The English of Shakespeare illustrated in A Philological Commentary on his Julius Cæsar. By George L. Craik, Professor of History and of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast. Author of ‘Outlines of the History of the English Language.’
Publisher: Chapman and Hall Printed by John Edward Taylor
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
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;">12mo. pp. xxxviii, 352.</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;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This work by the Scottish critic and friend of Charles Knight and Douglas Jerrold, George Lillie Craik (1798-1855), includes a discussion of Collier and the Perkins Folio. Craik opposed Collier’s copyright claims of the Shakespeare emendations of the Old Corrector. See A. and J. Freeman, John Payne Collier, Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 599-600, 738.</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/catalog/bib_4117340" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>