The plays and poems of William Shakespeare
Subtitle: printed from the text of J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. with the life and portrait of the poet. Complete in seven volumes. Vol. I
Publisher: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun.
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Description: <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;">First of 7 vols. in 16mo. pp. [6], 508. Original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by A.H. Payne. Part of the ‘Collection of British authors’ (v. XL-XLVI).</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. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. </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;">Collier’s text, without notes. The brief ‘Life’ is not based on that written by Collier. 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, p. 1163.</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/alma991039185359707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>