Shakesperiana editio in folio prima

Shakesperiana editio in folio prima Londinii anno 1623 divulgata est, titulo Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories & tragedies, published according to the true originall copies, imprimatoribus Isaaco Jaggard et Eduardo Blount. Divulgare curaverunt Ioannes Heminges et Henricus Condell. Fabularum Shakesperianarum duodeviginti textús in hoc libro primum editi sunt, scilicet:
 The Tempest
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
 Measure for Measure
 The Comedy of Errors
 As You Like It
 The Taming of the Shrew
 All's Well That Ends Well
 Twelfth Night
 The Winter's Tale
 King John
 Henry VI part I
 Henry VIII
 Coriolanus
 Timon of Athens
 Julius Caesar
 Macbeth
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Cymbeline
Fabularum duodeviginti textús, iam antea editi, in hac editione retractati sunt:
 The Merry Wives of Windsor
 Much Ado About Nothing
 Love's Labour's Lost
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 The Merchant of Venice
 Richard II
 Henry IV part I
 Henry IV part II
 Henry V
 Henry VI part II
 Henry VI part III
 Richard III
 Troilus and Cressida
 Titus Andronicus
 Romeo and Juliet
 Hamlet
 King Lear
 Othello
Ex hac editione omittuntur ludi duo quos Shakesperius partim tantum scripsit, Pericles, Prince of Tyre et The Two Noble Kinsmen.

 Beniamini Jonson epigramma 
Inter praefationes reperitur epigramma a Beniamino Jonson, aemuli et amici, ad Shakesperii honorem compositum, titulo To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us. Jonson in his versibus Shakesperii tragoedi cum aliis scriptoribus comparationem elaborat:
... My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye
A little further to make thee a roome:
Thou art a moniment without a tombe
And art alive still while thy booke doth live
And we have wits to read and praise to give.
That I not mixe thee so my braine excuses --
I meane with great but disproportion'd Muses --
For if I thought my judgement were of yeeres
I should commit thee surely with thy peeres,
And tell how farre thou didst our Lily out-shine,
Or sporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line.
And though thou hadst small Latine and lesse Greeke,
From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke
For names; but call forth thund'ring Eschilus,
Euripides, and Sophocles to us,
Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,
To life againe, to heare thy buskin tread
And shake a stage ...
Ultimis verbis hic citatis eundem ludum Jonson repetit, verbis shake a stage, quo Robertus Greene usus est in opere suo Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit anno 1592 divulgato. Ibi Shakesperium novum scriptorem vituperat, An upstart crow beautified with our feathers; ibi nomine gentilicio poëtae (quod alii saepe hyphene dividebant, Shake-speare) alludit et in Shake-scene mutat (scil. "qui scaenam quassat").

 Nexus externi 

 Textus apud Universitatem Victoriae
 Textus apud gutenberg.org
 De editione in folio prima apud Bibliothecam Britannicam
 Jonathan Bate, "The Case for the Folio"

 Bibliographia 
 W. W. Greg, The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Londinii: Oxford University Press, 1955
 Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio. Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1963
 Alfred W. Pollard, The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text. Londinii: Oxford University Press, 1923
 Alice Walker, Textual Problems of the First Folio. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
 Edwin Eliott Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare.'' Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1932

Categoria:Scripta 1623
Categoria:Angliae scripta
Categoria:Gulielmus Shakesperius