The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions
Subtitle: With the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. [...] Vol. II
Publisher: Whittaker & Co. Gilbert and Rivington, Printers
Published: 1842
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions: With the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. In eight volumes. Vol. II.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second of 8 vols. in 8vo. ff. [2], pp. 563, [1]. Original cloth. Contains bookmark of W. F. Watson, Bookseller &amp; Stationer, Edinburgh.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Content:
Measure for measure ; The comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Many of the questioned data derive from earlier works by Collier. </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See also A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A46.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991012978499707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>