comedie : as it was acted by his Maiesties seruants at
the Blacke-Friers and the Globe, in Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
Loves Labour's lost, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
Love's Labour's lost, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
Love's Labour's lost, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
Love's Labour's lost, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
Love's Labour's lost, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
Loves Labour's lost, in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes
and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
Facsimile edition of
Love's Labour's Lost
from the 1632 Second Folio via the Holloway Pages.
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Love's Labour's lost, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
Love's Labours lost, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Facsimile Editions of Modern Editions
- The 1904 Variorum edition of
Love's
Labour's Lost edited by H. H. Furness, from Google Book
Search, full view and PDF.
Macbeth* (1606)
HTML editions.
-
An original spelling transcription of
Macbeth (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
-
The Roanoke
Macbeth Page.
Electronic facsimile editions from early
folios.
-
The Tragedie of Macbeth, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tragedie of Macbeth, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Macbeth, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Tragedie of Macbeth, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedie of Macbeth, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Tragedie of Macbeth, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Macbeth, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664
(Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Macbeth, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Measure for Measure*
HTML Editions
-
An original spelling transcription of
Measure For Measure (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
-
The Interactive Shakespeare Project study guide to
Measure for Measure.
Electronic facsimile editions from early
folios.
-
Measure, for Measure, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
Measure for Measure, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
Measure for Measure, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
Measure for Measure, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
Measure for Measure, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
Measure for Measure, in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes
and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
Measure for Measure, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
Measure for Measure, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
The Merchant of Venice
HTML Editions
-
An original spelling transcription of
The Merchant of Venice (1623 First Folio Edition) from
the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
|
The Merchant of Venice was first printed in quarto
in 1600 with the following title page:
The most excellent
historie of the merchant of Venice. With the extreame
crueltie of Shylocke the Iewe towards the sayd merchant,
in cutting a iust pound of his flesh: and the obtayning
of Portia by the choyse of three chests. As it hath
beene diuers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his
seruants. Written by William Shakespeare.
At London: printed by I. R. [James Roberts] for Thomas
Heyes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the
signe of the Greene Dragon, 1600.
Consequently it is often called
the "Heyes Quarto."
The second quarto was practically
printed in 1619 by Thomas Pavier and William Jaggard, and
fraudulently dated 1600 in order to circumvent, it is
thought, an order by the Lord Chamberlain of May, 1619, that
plays belonging to the King's Men could not be printed
without consent. Pavier printed nine other plays at
that time.
The First Folio text is based on
the text of the first quarto, which itself may have been
printed from Shakespeare's "foul papers."
The play was entered in the
Stationers' Register July 22, 1598:
"James Robertes.] A booke of
the Marchaunt of Venyce, or otherwise called the Jewe of
Venyse. Provided that y t bee not prynted by the said
James Roberts or anye other whatsoever, without lycence
first had of the right honourable the Lord Chamberlen"
(see "Entries
on the Stationers' Books" in Malone).
It appears in the list of
Shakespeare's plays in Francis Meres'
Palladis
Tamia in 1598. The
play was most likely written between 1596 and 1598. |
- Three examples of the 1600 1st quarto of The Merchant of Venice
from the British Library, the first originally possessed by Garrick,
the second two by George III:
1
|
2
|
3.
- The same three copies of the 1600 1st quarto of The Merchant
of Venice from the Rare Book Room (Octavo):
Garrick |
George III |
George III from volumes held by the British Library.
- The
1600 1st quarto of The Excellent History of the Merchant
of Venice with the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Jew toward the
saide Merchant in cutting a just pound of his flesh. And the
obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three Caskets, from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1600
1st quarto of The Merchant of Venice, from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. Apparently a copy that at one time
belonged to Lewis Theobald, containing his annotations.
- Two examples of the 1619 (dated 1600) 2nd quarto of The Merchant
of Venice from the British Library, the first originally
possessed by Garrick, the second by George III:
1
2.
- The same two copies of the 1619 (dated 1600) 2nd quarto of The
Merchant of Venice from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from volumes
held by the British Library:
Garrick |
George III.
- The
1619
2nd quarto (dated 1600) of The Merchant of Venice
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from volumes held by the
University of Edinburgh Library.
Given to the library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1619 2nd quarto (dated 1600) of The excellent
history of the merchant of Venice : with the extreme cruelty of
Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound
of his flesh : and the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three
caskets, from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
- The
1637 3rd quarto of
The Merchant of Venice from the
British Library.
- The same copy of the
1637
3rd quarto of The Merchant of Venice from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library.
- The
1637
3rd quarto of The Merchant of Venice from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. Part of the Bute collection purchased by
the National Library of Scotland from Major Michael Crichton Stuart
on 3 April 1956.
- The
1637
3rd quarto of The Merchant of Venice from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the University of
Edinburgh Library. Given to the library in 1872 by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1637
3rd quarto of The Merchant of Venice from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1637
3rd quarto of The Merchant of Venice from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
-
The
Merchant of Venice, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard
Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center
for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664
(Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Merchant of Venice, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimiles of 18th Century revisions of the play.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
HTML Editions
-
An original spelling transcription of
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1623 First Folio Edition)
from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
 |
Falstaff
holding court
Illustration from the 1843 three-volume edition
of the works by Barry Cornwall (Bryan
Waller Procter). The illustration is by
Kenny Meadows. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor was first entered in
the Stationers' Register on January 18, 1602 (NS):
John Busby. An excellent and pleasant conceited
commedie of Sir John Faulstof and the Merry Wyves of
Windesor...
Arth. Johnson. The preceding entered as assigned to him
from John Busby...
It was printed later that year with the following title
page:
A most pleasaunt and
excellent conceited comedie, of Syr Iohn Falstaffe, and
the merrie wiues of Windsor. Entermixed with sundrie
variable and pleasing humors, of Syr Hugh the Welch
knight, Iustice Shallow, and his wise cousin M. Slender.
With the swaggering vaine of Auncient Pistoll, and
Corporall Nym. By William Shakespeare. As it hath bene
diuers times acted by the Right Honorable my Lord
Chamberlaines seruants. Both before her Maiestie, and
else-where.
London: printed by T. C. [Thomas Creede] for Arthur
Iohnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles
Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the
Crowne, 1602.
The 1602 1st quarto is commonly
referred to as a "bad" quarto. Compared to the text of
the First Folio its text is corrupt. It is thought to
be a memorial reconstruction by the actor who played the
part of the Host. This quarto was reprinted in 1619,
as the 2nd quarto, by William Jaggard.
The text of the First Folio is therefore not based on the
first quarto, but rather thought to be based on the prompt
book of the King's Men.
The play is thought to have been written quickly in early
1597, hard upon the completion of Henry IV Part 2, and first
performed to celebrate the initiation of the newly elected
Knights of the Garter on April 23, St. George's Day, that
year at Windsor Castle. George Carey, Lord Hunsdon,
patron of Shakespeare's company was then elected. The
play makes frequent mention of Windsor Castle.
Rowe, in his Some Account of the
Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear prefaced to his
1709 edition of the works says of the play;
"She [Queen Elizabeth] was so well pleas'd with that admirable Character of Falstaff,
in the two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for
one Play more, and to shew him in Love. This is said to be the Occasion of his Writing The
Merry Wives of Windsor. How well she was obey'd, the Play it self is an admirable
Proof. Upon this Occasion it may not be improper to observe, that this Part of Falstaff
is said to have been written originally under the Name of Oldcastle; some of that
Family being then remaining, the Queen was pleas'd to command him to alter it; upon which
he made use of Falstaff. The present Offence was indeed avoided; but I don't know
whether the Author may not have been somewhat to blame in his second Choice, since it is
certain that Sir John Falstaff, who was a Knight of the Garter, and a
Lieutenant-General, was a Name of distinguish'd Merit in the Wars in France in Henry
the fifth's and Henry the Sixth's Times. What Grace soever the Queen confer'd
upon him, it was not to her only he ow'd the Fortune which the Reputation of his
Wit made."
Rowe may have picked this up and extended it from John
Dennis' dedication to his adaptation
The Comical Gallant, published in 1702. Dennis
says:
"This comedy was written at her [i.e., Queen
Elizabeth's] command, and by her direction, and she was
so eager to see it Acted, that she commanded it to be
finished in fourteen days and was afterward, as
Tradition tells us, very well pleas'd At the
Representation."
|
- The
1602 1st quarto of
The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the British Library.
- The
1602
1st quarto of of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British
Library.
- The
1602 1st quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- Two examples of the 1619 2nd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor
from the British Library, the first originally possessed by Garrick,
the second by George III:
1
2.
- The same two copies of the 1619 2nd quarto of The Merry Wives
of Windsor from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from volumes held by
the British Library:
Garrick |
George III.
- The
1619 2nd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1619
2nd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The National
Library of Scotland. Part of the Brute collection, purchased
from Major Michael Crichton Stuart on 3 April 1956.
- The
1630 3rd quarto of
The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the British Library.
- The
1630
3rd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British
Library.
- The
1630 3rd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1630
3rd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the University of
Edinburgh Library. This quarto had at one time belonged to
George Steevens, the great editor. It became the property of
Halliwell-Phillipps, who gave it to the library.
- The
1630
3rd quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. This volume had at one time belonged to
the great editor, George Steevens. It eventually became part
of the Brut collection, which purchased it from Major Michael
Crichton Stuart on 3 April 1956.
-
The
Merry Wives of Windsor, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and Blount),
from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard
Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center
for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by
Brandeis University Library.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the First Folio of
1623 (Jaggard and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
 |
|
The Hempen
Homespuns rehearse - "I will roar..."
Illustration from
A Midsummer Night's Dream edited by William
J. Rolfe, 1903. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream was first printed late
in 1600 with the following title page:
A midsommer nights dreame.
As it hath beene sundry times publickley acted, by the
Right Honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants.
Written by William Shakespeare.
Imprinted at London: [By Richard Bradock] for Thomas
Fisher, and are to be soulde at his shoppe, at the signe
of the White Hart, in Fleetestreete, 1600.
It was entered in the Stationers'
Register on October 8 of that year by Tho. Fysher.
The second quarto was printed in
1619 as part of the Pavier collection and falsely dated 1600
to circumvent an action on the part of the King's Men
attempting to block surreptitious printing of their
properties. The second quarto reprints the first, with
additional stage directions. The First Folio reprints
the second quarto and includes Act divisions.
Because Dream is a relatively
short play (fourth shortest) it is often claimed that it was
initially written for private performance rather than for
the stage. It is often suggested that the occasion was
an aristocratic wedding, and various weddings of the 1590s
have been suggested, though Stephen Greenblatt, editor of
The Norton Shakespeare, reminds us that "...there is
not a shred of actual evidence that A Midsummer Night's
Dream was ever performed at, let alone written expressly
for, such a wedding" (805).
It appears in the list of
Shakespeare's plays in Francis Meres'
Palladis
Tamia in 1598. The
play was most likely written 1594-1595. |
- The
1600 1st quarto of
A Midsummer Night's Dream from the
British Library.
- A copy of the
1600 1st quarto of A Midsommer nights dreame from The
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
- Another copy of the
1600 1st quarto of A Midsommer nights dreame from The
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford.
-
The
1600 1st quarto from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) in
Shakespeare Old Quartos,
Malone volume IV from a volume held
by The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- Another version of the
1600 1st quarto of
A Midsummer Night's Dream from the
Shakespeare Internet
Editions from the volume held by the British Library.
- Two examples of the 1619 2nd quarto (dated 1600 - see
The Pavier Collection) of A
Midsummer Night's Dream from the British Library, the first
originally possessed by Garrick, the second by George III:
1
2.
- Another example of the
1619
2nd quarto (dated 1600) from The
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
University of Edinburgh Library.
- Another example of the
1619
2nd quarto (dated 1600) from The
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland.
-
A
Midsommer Nights Dreame facsimile reprint of the text of the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), with introduction and notes by Henry Johnson, 1888.
-
A
Midsommer Nights Dreame in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
A Midsommer Nights Dreame in the First Folio of 1623
from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, SCETI,
University of Pennsylvania.
-
A Midsommer Nights Dreame in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus
Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
A Midsommer Nights Dreame in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
A Midsommer Nights Dreame in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
A Midsommer Nights Dreame in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
A Midsummers nights Dream from the Third Folio of 1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
A Midsummers nights Dream from the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Much Ado About Nothing
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
 |
Claudio reading
at Hero's Tomb
From William J. Rolfe's
"Friendly Shakespeare" edition
of 1906 |
Much ado about Nothing was first published in
quarto in 1600 with the following title page:
Much adoe about
nothing. As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted
by the Right Honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his
seruants. Written by William Shakespeare.
London: printed by V. S. [Valentine Simmes] for Andrew
Wise, and William Aspley, 1600.
Interestingly, in the speech heads in Act IV, scene ii,
the names Kemp and Cowley appear in place of Dogberry and
Verges, indicating that the text for the first quarto may
well have been Shakespeare's draft of the play, or his "foul
papers" as the author's original copy has been called.
The following illustration is taken from the First Folio
text, which was printed from the first quarto text.
Kemp is Will Kempe, the famous comedian and morris dancer
who left the King's Men at the end of 1599 to disappear on
the continent. Cowley is Richard Cowley, also a
comedian of long standing who is first mentioned in the 1590
plot of Tarleton's Seven Deadly Sins, is also
mentioned as one of the original Chamberlain's Men, one of
the original King's Men, is issued red clothe for his
participation in James' proceedings into the City of London
in 1604, and whose will is witnessed by John Heminges and
Cuthbert Burbage among others.
Much Ado was
entered on the books of the Stationers' Register August 4,
1600 along with As You Like It, Henry V and
Ben Jonson's Every Man In his Humour with the
notation "to be staid," which was a strategy used to prevent
unauthorized printing. It was re-entered in the
Register on August 23. The play is not mentioned in
Francis Meres' list of a dozen Shakespearean plays in
Palladis
Tamia, of 1598, but some suppose it to be the
original of Love's Labour's Won, which does appear in
the list. As stated, the text of the First Folio is
based on that of the first quarto.
The play undoubtedly
belongs to the latter part of 1598, and it is supposed its
first performance belongs to that year. |
- Two examples of the 1600 1st quarto of Much Ado About
Nothing from the British Library, the first
originally possessed by Garrick, the second by George III:
1
2.
- The same two examples of the 1600 1st quarto of Much Ado About
Nothing from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from volumes held by the
British Library:
Garrick |
George III.
- The
1600 1st quarto of Much Ado About Nothing from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1600
1st quarto of Much adoe about Nothing from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the University of Edinburgh Library.
This volume had belonged to Capell, the great editor, and was
eventually given to the library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
-
Much Ado
About Nothing, Photo-Lithographed, By Express Permission, and under
the Superintendence of Mr. H. Staunton, from The Matchless Original
of 1600, In the Library of the Earl of Ellesmere, Day &
Son, 1864, from GBS, full text and PDF.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
Facsimile edition of
Much Ado About
Nothing from the 1632 Second Folio (Cotes and Allot) via the Holloway Pages.
-
Much adoe about Nothing, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664
(Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
Much ado about Nothing, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Other Productions
-
The Globe 2007 production of
Much Ado About Nothing, with downloadable wma format
audio of the play and interviews with the director, Benedick,
Beatrice, Don Pedro and Leonato from The Standard Site.
Othello
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
Othello (1623 First Folio Edition) from the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
- HTML
Othello from MIT.
- HTML edition of
The Tragedie of Othello from the Classic Literature
Library.
- Plain text version of
Othello from Project Gutenberg.
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
- The
1622 1st quarto of
Othello of unknown provenance from
the British Library; another copy of the
1622 1st quarto from the BL originally belonging to Garrick.
- The
1622
1st quarto of Othello from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The book
was purchased by the British Museum in 1857.
- The
1622 1st quarto of
Othello originally owned by
Garrick from the British Library.
- The
1622
1st quarto of Othello from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
originally belonged to Garrick, who bequeathed it to the British
Library.
- The
1622
1st quarto of Othello from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. Given to the library by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps. "A Handwritten notes by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps stating “18 leaves ins this volume are original.
All the rest are in FS but 18 leaves of so very rare an edition
should not be dispised” on the recto of the first blank leaf; “C.
and P. J.O.H.” on obverse of back free endpaper." (Octavo statement
of provenance).
- The
1622 1st quarto from
Internet Shakespeare
Editions from the Garrick volume held by the British
Library.
- The
1630 2nd quarto of
Othello originally owned by George III
from the British Library.
- The
1630
2nd quarto of Othello from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
was formerly owned by George III.
- The
1630 2nd quarto of
Othello of unknown provenance from the
British Library.
- The
1630
2nd quarto of Othello from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. "Now in
the British Library, this quarto was likely formerly in the library
of Major Thomas Pearson (1740?–1781). Pearson served in India but
yet was able to amass a large collection, primarily of Elizabethan
works; his books were sold 14 April 1788" (Octavo statement of
provenance).
- The
1630
2nd quarto of Othello from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "A hand-written note by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps regarding this quarto’s duplicate B1 leaf is on
the recto of the first blank leaf; copy correction notes by J.O.H.
on obverse of back free endpaper." (Octavo's statement of
provenance).
- The
1630 2nd quarto of Othello from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1630
2nd quarto of Othello from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the National Library of Scotland.
This volume had belonged at one time to Steevens, and became part of
the Bute collection which was purchased by the library in 1956.
- The
1630 2nd quarto of The tragoedy of Othello, the
Moore of Venice : as it hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe,
and at the Black-Friers, by his Maiesties Seruants from a volume
held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library
from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI),
University of Pennsylvania.
- The
1681 4th quarto of Othello, The Moor of Venice : a
tragedy : as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe, and at
the Black-Friers, And now at the Theater Royal, by His Majesties
servants, from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Othello, The Moore of Venice,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tragedie of Othello, The Moore of Venice,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Othello, The Moore of Venice,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Tragedie of Othello, The Moore of Venice,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedie of Othello, The Moore of Venice,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by
the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Othello, Moore of Venice, in the Third
Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice, in the
Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
Other Productions
- Resources for the 2005 PBS production of
Othello.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
(Shakespeare and, perhaps, George
Wilkins; 1607-1608)
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
|
Pericles was not published in the First Folio
(1623), or the Second (1632), either because Blount and
Jaggard (publisher and printer of the First Folio) could not
obtain the copyright (doubtful), because the Q1/Q2 text was
regarded as too corrupt and another copy of the original
foul or fair papers, or the promptbook copy, could not be
found (possible), or because the work was regarded by
Heminge and Condell as not principally Shakespeare's own
(most likely). Nevertheless the play, as you can see
from the long list of extant quartos, was extremely popular.
In fact so popular that Q1 was printed again as Q2 within
its first year of publication, 1609. The play did not
appear in a Shakespeare folio until the second issue of the
Third Folio, 1664, where it appeared with six other
apocryphal Shakespeare plays. It was again printed in
the Fourth Folio, 1685, and appeared in Rowe's 1709 (and
1714) editions of the Plays. It was banished from
Pope's edition of 1725 (though appeared in an additional
volume to the 1728 second edition) but disappears again in
the next major edition of the Plays, Theobald's 1733
edition. In his 1790 edition Malone, the great
Elizabethan scholar and Shakespeare editor, finally and
decidedly admitted it into the Shakespeare canon, where it
has remained ever since. |
- The
1609 1st quarto of
Pericles from the British Library.
- The
1609
1st quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from
a volume held by the British Library. This volume had belonged
to George III.
- The
1609 1st quarto from the Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from the "W. W. Greg" volume held by the
British Library.
- The
1609 1st (?) quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) bound into "the fifth of seven other Shakespeare quartos
inlaid in Edmund Malone’s Volume III" held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
-
Shakespeares Pericles Being a Reproduction in Facsimile Of
The First Edition 1609, ed. Sidney Lee, 1905, from Google Book
Search, full view and PDF, 68 pages.
- The
1609 2nd quarto of
Pericles from the British Library.
- The
1609
2nd quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from
a volume held by the British Library. The volume had belonged
to Garrick.
-
 The
1611 3rd quarto of
Pericles from the British Library.
- Two examples of the 1619 4th quarto of Pericles from the
British Library, the first belonging the George III the second to
Garrick:
1
2.
- The
1611
3rd quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. "A note by
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps regarding the unique attributes of this
copy is pasted on the verso of the front free endpaper." (Octavo
statement of provenance). The quarto, of course, had belonged
to Halliwell-Phillipps before its acquisition by the library.
- The
1619
4th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This volume at
one time had belonged to Steevens.
- The
1619 4th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) is "the sixth of seven other Shakespeare quartos inlaid in
Edmund Malone’s Volume III" held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1619
4th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. Part of the Brut collection purchased by
the library in 1956.
- The
1619
4th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "Handwritten notes by J. O.
HalliwellPhillipps stating “The end is made up by Facsimile, but
this is this only uncut copy I ever saw.” on the recto of the first
blank leaf; “C. and P. Peculiarities collated. J.O.H.” on obverse of
back free endpaper." (Octavo statement of provenance).
-
The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and
Yorke, bound with Pericles, Prince of Tyre 1619 (Pavier).
This was Pavier's issue of Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3
together under a single title and also bound with Pericles,
Prince of Tyre, from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) which is
another copy held by the British Library. There are extremely rare
examples of the so-called "Pavier collection" (ten plays printed by
Thomas Pavier in 1619, then re-issued with false or no dates
individually thereafter, containing all ten plays:
actually eight by Shakespeare, Henry V, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3
(these two combined as a single play titled The Whole Contention between
the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and York), A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King
Lear, Pericles, and two apocryphal plays attributed to
Shakespeare, A Yorkshire Tragedy and Sir John Oldcastle--bound
together in a single volume.
- The
1630 5th quarto of
Pericles from the British Library.
- The
1630
5th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library.
- The
1630
5th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. "A note by
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps on the page opposite remarks on the
variant title pages accompanying the Pericles fifth quarto."
- The
1630
5th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland.
- The
1630
5th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "Handwritten notes by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps “Perfect. This ed. of 1630 with the imprint
differing from the copy with the same date is usually seen, is of
excessive rarity.” on the recto of the first blank leaf; copy
correction notes by J.O.H. on obverse of back free endpaper. List of
characters in the play on the verso of the title page in an
unidentified hand." (Octavo statement of provenance). The
volume was given to the library by Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1630 5th (variant) quarto of
Pericles from the
British Library. It at one time had belonged to Garrick.
- The
1630
5th (variant) quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. It at
one time belonged to David Garrick.
- The
1630
5th (variant) quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "Notes by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps on the page opposite states that is Theobald’s
copy, that the leaves pasted at the end contain “curious textual
variations, ” and that the copy is “perfect.” The title page is
signed by Theobald and a transcription of the 1609 Pericles title
page on its verso handwritten by Theobald. Copy correction notes by
J.O.H. on obverse of back free endpaper." (Octavo statement of
provenance). The book was given to the library by J. O.
Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1630
5th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford. This volume had at one time
been owned by Malone.
- The
1630 5th quarto of The late, and much admired
play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre : With the true relation of
the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd prince,
from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
- The
1635 6th quarto of
Pericles from the British Library.
- The
1635
6th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
had been owned by Garrick.
- The
1635
6th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. The volume was given to the
library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1635
6th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National Library of Scotland.
"This quarto was purchased by the National Library of Scotland from
Major Michael Crichton Stuart on 3 April 1956. It is part of the
Bute Collection of early English plays that was initially formed by
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)." (Octavo statement of
provenance).
- The
1635
6th quarto of Pericles from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford.
-
The much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the
relation of the whole History, Adventures, and Fortunes of the said
Prince, in the Third Folio of 1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
The much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the
relation of the whole History, Adventures, and Fortunes of the said
Prince, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Richard II
(1595)
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
Richard II (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
- HTML
Richard II
from MIT.
- Plain text version of
Richard II
from Project Gutenberg.
- Richard
II from Renascence Editions.
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
 |
Westminster
portrait of King Richard II
ca. 1390 |
The first quarto of Richard II appeared in 1597
with the abdication scene omitted (4.1.154-318). It
was enormously popular, and later quartos appeared in 1598
(two), 1608, 1615 and 1634. The abdication scene was
printed for the first time in Q4 (1608), with the heirless
Elizabeth safely long dead (she died in 1603).
Richard II was commissioned to be played by lords and
gentlemen implicated in the Essex rebellion of 1601 (see "The
Essex Rebellion and the Players"), which ended badly for
the lords and gentlemen and demonstrated the need for great
care in printing the text of the play. Elizabeth is
said to have commented "I am Richard II. Know ye not
that?" when prompted by the prospect of being replaced by a
man.
The play was entered in the Stationers' Register on
August 29, 1597. It was most likely written in 1595
and used the second edition of Holinshed's
Chronicles
and Daniel's
Civil Wars as sources. |
- The
1597 1st quarto of
Richard II from the British
Library.
- The
1597
1st quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
had been owned by Henry Huth and was bequeathed to the library.
- The
1597 1st quarto of Richard II from Internet Shakespeare
editions from the volume held by the British Library.
-
King Richard the Second, The First Quarto, 1597, a
facsimile in Photo-lithography, Charles Praetorius, from the copy in
the possession of Henry Huth.
- The
1598 2nd quarto of
Richard II from the British
Library.
- The
1598
2nd quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
had belonged to David Garrick, who bequeathed it to the library on
his death in 1779.
- The
1598 2nd quarto of The Tragedie of King Richard the
Second, from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
This volume had belonged to Edmund Malone, the great Elizabethan
scholar and Shakespeare editor, and was donated to the Bodleian in
1821.
-
A new Shakespeare quarto : the tragedy of King Richard II, printed
for the third time by Valentine Simmes in 1598. Reproduced in
facsimile from the unique copy in the library of William Augustus
White, with an introduction by Alfred W. Pollard (1916),
from the Internet Archive in various formats.
- The
1608 4th quarto of
Richard II from the British
Library.
- The
1608
4th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room (Octavo)
from a volume held by the British Library. "this quarto was
previously owned by Thomas Jolley whose collection was sold in seven
sales over the span of a decade (1843–1853). It was then acquired by
the nineteenth-century London book dealer/publisher Thomas Rodd, who
sold it in 1845." (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1608
4th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. The volume had been part of the Bute
collection and was purchased by the library in 1956.
- The
1608 4th quarto of Richard II of Richard II
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
"This fourth quarto of Richard II at the Bodleian is unique in that
its title page differs from the other extant 1608 quartos. It is the
first of six Shakespeare quartos inlaid in Edmund Malone’s Volume
V..." (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1608 4th
quarto (identified as 3rd quarto) of Richard II from
Shakespeare quarto facsimiles, W. A. Harrison, 1888, from Google
Book Search.
-
 The
1615 5th quarto of
Richard II from the British
Library
- The
1615
5th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
had belonged to Garrick who bequeathed it to the library in 1779.
- The
1615 5th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford. This volume had belonged to
Malone.
- The
1615
5th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. This volume had been owned by
Steevens, the great Shakespeare editor.
- The
1615
5th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. This volume was donated to
the library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- Two examples of the 1634 6th quarto of Richard II from
the British Library, the first originally belonging to Garrick, the
second the George III:
1
2.
- The
1634
6th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
had belonged to Garrick who bequeathed it to the library in 1779.
- The
1634
6th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. "Now at
the British Library, this quarto was formerly in the library of
George III (1738–1820), who reigned as king of Great Britain and
Ireland from 1760 until his death. At the start of George III’s
reign, there was no royal library to speak of; his grandfather,
George II, had presented his library to the British Museum in 1757.
In 1763, George III began his collection in earnest with the
acquisition of the library of Joseph Smith, the former British
consul in Venice whose collection contained many early printed books
and classics. The king’s agents attended many English and
Continental auctions, and they purchased both single volumes and
complete libraries on his behalf, steadily enlarging the royal
collection. In 1774 Frederick Augusta Barnard was appointed Royal
Librarian, a post he held for the remainder of George III’s reign.
Barnard, with the advice of such men of letters as Samuel Johnson,
enlarged the king’s library in a methodical fashion, assembling a
fine collections of religious texts, English an European history,
classics, English and Italian literature, and such incunables as a
Gutenberg Bible and a first edition of Caxton’s Canterbury Tales. By
1820, the library included 65,000 printed books and nearly 20,000
pamphlets; George IV, who succeeded his father on the throne,
donated the library to the British Museum in 1823. " (Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1634
6th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "This quarto was given to
Edinburgh University Library in 1872 by James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), the English Shakespeare collector
and scholar..." (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1634
6th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. "This quarto of Richard II was
owned by Dr. Richard Farmer (1735–1797), Shakespeare scholar and
Canon of St. Paul’s, London. His collection of early English books
was sold in 1798, and this quarto was purchased by the English book
collector Richard Forster. In 1806 it was acquired by John Stuart,
the first Marquis of Bute (1744–1814). Stuart added it to the Bute
Collection of early English plays that was initially formed by Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) and expanded by her son-in-law John
Stuart, third Earl of Bute. The first Marquis of Bute notably
acquired 39 Shakespeare quartos. The collection contains 1,266
English plays and includes seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and examples of the foremost
dramatists from Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline, and Restoration
periods; also included are a number of promptbooks. The Bute
Collection is now in the National Library of Scotland, which
purchased it from Major Michael Crichton Stuart on 3 April 1956."
(Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1634
6th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. This quarto was part of the Bute
collection, purchased by the library in 1956.
- The
1634
6th quarto of Richard II from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. This volume was
purchased by the library in 1830.
- The
1634 6th quarto (identified as quarto 5) from Shakespeare
quarto facsimiles, P. A. Daniel, 1887, from Google Book Search.
-
The life and death of King Richard the Second,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The life and death of King Richard the Second, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The life and death of King Richard the Second, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The life and death of King Richard the Second, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The life and death of King Richard the Second, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Life and Death of King Richard the Second,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by
the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, in the
Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare
Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State
Library of New South Wales.
-
The Life and Death of King Richard II, in the Fourth
Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
Other Productions
- Free Librivox audio reading of
Richard II in mp3 (64 and 128 kbps) and ogg vorbis
formats.
Richard III
(1592-1593)
HTML Editions
- An original spelling transcription of
Richard III (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
- The wonderful new html
Richard III
from the Richard III Society, complete with historical notes and references and links to
On-Line Reference Books for Medieval Studies. An outstanding edition! Not complete as of
this writing, but soon to be completed.
- Colley Cibber's
Richard
III as presented by the Richard III Society. Includes interesting
editor's notes and prefatory material. A very useful primary source contribution.
 The
Tragedy of Richard the Third... was entered in the
Stationers' Register October, 20, 1597, and appeared in its
first quarto the same year. It was an extremely
popular printed play, and quarto editions were repeated in
1598 (Q2), 1602 (Q3), 1605 (Q4), 1612 (Q5), 1622 (Q6), 1629
(Q7), and 1634 (Q8). The following, quoted from the
British Library, summarizes the printing sequence:
- First quarto, 1597. Printed from a manuscript
believed to have been prepared from memory by the Lord
Chamberlain’s Men (including Shakespeare himself) to
replace a missing prompt-book. Shakespeare’s name does
not appear on the title-page.
- Second quarto, 1598. Printed from the first quarto.
Shakespeare’s name is added to the title-page.
- Third quarto, 1602. Printed from the second quarto.
- Fourth quarto, 1605. Printed from the third quarto.
- Fifth quarto, 1612. Printed partly from the fourth
quarto and partly from the third.
- Sixth quarto, 1622. Printed from the fifth quarto.
- First folio, 1623. Printed from a manuscript
believed to be Shakespeare’s foul papers, collated with
the third quarto and probably for some parts of the text
with the sixth quarto. The text is longer than the
quarto version, but also omits lines found in the
latter. It has many other variants from the quarto text.
- Seventh quarto, 1629. Printed from the sixth quarto.
- Second folio, 1632. Printed from the first folio.
- Eighth quarto, 1634. Printed from the seventh
quarto.
|
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
| Q1 - 1597 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedy of King Richard the
third. Containing, his treacherous plots against his brother
Clarence: the pittiefull murther of his iunocent [sic]
nephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course
of his detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath
been lately acted by the Right Honourable the Lord
Chamberlaine his seruants.
At London: printed by Valentine
Sims, [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules
Chuch-yard [sic], at the signe of the Angell, 1597. |
- The
1597 1st quarto of
Richard III from the British
Library.
- The
1597
1st quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. "Now in
the British Library, this quarto was previously in the library of
Richard Heber (1773–1833), a British bibliophile who began to amass
a classical collection as an undergraduate at Oxford, but broadened
his collection to include rare editions of early English drama and
literature. He purchased both single volumes and entire libraries
and did not limit himself to a single copy of any particular book.
As a result, he owned at least 150,000 volumes, and his collection
filled eight houses. He was member of Parliament for Oxford
University (1821–26) and a founder of the Athenaeum Club in London.
The book then passed to Thomas Thorpe (1791–1851), one of London’s
foremost book dealers from the 1820s until his death, and from
Thorpe to George Daniel (1789–1864) an accountant, as were many
noteworthy book collectors; he was also a poet whose works included
Virgil in London (1814) and Democritus in London (1852). He
possessed numerous other choice volumes, especially of early English
literature: the finest extant example (the Moore-Booth-Rokewode
copy) of the First Folio, copies of the other three Shakespeare
folios, and eighteen of the much scarcer quartos, among which this
numbers. When the books were auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1864, so
esteemed was the collection that the sale catalogue was entitled The
Most Valuable, Interesting and Highly Important Library of the Late
George Daniel, Esq. This book was then acquired by Henry Huth
(1815–78), a merchant-banker and book collector who spent the last
three decades of his life seeking out rare books, visiting the
leading London book dealers daily on his return home from work.
Huth’s was a general library of manuscripts, incunables, continental
literature, and early Americana, with special strengths in English
poetry and plays. His son Alfred Henry Huth (1850–1910) retained the
collection and enlarged it through judicious selections. On his
death the British Museum library was allowed its choice of fifty
items, among which, presumably, this quarto figures." (Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1597 1st quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. "This rare quarto of
Richard III was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1821. It was
previously owned by Edmund Malone who bequeathed it, among many
other important books, to his older brother Richard, Lord Sunderlin.
Edmund Malone (1741–1812), after whom the Malone Society was named
in 1909, was a renowned Shakespeare scholar who began his literary
work in London in 1777. He was a friend to both Samuel Johnson and
James Boswell, and he assisted Boswell in revising his biography of
Johnson. Malone, the only collector of Shakespeare quartos to
acquire a complete set, published an 11-volume edition of
Shakespeare’s works in 1790 and unmasked the Shakespeare manuscript
forgeries of William Henry Ireland. Malone left his uncompleted work
on Shakespeare to James Boswell the younger, who had it published in
a 21-volume octavo edition in 1821 (Third Variorum Edition).
Although not particularly successful as a textual editor of
Shakespeare, Malone is especially noted for his work on Elizabethan
theater." (Octavo
statement of provenance).
| Q2 - 1598 - Bibliography from the British Library
The
tragedy of King Richard the third. Conteining his
treacherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pitiful
murther of his innocent nephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation:
with the whole course of the detested life, and most
deserued death. As it hath been lately acted by the Right
Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. By William
Shake-speare.
At London: printed by Thomas Creede, for Andrew Wise,
dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Angell,
1598. |
- Two examples of the 1598 2nd quarto of Richard III from
the British Library, the first originally belonging to
Halliwell-Phillipps, the second to Garrick:
1
2.
- The
1598
2nd quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This quarto had
been owned by Halliwell-Phillipps before its purchase by the British
Museum.
- The
1598
2nd quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This volume was
previously owned by Garrick.
- The
1598
2nd quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford. "This second quarto of Richard
III, before its acquisition by the Bodleian Library, was owned by
Richard Heber (1773–1833), British bibliophile, started amassing a
classical collection as an undergraduate at Oxford, but broadened
his collection to include rare editions of early English drama and
literature. He purchased both single volumes and entire libraries
and did not limit himself to a single copy of any particular book.
As a result, he owned at least 150,000 volumes, and his collection
filled eight houses. He was member of Parliament for Oxford
University (1821–26) and a founder of the Athenaeum Club in London."
(Octavo
statement of provenance).
| Q3 - 1602 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedie of King Richard the
third. Conteining his treacherous plots against his brother
Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent nephewes:
his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his
detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath bene
lately acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine
his seruants. Newly augmented, by William Shakespeare.
London: printed by Thomas Creede,
for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the
signe of the Angell, 1602. |
- The
1602 3rd quarto of
Richard III from the British
Library.
- The
1602
3rd quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This
volume was previously owned by Garrick.
| Q4 - 1605 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedie of King Richard the
third. Conteining his treacherous plots against his brother
Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent nephewes:
his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his
detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath bin
lately acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine
his seruants. Newly augmented, by William Shake-speare.
London: printed by Thomas Creede,
and are to be sold by Mathew Lawe, dwelling in Paules
Church-yard, at the signe of the Foxe, neare S. Austins
gate, 1605. |
- Two examples of the 1605 4th quarto of Richard III from
the British Library, the first originally belonging to
Halliwell-Phillipps, the second to George III:
1
2.
- The
1605
4th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This
volume had belonged to Halliwell-Phillipps before its acquisition by
the library.
- The
1605
4th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the National
Library of Scotland. This volume was part of the Bute
collection and was purchased by the library in 1956.
- The
1605
4th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The volume was
purchased by the Bodleian in 1840.
| Q5 - 1612 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedie of King Richard the
third. Containing his treacherous plots against his brother
Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent nephewes:
his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his
detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath beene
lately acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants. Newly
augmented, by William Shake-speare.
London: printed by Thomas Creede,
and are to be sold by Mathew Lawe, dwelling in Paules
Church-yard, at the signe of the Foxe, neare S. Austins
gate, 1612. |
-
 The
1612 5th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- The
1612
5th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. "This quarto was owned by Lewis
Theobald (1688–1744), an eighteenth-century Shakespeare editor,
literary critic, and poet; in 1726 Theobald wrote Shakespeare
Restored, in which he criticized Alexander Pope’s edition of
Shakespeare. The quarto was purchased in October 1744 by George
Steevens (1736–1800), an English Shakespeare editor who collaborated
with Samuel Johnson in issuing a complete edition of Shakespeare,
The Works of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of
Various Commentators (10 vols., 1773). Steevens owned roughly fifty
quartos, and his sale (13 May 1800) was the first large Shakespeare
collection to appear at auction, where this copy was purchased by
the English book collector Richard Forster. It was acquired by the
first Marquis of Bute from Forster’s 1806 sale. Stuart added it to
the Bute Collection ...The Bute Collection is now in the National
Library of Scotland, which purchased it from Major Michael Crichton
Stuart on April 3, 1956." (Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1612 5th quarto of
Richard III from the British
Library.
- The
1612
5th quarto (bound with the title page of the 5th quarto but
containing the text of the 4th quarto) of Richard III from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library.
- The
1612
5th quarto of Richard III
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. This
quarto was given to Edinburgh University Library in 1872 by James
Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889).
| Q6 - 1622 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedie of King Richard the
third. Contayning his treacherous plots against his brother
Clarence: the pittifull murder of his innocent nephewes: his
tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his
detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath been
lately acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants. Newly
augmented. By William Shake-speare.
London: printed by Thomas Purfoot,
and are to be sold by Mathew Law, dwelling in Pauls
Church-yard, at the signe of the Foxe, neere S. Austines
gate, 1622. |
- Three examples of the 1622 6th quarto of Richard III from
the British Library, the first originally belonging to Garrick, the
second to George III, the third to Halliwell-Phillipps:
1
2
3.
- The
1622
6th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This volume
belonged to David Garrick, who bequathed it to the library at his
death in 1779.
- The
1622
6th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The volume
belonged to George III and was donated to the library by George IV.
- The
1622
6th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This
volume belonged to Halliwell-Phillipps before it was acquired by the
library.
- The
1622
6th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by The Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford. "This quarto, before it was
purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1844, was likely owned by
Thomas Jolley, who collected books on English literature and
history, Americana and voyages; his collection was sold in seven
sales over the span of a decade (1843–1853)." (Octavo statement of
provenance).
| Q7 - 1629 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedie of King Richard the
third. Contayning his trecherous plots, against his brother
Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent nepthewes
[sic]: his tiranous vsurpation: with the whole course of his
detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath beene
lately acted by the Kings Maiesties sernauts [sic]. Newly
agmented [sic]. By William Shake-speare.
London: printed by Iohn Norton,
and are to be sold by Mathew Law, dwelling in Pauls Church-yeard,
at the signe of the Foxe, neere St. Austines gate, 1629. |
- The
1629 7th quarto of
Richard III from the British
Library.
- The
1629
7th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book Room
(Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This
volume had belonged to Garrick, who bequeathed it to the library.
- The
1629
7th quarto of Richard III (erroneously dated 1598)
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. This
volume was purchased by the library in 1829.
- The
1629
7th quarto of Richard III from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. This
volume was given to the library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1629
7th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
| Q8 - 1634 - Bibliography from the British Library
The tragedie of King Richard the
third. Contayning his treacherous plots, against his brother
Clarence: the pitifull murder of his innocent nephewes: his
tyranous vsurpation: with the whole course of his detested
life, and most deserued death. As it hath beene lately acted
by the Kings Maiesties seruants. Written by William Shake-speare.
London: printed by Iohn Norton, 1634. |
- Two examples of the 1634 8th quarto of Richard III from
the British Library, the first originally belonging to
Halliwell-Phillipps, the second to Garrick:
1
2.
- The
1634 8th quarto of Richard III from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library.
This volume belonged to Halliwell-Phillipps before its acquisition
by the library.
- The
1634
8th quarto of Richard III
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
British Library. This volume was owned by Garrick who
bequeathed it to the library.
- The
1634
8th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. The volume was given to the
library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1634
8th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. This volume had belonged to the
great editor George Steevens, and was part of the Bute collection
which was purchased by the library in 1956.
- The
1634
8th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. This volume was
purchased by the Bodleian in 1830.
- The
1634
8th quarto of Richard III from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. "This quarto of Richard III
may have been previously owned by Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), who
collated this 1634 edition with the first quarto of 1597. Theobald
was an eighteenth-century Shakespeare editor, literary critic, and
poet; in 1726 he wrote Shakespeare Restored, in which he criticized
Alexander Pope’s edition of Shakespeare." (Octavo
statement of provenance). Note: the entry is mislabeled
with the date "1624" at the Octavo site, and should be "1634."
There was no 1624 quarto of Richard III.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earle
Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earle
Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earle
Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earle
Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earle
Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of the Earle
Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by
the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, With the Landing of the Earl of
Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Field, in the Third
Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Richard III : With the Landing of the Earl of
Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Field, in the
Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
Electronic facsimile editions of 17th century revisions of the
play:
Romeo and Juliet (1595)
HTML Editions
 The
first quarto of Romeo and Juliet, commonly thought to
be a "bad," pirated version, was printed in 1597 with the
following title page:
An excellent conceited
tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often
(with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the Right
Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his seruants.
London: printed by Iohn Danter [and Edward Allde], 1597.
Q1 is unique in having been printed during the brief
period when Shakespeare's company was known as Lord
Hunsdon's Men, and not the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The
reference to "Hunsdon's
men" on the title page of the first quarto--named the Lord
Chamberlain's Men" on the title page of Q2--need only refer
to the company as it was known at the time of printing, not
initial composition. Shakespeare's company was known
as Lord Hunsdon's Men only from July 1596, at the death of
Henry Carey, First Baron Hunsdon and March 17, 1597 when his
son George, who had lent his name to the company during the
brief Chamberlaincy of William Brooke, Lord Cobham, a man
not well disposed toward the actors, became Lord
Chamberlain.
The second quarto appeared in 1599, with the following
title page:
The most excellent and
lamentable tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet. Newly
corrected, augmented, and amended: as it hath bene
sundry times publiquely acted, by the Right Honourable
the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants.
London: printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby,
and are to be sold at his shop neare the Exchange, 1599.
Note the "Newly corrected, augmented and amended," which
appears as a palliative to a previously surreptitiously
printed version. Q2 contains 700 more lines than does
Q1. Q2 must have been based on Shakespeare's "foul
papers," but collates passages from Q1. Prompt text
appears in the stage direction at 4.5.102 "Enter Will Kemp."
rather than Q1's "Enter Peter" showing the influence of a
copy belonging to Shakespeare's company, if not his own
copy.
The play was popular, and a third quarto was printed in
1609:
The most excellent and
lamentable tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath
beene sundrie times publiquely acted, by the Kings
Maiesties seruants at the Globe. Newly corrected,
augmented, and amended:
London: printed [by Iohn Windet] for Iohn Smethwick, and
are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes
Church-yard, in Fleetestreete vnder the Dyall, 1609.
This is the copy used for the First Folio text.
A fourth appeared in 1622 and a fifth appeared in 1637.
Date of composition is not certain, but was probably 1595.
|
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
- The
1597 1st quarto of
Romeo and Juliet from the British
Library.
- The
1597
1st quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to Garrick.
- The
1597 1st quarto of Romeo and Juliet from Internet
Shakespeare Editions from the Garrick volume held by the British
Library.
- The
1597 1st quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 'This rare first quarto
of Romeo and Juliet was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1821. It
was previously owned by Edmund Malone..." (Octavo statement of
provenance. The link is incorrectly dated at the Octavo Rare
Book Room, which gives 1596 rather than the correct 1597).
- The
1599 2nd quarto of
Romeo and Juliet from the British
Library.
- The
1599
2nd quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to George III.
- The
1599 2nd quarto of Romeo and Juliet from Internet
Shakespeare Editions from the volume held by the British Library.
- The
1599
2nd quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library.
- The
1599
2nd quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "This quarto was given to the
University of Edinburgh in 1627 by James Drummond (1585–1649) of
Hawthornden, a former student at the university, as well as a poet
and man of letters." (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1599 2nd quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
"This second quarto of Romeo and Juliet , now at the Bodleian
Library, is the third of six other Shakespeare quartos inlaid in
Edmund Malone’s Volume VI, which is bound in nineteenthcentury tree
calf with gold-stamped ornamental borders and “EM” in the center of
both covers..." (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1609 3rd quarto of
Romeo and Juliet from the British
Library.
- The
1609
3rd quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1609
3rd quarto from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume
held by The Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford. "This quarto, before its acquisition by the Bodleian
Library was in the library of Richard Heber, who purchased it in
April 1804 at Lord Thorlo’s sale at Christies. Richard Heber
(1773–1833), British bibliophile, started amassing a classical
collection as an undergraduate at Oxford, but broadened his
collection to include rare editions of early English drama and
literature. He purchased both single volumes and entire libraries
and did not limit himself to a single copy of any particular book.
As a result, he owned at least 150,000 volumes, and his collection
filled eight houses. He was member of Parliament for Oxford
University (1821–26) and a founder of the Athenaeum Club in London."
(Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1622 4th quarto of
Romeo and Juliet from the British
Library.
- The
1622
4th quarto of Romeo and Juliet (incorrectly dated as
"1752" at the Rare Book Room--which is simply Richard Warners mark
of ownership rather than date of publication) from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to Garrick.
- The
1622
4th quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. The volume was given to the
library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1622
4th quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. "Purchased by the
Bodleian Library in 1836, this quarto of Romeo and Juliet was
previously owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869). Dyce was born in
Edinburgh and studied at Oxford, where he was the editor of a
dictionary on the language of Shakespeare. In 1825 began his
lifelong pursuit of literary scholarship. Dyce was a distinguished
editor of Jacobean and Elizabethan dramatists and poets including
Christopher Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Alexander Pope. He
edited a nine-volume work of Shakespeare (rev. ed. 1864–69). He
bequeathed his extensive library to the South Kensington Museums,
and it is now in the Victoria and Albert." (Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1637 5th quarto of
Romeo and Juliet from the British
Library.
- The
1637
5th quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to David Garrick.
- The
1637
5th quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. The volume had previously
belonged to the great editor George Steevens.
- The
1637
5th quarto of Romeo and Juliet from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. The volume was given to the
library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1637 5th quarto of The most excellent and
lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Juliet : as it hath been sundry
times publikely acted by the Kings Majesties servants at the Globe;
from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, in the Second Folio of
1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, in the Third
Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,
in the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Electronic facsimiles of 18th Century revisions of the play:
Other Productions
- A free, downloadable audio version of
Romeo and Juliet from LibreVox, in 2 mp3 bitrates (64
and 128 kbps) and ogg vorbis format also. the entire reading
can be downloaded in an 88MB zip file.
The Taming of the Shrew*
HTML Editions
 |
|
Illustration from
Shrew, Charles Knight's 1851 edition of the
complete works,
vol. I, p. 376 |
There is no general agreement on the date of
Shakespeare's first four earliest comedies: The Two
Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's
Labour's Lost, and The Comedy of Errors.
The problem is complicated in the case of Shrew by the
existence of an anonymous (perhaps) early play titled The
Taming of A Shrew, first published in 1594 and reprinted in
1596 and 1607. A Shrew may be an independent
play that served as source for The Shrew, or it may
be an earlier version of the same play or a corrupt version
of the play we know as The Shrew printed "maim'd".
If so, it is maimed indeed, diverging more from the play we
know more than any other "bad" quarto. Shrew is not
mentioned by Francis Meres in his list of Shakespeare's
plays in Palladis Tamia (1598), unless his reference
to Love's Labour's Won is the same play. The
only authoritative text for the play, therefore, is that of
the 1623 Folio. The publisher and printer (Blount and
Jaggard) of the First Folio must have regarded A Shrew and
The Shrew as the same play, because they did not bother to
register it along with Shakespeare's other unpublished
plays. The play must be one of Shakespeare's first,
and if A Shrew is a corrupt version of The Shrew,
it could even have been in existence towards the end of the
1580s. Q1 is based on F1 and not from an independent
textual source.
For texts of A Shrew, see:
-
A pleasant conceited
history, called The taming of a shrew : as it was sundry times acted by
the right honorable the Earl of Pembroke his servants, from
the Oxford Text Archive. Text is downloadable and freely available
for non-commercial purposes.
-
The Taming of A Shrew, ed. Thomas Amyot, in Amyot, Thomas,
et al. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays, Vol. IV, [London]: Printed
for the Shakespeare Society, 1853, from Google Book Search, full view
and PDF.
|
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
- Two examples of the 1631 1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the British Library, the first originally belonging to George
III, the second to Garrick:
1
2.
- The
1631
1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British
Library. The volume had previously belonged to George III.
- The
1631
1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British
Library. The volume had previously belonged to David Garrick.
- The
1631
1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. This
volume was given to the library by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1631
1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. This
volume had been part of the Bute collection and was acquired by the
library in 1956.
- The
1631
1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
"Now in the Bodleian Library, this quarto was formerly owned by the
Reverend Richard Farmer (1735–1797). Farmer was the thirteenth
master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, University Librarian, and
friend to some of the great men of the eighteenth century including
Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, James Boswell, and Shakespeare
scholars Isaac Reed and George Steevens. Farmer was a scholar of
Shakespeare in his own right having written An Essay on the Learning
of Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1767), which was reprinted several times.
This quarto was sold after Farmer’s death in a May 1798 sale and
purchased by the Bodleian in 1832." (Octavo
statement of provenance).
- The
1631 1st quarto of a wittie and pleasant comedie
called the taming of the shrew : as it was acted by His Maiesties
seruants at the Blacke Friers and the Globe, In Horace
Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of
Pennsylvania.
- The
1631
1st quarto of The Taming of the Shrew
from the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Provenance is unknown.
-
The Taming of the Shrew
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664
(Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Taming of the Shrew, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimiles of 18th Century revisions of the play:
The Tempest*
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
The Tempest (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early folios.
-
The
Tempest,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tempest, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount) from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial (Shakespeare)
Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI),
University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tempest, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus
Digital Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis
University Library.
-
The Tempest, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from from from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tempest, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tempest, in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and
Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Tempest, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664
(Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Tempest, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Electronic facsimile editions of 17th century revisions of the
play:
Timon of Athens*
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Timon of Athens (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early folios.
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The Life of Tymon of Athens
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The Life of Tymon of Athens
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The Life of Tymon of Athens
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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The Life of Tymon of Athens
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Life of Tymon of Athens
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
The Life of Tymon of Athens,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes
and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Life of Tymon of Athens, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Life of Timon of Athens, in the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Titus Andronicus
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Titus Andronicus (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
 In 1594 printer John Danter entered The Most
Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus in the
Stationers' Register. Until 1904 the existence of this
Q1 edition was unknown. Q2, a reprint with minor
changes, was published in 1600, and Q3 in 1611, which served
as the basis for the F1 text. There is one scene in
the folio version, however, that does not exist in any of
the quarto versions, act 3 scene 2. It must have been
copied from a now lost manuscript.
The play is horrible,
and for that reason above all others early scholars did not
want to believe it was authored by Shakespeare, whose mythic
"gentleness" was a pillar of 18th century bardolatry.
Even such disciplined scholars as Theobald and Dr. Johnson
fell prey to this belief. For some time it was
fashionable to regard it as a collaboration between
Shakespeare and Peele, or Shakespeare and Kyd, but reasons
for regarding it as such are cloudy, at best. If there
is a dominant view today, it is that the play is the work
of a single author, Shakespeare. |
- The exceedingly rare (there is only one copy known to exist)
1594
1st quarto of Titus Andronicus from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The volume is mis-dated as "1611" at the Octavo site, and should be
"1594". The existence of a 1594 1st quarto was unknown until
1904 when this copy was discovered in Sweden.
- The
1600
2nd quarto of Titus Andronicus from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
University of Edinburgh Library. "This quarto was given to the
University of Edinburgh in 1627 by James Drummond (1585–1649) of
Hawthornden, a former student at the university, as well as a poet
and man of letters." (Octavo statement of provenance).
- The
1611 3rd quarto of Titus Andronicus from a volume
held by the British Library. The volume had previously
belonged to George III.
- The
1611 3rd quarto of Titus Andronicus from a volume
held by the British Library. The volume had previously
belonged to David Garrick.
- The
1611
3rd quarto of Titus Andronicus from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland. This volume was previously owned
by the great editor, George Steevens.
- The
1611 3rd quarto of of Titus Andronicus from
the Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
"Now at the Bodleian Library, this 1611 third quarto of Titus
Andronicu is the last of six other Shakespeare quartos inlaid in
Edmund Malone’s Volume VI..." (Octavo statement of provenance).
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
(Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text
& Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard and
Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by
the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the Third Folio of 1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
-
The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus,
in the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, in the
Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
Troilus and Cressida
HTML Editions
-
An original spelling transcription of
Troilus and Cressida (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
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An original spelling transcription of the 1609 quarto of
The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and folios.
- The
1609 quarto (a) of Troilus and Cressida from a volume
held by the British Library. The volume had previously
belonged to George III.
- The
1609
quarto (a) of Troilus and Cressida from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. This volume
had belonged to the editor Steevens before George III.
- The
1609 quarto (b) of Troilus and Cressida from a volume
held by the British Library. The volume had previously
belonged to Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1609
quarto (b) of Troilus and Cressida from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. "This
copy differs from the previous 1609 printing of Troilus and
Cressida, known as Quarto a, only in the title page and the addition
of a single leaf, entitled 'A neuer writer, to an euer | reader.
Newes.'" The volume had once belonged to Halliwell-Phillipps.
- The
1609 quarto (b) of Troilus and Cressida from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The volume had
belonged to Malone.
- The
1609
quarto (b) of Troilus and Cressida from the
Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the
National Library of Scotland.
-
The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida,
in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet
Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a volume held by
the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, in the Third Folio
of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of
New South Wales.
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The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, in the Fourth Folio
of 1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Twelfth Night*
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from early folios.
-
Twelfe Night, Or what you will, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
Twelfe Night, Or what you will, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
Twelfe Night, Or what you will, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
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Twelfe Night, Or what you will, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
Twelfe Night, Or what you will, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
Twelfe Night, Or what you will, in the Second Folio of
1632 (Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions
(University of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
Twelfe-Night, Or what you will, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
Twelf-Night, Or what you will, in the Fourth Folio of
1685 (Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona*
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623 First Folio Edition) from
the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Electronic facsimile editions from early
folios.
-
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the Second Folio of 1632
(Cotes and Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the Third Folio of
1663-1664 (Chetwinde) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University
of Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in the Fourth Folio of 1685
(Herringman) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare and Fletcher)
| "indeed it has little
resemblance of Fletcher, and more of our Author than some of
those which have been received as genuine"
--Alexander Pope on The Two
Noble Kinsmen, from his
Preface to his
Works of 1725. |
HTML Editions
Electronic facsimile editions from early quartos and
folios.
-
Three examples of the first quarto of 1634 of Two
Noble Kinsmen, from the British Library, the first belonging
originally to Garrick, the second of unknown provenance, and the
third belonging originally to Wise:
1
2
3.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to Garrick.
-
The
1634 1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from Internet
Shakespeare Editions from the Garrick copy held by the British
Library.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
provenance of the volume is unknown.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by the British Library. The
volume had previously belonged to Wise.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare Book
Room (Octavo) from a volume held by The
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The provenance of this
volume is unknown.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. This volume was
once owned by Malone.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. This volume had
previously been owned by Malone.
-
The
1634
1st quarto of Two Noble Kinsmen from the Rare
Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. This volume had
previously been owned by Malone. "This quarto was donated to
the Bodleian Library in 1821. It was previously owned by Edmund
Malone who bequeathed it, among many other important books, to his
older brother Richard, Lord Sunderlin. Edmund Malone (1741–1812),
after whom the Malone Society was named in 1909, was a renowned
Shakespeare scholar who began his literary work in London in 1777.
He was a friend to both Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and he
assisted Boswell in revising his biography of Johnson. Malone, the
only collector of Shakespeare quartos to acquire a complete set,
published an 11-volume edition of Shakespeare’s works in 1790 and
unmasked the Shakespeare manuscript forgeries of William Henry
Ireland. Malone left his uncompleted work on Shakespeare to James
Boswell the younger, who had it published in a 21-volume octavo
edition in 1821 (Third Variorum Edition). Although not particularly
successful as a textual editor of Shakespeare, Malone is especially
noted for his work on Elizabethan theater. Malone traces the
provenance of the book to Charles I (1600–1649), who reigned as King
of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 until his death. During
the last several years of his reign, Charles was embroiled in
conflict with parliamentarians who demanded constitutional monarchy
and Puritans who rebelled against the king’s policies regarding
religion. Refusing to yield to the demands of those who bested him
in the civil war, Charles was tried for treason and executed 30
January 1649." (Octavo
statement of provenance).
-
Facsimile edition (The Tudor Facsimile
Texts) of the 1634 1st quarto of
The two noble kinsmen (1910) from the Internet Archive.
The
Winter's Tale*
HTML Editions
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An original spelling transcription of
A Winter's Tale (1623 First Folio Edition) from the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
-
John Marwick's
production
web site with the text and lots of links to other Winter's
Tale sites.
Electronic facsimile editions from early
folios.
-
The Winters Tale, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount) from The Rare Book Room (Octavo) from a volume held by
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
-
The Winters Tale, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from a volume held by the Horace Howard Furness
Memorial (Shakespeare) Library from the Schoenberg Center for
Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania.
-
The Winters Tale, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from the Perseus Garner, part of the Perseus Digital
Library, Tufts University, from a volume held by Brandeis University
Library.
-
The Winters Tale, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by Brandeis University Library.
-
The Winters Tale, in the First Folio of 1623 (Jaggard
and Blount), from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of
Victoria) from a volume held by the State Library of New South
Wales.
-
The Winters Tale, in the Second Folio of 1632 (Cotes and
Allot) from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
from a volume held by the State Library of New
South Wales.
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The Winters Tale, in the Third Folio of 1663-1664 (Chetwinde)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
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The Winters Tale, in the Fourth Folio of 1685 (Herringman)
from Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria) from a
volume held by the State Library of New South Wales.
|
The standard
HTML Complete Works sites are:
1709 -
The Nicholas Rowe 1709 Edition of the Works of Shakespeare
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:
The works of
Shakespear in eight volumes. The genuine text
(collated with all the former editions, and then
corrected and emended) is here settled ; being
restored from the blunders of the first editors and
the interpolations of the two last: with a comment
and notes, critical and explanatory. By Mr. Pope and
Mr. Warburton, London, J. & P. Napton, 1747;
from Google Book Search, full text and PDF. The
"Blunders of the first Editors" refers collectively
to the editors of the quarto and folio editions, and
Rowe, who was safely dead by this time. "The
last two" refer to the editions of Theobald (1733)
and Hanmer (1743-44). Warburton had criticized
Pope's edition, but having become an ally of Pope's
by the time of this edition, does not mention it
unfavorably. His former ally, now enemy,
Theobald, however, comes in for notable criticism.
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.
The plays of William
Shakspeare. In fifteen volumes. With
the corrections and illustrations of
various commentators. To which are
added notes by Samuel Johnson and
George Steevens. The Fourth Edition.
Revised and Augmented, (with a
Glossarial Index) by the Editor of
Dodsley's Old Plays [Isaac
Reed], London, T. Longman, etc.,
1793.
"The Family Shakespeare" was first printed in four-volumes in 1807
(which edition covered 24 plays and was written/edited by Thomas Bowdler's
sister Henrietta but attributed to Thomas until the twentieth century).
The Family Shakespeare was very popular and went through many printings in the nineteenth century.
The first edition edited directly by Thomas Bowdler was the 1818
edition, which included all the then canonical plays except Pericles,
and none of the non-dramatic poetry. It was
based on the Steevens text. The fourth edition appeared in 1825
(see below) and there were subsequent editions in 1831, 1853 and 1861,
not counting reprints of previous editions. It is famous
as an "expurgated" Shakespeare, "in which nothing is added to the
original; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with
propriety be read in a family." The word "bowderlize" was invented
in 1836 carrying a pejorative sense, meaning to edit out offensive
content prudishly. I have been able to locate and link the following
full-view second editions of The Family Shakespeare, 1818, from Google
Book Search:
James
Boswell the younger (son of Johnson's biographer)
inherited the literary remains of Edmond Malone, and
dutifully edited them into what became known as the
"third variorum" edition, published in 21 volumes in
1821. It marked the culmination of 18th century
Shakespeare scholarship, and the end of a tradition
in variorum editions. The following edition, of
Samuel Weller Singer in 1826, revolted against
the imposing scholarly trappings associated with the
variorum editions by minimizing notes and doing away
with most comment and, indeed, mostly all scholarly
comment. Numerous editions of Shakespeare followed
in the nineteenth century, based upon the text here
reflected, of the work of the great editors starting
with Rowe, proceeding through Theobald to Dr.
Johnson, encompassing Steevens, and running through
Malone-Boswell, but without reproducing the minute
notes and other critical apparatus of this great
edition. Therefore, the "third variorum" edited by
Boswell became the scholarly standard of the 19th
century, and held dominance, in spite of editions by
Charles Knight, Alexander Dyce and John Payne
Collier (prior to his exposure as a forger), until
the Cambridge edition of 1863-1866 superseded it. I
present below links to the first three volumes of
Boswell's edition (note that he insisted on Malone's
name appearing on the title page, and not his own).
The first three volumes contain strictly
prolegomena, with the plays beginning in the fourth
volume. This edition stands as a monument to
Malone, to 18th century scholarship in general, and
to the modesty and dutiful diligence of James
Boswell the younger in particular. Reading the
prolegomena herein contained is a full education in
the Shakespeare scholarship as it had developed to
1821, and a generally good foundation to all modern
scholarship.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, With Notes, original
and selected, by Samuel Weller Singer, F.S.A., and a Life of the
Poet, by Charles Symmons, D.D. Chiswick : Charles
Whittingham, College House. 1826.
The
Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere
originally appeared in 56 parts from 1838 to 1843 (
The
Plays and Poems of Shakspeare, with a Life,
Glossarial Notes, and One Hundred and Seventy
Illustrations from the Plates in Boydell's Edition,
Edited by A. J. Valpy, M. A. Late Fellow of Pemb.
Coll., Oxford , in Fifteen Volumes.
The Sonnets
Venus and Adonis
The Passionate Pilgrim