Recent
editions
of Shakspeare.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
The school of Shakespeare (vol.
III of Notes and Various
Readings, 1779-80).
Fairy tales, legends, and romances, illustrating Shakespeare and other early
English writers. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 1875.
Holinshed. Shakspere's Holinshed, the chronicle and the historical plays
compared. Ed. Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1896. New ed, 1907.
Plutarch. Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. Skeat, W. W. 1875.
Four chapters of North’s Plutarch. Ed. Leo, F. A. 1878.
-Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. Brooke, C. F. T. 2 vols. (Shakespeare
Classics. ) 1909.
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445
Quellen des Shakespeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen. Edd. Echter-
mayer, T. , Henschel, L. und Simrock, K. 3 parts. Berlin, 1831. 2nd ed.
2 parts. Bonn, 1870.
Rushton, W. L. Shakespeare and the Arte of English Poesie. Liverpool,
1909. (Shakespeare's use of Puttenham. ]
Shakespeare's jest book, ed. Singer, S. W. 3 parts. 1814–16.
Shakespeare jest-books, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 3 vols. 1864.
Shakespeare's library: a collection of the romances, novels, poems, and
histories used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas. Ed.
Collier, J. P. 2 vols. 1843. New ed. , ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 6 vols.
1875.
Six old plays (see General Bibliography).
See, also, Halliwell-Phillipps's ed. of Works, 1853–65, which contains all
the original novels and tales on which the plays are founded. ' The Shake-
speare Classics, ed. Gollancz, I. , 1907-9, a series of reprints of originals
and sources used by Shakespeare, are noted in sec. 3, under the separate
plays to which the volumes refer.
7. TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND CONTROVERSY.
In addition to the books here noted, the introductions and critical apparatus
of the principal collective editions of the works (see sec. 2 (6)) should be con-
sulted.
(a) Eighteenth Century.
A succinct account of eighteenth-century textual criticism of Shakespeare
will be found in the preface to The Cambridge Shakespeare.
Walder, E. Shakespearean criticism, textual and literary, from
Dryden to the end of the 18th century. Bradford, 1895.
See, also, Smith, D. N. , sec. 8 (a).
Capell, E. Notes and various readings to Shakespeare (1775, part 1 only).
Another ed. 3 vols. (1779-83. )
Edwards, T. A supplement to Mr Warburton's edition of Shakespear.
Being the canons of criticism and glossary collected from the notes in
that celebrated work. 1748. Re-issued under the title of Canons of
Criticism. 7th ed. , with additions. 1765.
Grey, Z. A word or two of advice to W. Warburton. 1746.
A free and familiar letter to W. Warburton. 1750.
Critical, historical, and explanatory notes on Shakespeare with emenda-
tions of the text and metre. 2 vols. 1754.
Remarks upon [Warburton's] edition of Shakespeare. 1755.
Holt, J. An attempt to rescue that aunciente English poet, and playwrighte,
Maister Williaume Shakespere, from the maney errours, faulsely charged
on him, by certaine new-fangled wittes; and to let him speak for himself.
1749.
Kenrick, W. A review of Doctor Johnson's new edition of Shakespeare:
in which the ignorance, or inattention, of that editor is exposed.
1765.
A defence of Mr Kenrick's Review. 1766.
Malone, E. An attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed
to Shakespeare were written. In vol. 1 of Shakespeare's Works. 1778.
A letter to Richard Farmer relative to the edition of Shakspeare
published in 1790. 1792.
Mason, J. M. Comments on the last edition [Steevens] of Shakespeare's
plays. 1785.
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446
Bibliography
Nichols, P. The castrated letter of Sir Thomas Hanmer, in the sixth volume
of Biographia Britannica [relative to the Hanmer-Warburton contro-
versy]. 1763.
Ritson, J. Cursory criticisms on the edition of Shakspeare published by
Edmond Malone. 1792.
Remarks, critical and illustrative, on the text and notes of the last
edition (Johnson and Stevens, 1778] of Shakspeare. 1783.
The quip modest; a few words by way of supplement to Remarks . . .
occasioned by the republication of that edition. 1788.
Theobald, L. Shakespeare restored: or, a specimen of the many errors (in
Pope's edition). Designed not only to correct the said edition, but to
restore the true reading of Shakespeare in all the editions ever yet
publish'd. 1726. 2nd ed. 1740.
Collins, J. C. The Porson of Shakesperean critics (Theobald). In
Essays and Studies. 1895.
Tyrwhitt, T. Observations and conjectures upon some passages of Shake-
speare. Oxford, 1766.
Upton, J. Critical observations on Shakespeare. 1746. 2nd ed. , with
preface relating chiefly to Warburton's ed. 1748.
(6) 1800-1850.
Badham, C. Criticism applied to Shakspere. 1846.
Collier, J. P. Reasons for a new edition of Shakespeare's works. 1841.
Dyce, A. Remarks on Mr Colliers and Mr Knight's editions. 1844.
Mason, J. M. Comments on the several editions of Shakespeare's plays.
Dublin, 1807.
Nichols, J. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century.
1817. [Vol. II, pp. 189-647 contains correspondence of Theobald, Thirlby,
and Warburton on Shakespeare. ]
Pye, H. J. Comments on the commentators on Shakespear. 1807.
Seymour, E. H. Remarks, critical, conjectural, and explanatory, upon the
plays of Shakspeare, resulting from a collation of the early copies, with
that of Johnson and Steevens, edited by Isaac Reed. 2 vols. 1805.
Spalding, W.
Recent editions of Shakspeare. Edinburgh Review, vol. LXXXI,
1845.
Weston, S. Short notes on Shakspeare, by way of supplement to Johnson,
Steevens, Malone, and Douce. 1808.
(c) From 1850.
Badham, C. The text of Shakespeare. In Cambridge Essays. 1856.
Bulloch, J. Studies on the text of Shakespeare. 1878.
Collier controversy, the. See sec. 11.
Daniel, P. A. Notes and conjectural emendations of certain doubtful
passages in Shakespeare's plays. 1870.
Delius, N. Die Bühnenweisungen in den alten Shakespeare-Ausgaben.
Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. viii, 1872.
Elton, 0. Recent Shakespearian criticism. In Modern Studies. 1907.
Elze, K.
Noten und Conjecturen zu Shakespeare. 2 vols. Bernburg,
1876-8.
Evans, H. A. A Shakespearian controversy of the eighteenth century. Anglia,
vol. XXVIII, pp. 457-476, 1905.
Gould, G. Corrigenda and emendations of the text of Shakspere. 1881.
New ed. 1884.
Herr, J. G. Scattered notes on the text of Shakespeare. Philadelphia, 1879.
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Chapters VIII—XII
447
Ingleby, C. M. The still lion. An essay towards
the restoration of Shake-
speare's text. 1867. 3rd ed. (Shakespeare Hermeneutics). 1875.
Koppel, R. Scenen- Einteilungen und Orts-Angaben in den Shakespear'schen
Dramen. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. ix, 1873.
Textkritische Studien über Shakespeares Richard III und King Lear.
Dresden, 1877.
Leo, F. A. Die nene englische Textkritik des Shakespeare. Shakesp.
Jahrb. vol. 1, 1865.
Shakespeare notes. 1885.
Verzeichniss noch zu erklärender oder zu emendierender Text-Lesarten
in Shakespeare's Dramen. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xx, 1885.
Lounsbury, T. R. First editors of Shakespeare (Pope and Theobald). The
story of the first Shakespearian controversy and of the earliest attempt to
establish a critical text. 1906.
Morgan, J. A. Some Shakespearean commentators. Cincinnati, 1882.
Nichols, J. Notes on Shakespeare. 2 parts. 1861.
Prölss, R. Von den ältesten Drucken der Dramen Shakespeares. Leipzig,
1905.
Schmidt, A. Zur Shakespear'schen Textkritik. (Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. III,
1867.
Van Dam, B. A. P. William Shakespeare. Prosody and Text. An introduc-
tion to a better editing and a more adequate appreciation of the Eliza-
bethan poets. Leyden, 1900.
Vaughan, H. H. New readings and new renderings of Shakespeare's
tragedies. 3 vols. 1878-86.
Walker, W. S. A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare, with
remarks on his language and that of his contemporaries. Ed. Lettssom,
W. N. 3 vols. 1860.
White, R. G. Shakespeare's scholar: being historical and critical studies of
his text, characters, and commentators, with an examination of Mr Collier's
folio of 1632. New York, 1854.
:
8. GENERAL COMMENTARIES AND SUBSIDIARY WORKS.
In addition to the books here noted, the introductions to the principal
collective editions of the works (see sec. 2(6)) should be consulted. For general
commentaries and subsidiary works by continental writers (except when
translated into English), see sec. 12.
(a) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Smith, D. N. Eighteenth century essays on Shakespeare. 1903.
[With introductory essay on Shakespearean criticism in the
eighteenth century. ]
See, also, Walder, E. , sec. 7 (a).
Davies, T. Dramatic miscellanies, consisting of critical observations on
several plays of Shakspeare. . 3 vols. 1783-4.
Dennis, John. The impartial critic, or some observations (upon Rymer's
Short View). 1693.
An essay on the genius and writings of She pear. 1712.
Dryden, John. Of dramatick poesie, an essay. 1668.
[See, also, the prefaces to his editions of particular plays. ]
Eccles, A. Illustrations and variorum comments on Lear, Cymbeline, and
the Merchant of Venice. 3 vols. 1792-1805.
Farmer, R. An essay on the learning of Shakespeare. Cambridge, 1767.
4th ed. 1821.
## p. 448 (#472) ############################################
448
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Johnson on Shakespeare, essays and notes. Ed. Raleigh, W. Oxford, 1908.
Montagu, Elizabeth. An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespear.
1769. Several times reprinted.
Richardson, W. A philosophical analysis of some of Shakespeare's remark-
able characters. Glasgow, 1774. Reissued 1797.
Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters of Richard III, King Lear,
and Timon of Athens; to which is added an essay on the faults of Shake-
speare. 1784. Reissued 1797.
Rymer, Thomas. A short view of tragedy, with some reflections on
Shakespear, and other practitioners for the stage. 1693.
Shakspere-allusion book, the: a collection of allusions to Shakspere from
1591 to 1700. Re-edited by Munro, J. 2 vols. 1909. [First published
by Ingleby, C. M. , as Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse. N. Shaksp.
Soc. 1874. )
Whalley, P. An inquiry into the learning of Shakespeare. 1748.
Whately, T. Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare. 1785.
Readings, 1779-80).
Fairy tales, legends, and romances, illustrating Shakespeare and other early
English writers. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 1875.
Holinshed. Shakspere's Holinshed, the chronicle and the historical plays
compared. Ed. Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1896. New ed, 1907.
Plutarch. Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. Skeat, W. W. 1875.
Four chapters of North’s Plutarch. Ed. Leo, F. A. 1878.
-Shakespeare's Plutarch. Ed. Brooke, C. F. T. 2 vols. (Shakespeare
Classics. ) 1909.
## p. 445 (#469) ############################################
Chapters VIII—XII
-
445
Quellen des Shakespeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen. Edd. Echter-
mayer, T. , Henschel, L. und Simrock, K. 3 parts. Berlin, 1831. 2nd ed.
2 parts. Bonn, 1870.
Rushton, W. L. Shakespeare and the Arte of English Poesie. Liverpool,
1909. (Shakespeare's use of Puttenham. ]
Shakespeare's jest book, ed. Singer, S. W. 3 parts. 1814–16.
Shakespeare jest-books, ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 3 vols. 1864.
Shakespeare's library: a collection of the romances, novels, poems, and
histories used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas. Ed.
Collier, J. P. 2 vols. 1843. New ed. , ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 6 vols.
1875.
Six old plays (see General Bibliography).
See, also, Halliwell-Phillipps's ed. of Works, 1853–65, which contains all
the original novels and tales on which the plays are founded. ' The Shake-
speare Classics, ed. Gollancz, I. , 1907-9, a series of reprints of originals
and sources used by Shakespeare, are noted in sec. 3, under the separate
plays to which the volumes refer.
7. TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND CONTROVERSY.
In addition to the books here noted, the introductions and critical apparatus
of the principal collective editions of the works (see sec. 2 (6)) should be con-
sulted.
(a) Eighteenth Century.
A succinct account of eighteenth-century textual criticism of Shakespeare
will be found in the preface to The Cambridge Shakespeare.
Walder, E. Shakespearean criticism, textual and literary, from
Dryden to the end of the 18th century. Bradford, 1895.
See, also, Smith, D. N. , sec. 8 (a).
Capell, E. Notes and various readings to Shakespeare (1775, part 1 only).
Another ed. 3 vols. (1779-83. )
Edwards, T. A supplement to Mr Warburton's edition of Shakespear.
Being the canons of criticism and glossary collected from the notes in
that celebrated work. 1748. Re-issued under the title of Canons of
Criticism. 7th ed. , with additions. 1765.
Grey, Z. A word or two of advice to W. Warburton. 1746.
A free and familiar letter to W. Warburton. 1750.
Critical, historical, and explanatory notes on Shakespeare with emenda-
tions of the text and metre. 2 vols. 1754.
Remarks upon [Warburton's] edition of Shakespeare. 1755.
Holt, J. An attempt to rescue that aunciente English poet, and playwrighte,
Maister Williaume Shakespere, from the maney errours, faulsely charged
on him, by certaine new-fangled wittes; and to let him speak for himself.
1749.
Kenrick, W. A review of Doctor Johnson's new edition of Shakespeare:
in which the ignorance, or inattention, of that editor is exposed.
1765.
A defence of Mr Kenrick's Review. 1766.
Malone, E. An attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed
to Shakespeare were written. In vol. 1 of Shakespeare's Works. 1778.
A letter to Richard Farmer relative to the edition of Shakspeare
published in 1790. 1792.
Mason, J. M. Comments on the last edition [Steevens] of Shakespeare's
plays. 1785.
## p. 446 (#470) ############################################
446
Bibliography
Nichols, P. The castrated letter of Sir Thomas Hanmer, in the sixth volume
of Biographia Britannica [relative to the Hanmer-Warburton contro-
versy]. 1763.
Ritson, J. Cursory criticisms on the edition of Shakspeare published by
Edmond Malone. 1792.
Remarks, critical and illustrative, on the text and notes of the last
edition (Johnson and Stevens, 1778] of Shakspeare. 1783.
The quip modest; a few words by way of supplement to Remarks . . .
occasioned by the republication of that edition. 1788.
Theobald, L. Shakespeare restored: or, a specimen of the many errors (in
Pope's edition). Designed not only to correct the said edition, but to
restore the true reading of Shakespeare in all the editions ever yet
publish'd. 1726. 2nd ed. 1740.
Collins, J. C. The Porson of Shakesperean critics (Theobald). In
Essays and Studies. 1895.
Tyrwhitt, T. Observations and conjectures upon some passages of Shake-
speare. Oxford, 1766.
Upton, J. Critical observations on Shakespeare. 1746. 2nd ed. , with
preface relating chiefly to Warburton's ed. 1748.
(6) 1800-1850.
Badham, C. Criticism applied to Shakspere. 1846.
Collier, J. P. Reasons for a new edition of Shakespeare's works. 1841.
Dyce, A. Remarks on Mr Colliers and Mr Knight's editions. 1844.
Mason, J. M. Comments on the several editions of Shakespeare's plays.
Dublin, 1807.
Nichols, J. Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century.
1817. [Vol. II, pp. 189-647 contains correspondence of Theobald, Thirlby,
and Warburton on Shakespeare. ]
Pye, H. J. Comments on the commentators on Shakespear. 1807.
Seymour, E. H. Remarks, critical, conjectural, and explanatory, upon the
plays of Shakspeare, resulting from a collation of the early copies, with
that of Johnson and Steevens, edited by Isaac Reed. 2 vols. 1805.
Spalding, W.
Recent editions of Shakspeare. Edinburgh Review, vol. LXXXI,
1845.
Weston, S. Short notes on Shakspeare, by way of supplement to Johnson,
Steevens, Malone, and Douce. 1808.
(c) From 1850.
Badham, C. The text of Shakespeare. In Cambridge Essays. 1856.
Bulloch, J. Studies on the text of Shakespeare. 1878.
Collier controversy, the. See sec. 11.
Daniel, P. A. Notes and conjectural emendations of certain doubtful
passages in Shakespeare's plays. 1870.
Delius, N. Die Bühnenweisungen in den alten Shakespeare-Ausgaben.
Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. viii, 1872.
Elton, 0. Recent Shakespearian criticism. In Modern Studies. 1907.
Elze, K.
Noten und Conjecturen zu Shakespeare. 2 vols. Bernburg,
1876-8.
Evans, H. A. A Shakespearian controversy of the eighteenth century. Anglia,
vol. XXVIII, pp. 457-476, 1905.
Gould, G. Corrigenda and emendations of the text of Shakspere. 1881.
New ed. 1884.
Herr, J. G. Scattered notes on the text of Shakespeare. Philadelphia, 1879.
## p. 447 (#471) ############################################
Chapters VIII—XII
447
Ingleby, C. M. The still lion. An essay towards
the restoration of Shake-
speare's text. 1867. 3rd ed. (Shakespeare Hermeneutics). 1875.
Koppel, R. Scenen- Einteilungen und Orts-Angaben in den Shakespear'schen
Dramen. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. ix, 1873.
Textkritische Studien über Shakespeares Richard III und King Lear.
Dresden, 1877.
Leo, F. A. Die nene englische Textkritik des Shakespeare. Shakesp.
Jahrb. vol. 1, 1865.
Shakespeare notes. 1885.
Verzeichniss noch zu erklärender oder zu emendierender Text-Lesarten
in Shakespeare's Dramen. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xx, 1885.
Lounsbury, T. R. First editors of Shakespeare (Pope and Theobald). The
story of the first Shakespearian controversy and of the earliest attempt to
establish a critical text. 1906.
Morgan, J. A. Some Shakespearean commentators. Cincinnati, 1882.
Nichols, J. Notes on Shakespeare. 2 parts. 1861.
Prölss, R. Von den ältesten Drucken der Dramen Shakespeares. Leipzig,
1905.
Schmidt, A. Zur Shakespear'schen Textkritik. (Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. III,
1867.
Van Dam, B. A. P. William Shakespeare. Prosody and Text. An introduc-
tion to a better editing and a more adequate appreciation of the Eliza-
bethan poets. Leyden, 1900.
Vaughan, H. H. New readings and new renderings of Shakespeare's
tragedies. 3 vols. 1878-86.
Walker, W. S. A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare, with
remarks on his language and that of his contemporaries. Ed. Lettssom,
W. N. 3 vols. 1860.
White, R. G. Shakespeare's scholar: being historical and critical studies of
his text, characters, and commentators, with an examination of Mr Collier's
folio of 1632. New York, 1854.
:
8. GENERAL COMMENTARIES AND SUBSIDIARY WORKS.
In addition to the books here noted, the introductions to the principal
collective editions of the works (see sec. 2(6)) should be consulted. For general
commentaries and subsidiary works by continental writers (except when
translated into English), see sec. 12.
(a) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Smith, D. N. Eighteenth century essays on Shakespeare. 1903.
[With introductory essay on Shakespearean criticism in the
eighteenth century. ]
See, also, Walder, E. , sec. 7 (a).
Davies, T. Dramatic miscellanies, consisting of critical observations on
several plays of Shakspeare. . 3 vols. 1783-4.
Dennis, John. The impartial critic, or some observations (upon Rymer's
Short View). 1693.
An essay on the genius and writings of She pear. 1712.
Dryden, John. Of dramatick poesie, an essay. 1668.
[See, also, the prefaces to his editions of particular plays. ]
Eccles, A. Illustrations and variorum comments on Lear, Cymbeline, and
the Merchant of Venice. 3 vols. 1792-1805.
Farmer, R. An essay on the learning of Shakespeare. Cambridge, 1767.
4th ed. 1821.
## p. 448 (#472) ############################################
448
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Montagu, Elizabeth. An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespear.
1769. Several times reprinted.
Richardson, W. A philosophical analysis of some of Shakespeare's remark-
able characters. Glasgow, 1774. Reissued 1797.
Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters of Richard III, King Lear,
and Timon of Athens; to which is added an essay on the faults of Shake-
speare. 1784. Reissued 1797.
Rymer, Thomas. A short view of tragedy, with some reflections on
Shakespear, and other practitioners for the stage. 1693.
Shakspere-allusion book, the: a collection of allusions to Shakspere from
1591 to 1700. Re-edited by Munro, J. 2 vols. 1909. [First published
by Ingleby, C. M. , as Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse. N. Shaksp.
Soc. 1874. )
Whalley, P. An inquiry into the learning of Shakespeare. 1748.
Whately, T. Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare. 1785.
