Rowe's editions of William Shakespeare

Rowe was the first person to attempt a clean and fully comprehensible text of the plays; but he based it on the Fourth Folio, which is perhaps the least reliable.

• The Works of William Shakespear
  • 1709 - 6 volumes - octavo
    

    It also includes:
    conjectural emendations
    full stage directions and full lists of 'Dramatis personae'
    the first biographical sketch of the poet

    This is the first edition of Shakespeare illustrated by pictures other than portraits, also the first in octavo form. The plays have separate title-pages

    • Volume 1
      • Dedication
      • Life
      • The Tempest
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • Measure for Measure
      • Comedy of Errors
      • Much Ado about Nothing
      • Love's Labour's Lost
    • Volume 2
      • A Midsummer-Night's Dream
      • Merchant of Venice
      • As You Like It
      • Taming of the Shrew
      • All's well that ends well
      • Twelfth Night, or, What you Will
      • The Winter's Tale
    • Volume 3
      • King John
      • King Richard II.
      • Henry IV, Part I.
      • Henry IV, Part II.
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI, Part I.
      • King Henry VI, Part II.
    • Volume 4 - title page missing from the scan
      • King Henry VI, Part III
      • Richard III
      • King Henry VIII
      • Troilus and Cressida
      • Coriolanus
      • Titus Andronicus
    • Volume 5
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
      • Julius Caesar
      • Macbeth
      • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
      • King Lear
      • Othello
    • Volume 6
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Cymbeline
      • Pericles Prince of Tyre
      • London Prodigal
      • Thomas Lord Cromwell
      • Sir John Oldcastle
      • The Puritan
      • A Yorkshire tragedy Locrine
  • 1709-1710 The Works of Mr. Wiliam Shakespear
    Ed. Nicholas Rowe and Charles Gildon. 7 vols.
    In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptationas of Shakespeare.
    Chadwyck-Healey.
  • 1714 - 8 vols - 2nd edition
  • 1714 The Works of Mr. Wiliam Shakespear
    Ed. Nicholas Rowe and Charles Gildon. 9 vols.