Shakespeare's Fourth folio, 1685 [Copy 02]
Creators: name: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Tempest (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Othello (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: King Henry IV (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Measure for measure (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Love's labour's lost (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: All's well that ends well (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Timon of Athens (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Cymbeline (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Coriolanus (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: King Richard III (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: King Richard II (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Yorkshire tragedy
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subject: King Lear (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Two gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: King John (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Thomas, Lord Cromwell (Drama)
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subject: Henry V (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Comedy of errors (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: As you like it (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Locrine
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subject: Winter's tale (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Merry wives of Windsor (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: London prodigal
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subject: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Macbeth (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Puritan (Middleton, Thomas)
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subject: Sir John Oldcastle
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subject: Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Taming of the shrew (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: King Henry VIII (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Pericles (Shakespeare, William)
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subject: Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare, William)
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description: The Fourth Folio, published in 1685, included the same 43 plays in the same sequence as the Third – and indeed exactly echoed its claim on the title page to have “added” 7 plays “Never before Published in Folio.” These were in fact also reprinted from the Third Folio. As in the Second and Third Folios, the Fourth once more made abundant changes to the text of Shakespeare’s Third Folio, on which it based its copy. The Fourth Folio would be used as the basis of the first modern edition, Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 Works The Fourth Folio in turn served as the base for the series of eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare's plays. Nicholas Rowe used the Fourth Folio text as the foundation of his 1709 edition, and subsequent editors — Pope, Theobald, etc. — both adapted and reacted to Rowe's text in their own editions. -- [from the auction clippings]