The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...
Subtitle: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...
Contributors: Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848, ed.; Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, ed.; Symmons, Charles, 1749-1826.; Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883.
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and company
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Notes: Vol. 1 has added t.-p., engraved: Shakspeare's complete works.  Boston edition. 1851.
Edited by Oliver W. B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare",by Collier.  cf. "Advertisement", Pref. to the 1836 ed. and J. Sherzer, American editions of Shakespeare (Modern lang. assoc. Publ., v. 22, p. 657-660)
Table of contents: title: I. Life. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare [by] J. P. Collier.  Shakspeare's will.  Preface of the players [1623]  Tempest.  Two gentlemen of Verona.  Merry wives of Windsor.  Twelfth night.  Measure for measure.  Much ado about nothing.; title: II. Midsummer-night's dream.  Love's labor's lost.  Merchant of Venice.  As you like it.  All's well that ends well.  Taming of the shrew.; title: III. Winter's tale.  Comedy of errors.  Macbeth.  King John.  Richard II.  Henry IV, pt. 1.; title: IV. Henry IV, pt. 2.  Henry V.  Henry VI, pts. 1-3.; title: V. Richard III.  Henry VIII.  Troilus and Cressida.  Timon of Athens. Coriolanus.; title: VI. Julius Caesar.  Antony and Cleopatra.  Cymbeline.  Titus Andronicus.  Pericles.; title: VII. King Lear.  Romeo and Juliet.  Hamlet.  Othello.; title: VIII. The poetical works of William Shakspeare; with notes illustrative and explanatory; together with a supplementary notice to the Roman plays.