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The IBUKI Shakespeare Library
The IBUKI Shakespeare Library
Works by William Shakespeare
- Plays
- Comedies
- Histories
- Tragedies
- Romances
- Poems
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Collected Works
18th century
- 1709 - Nicholas Rowe - octavo - 6 volumes
Rowe was the first person to attempt a clean and fully comprehensible text of the plays; but he depended upon a copy of the Fourth Folio. It includes conjectural emendations, full stage directions, full lists of 'Dramatis personae', and 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.
- 1723 - Alexander Pope - quarto - 6 volumes
- 1723-25 Alexander Pope and George Sewell - 7 volumes
The Works of Shakespear
In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey.
- 1733 - Lewis Theobald - octavo - 7 volumes
Lewis Theobald, 'the first Shakespeare scholar'. He also collated the quartos, studied sources and the order of the plays
1. Dedication. Preface. Verses on Shakespeare by Milton, Davenant, and Ben Jonson. List of subscribers. The tempest. The midsummer night's dream. The two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing
2. The merchant of Venice. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. Taming the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfthnight, or, What you will
3. Comedy of errors. Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. K. Henry IV, Part I, II
4. K. Henry V. K. Henry VI, Part I-III. K. Richard III
5. K. Henry VIII. K. Lear. Macbeth. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus
6. Coriolanus. Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline
7. Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Othello. A table of editions
In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey.
1740 - Lewis Theobald - The Works of Shakespeare. Ed. Lewis Theobald. 7 vols. London, 1734 (dated 1733). 2nd ed. 1740.
- 1744 - Thomas Hanmer - quarto - 6 volumes. Hanmer relied on Theobald's text, and made guesswork corrections. reprinted in 1770
1743-44 - Thomas Hanmer - The Works of Shakespear. Ed. Sir Thomas Hanmer. 6 vols. London, 1743-44
- 1747 - William Warburton - octavo - 8 volumes. built on Pope's edition - allowed some corrections by Theobold and Hanmer (credited)
|Warburton, William (1698-1779)|
1747 Warburton and Pope - The Works of Shakespear. Ed. William Warburton and Alexander Pope. 8 vols. 1747. In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey
- 1748 - Thomas Edwards
Supplement to Warburton's Edition of Shakespeare,
in later editions called The Canons of Criticism
a satirical but spot-on analysis of Warburton's editorial emendations
Samuel Johnson said "Soon after Edwards's Canons of Criticism came
out, Johnson was dining at Tonson the Bookseller's, with Hayman the Painter
and some more company. Hayman related to Sir Joshua Reynolds, that the
conversation having turned upon Edwards's book, the gentlemen praised it
much, and Johnson allowed its merit. But when they went farther, and
appeared to put that author upon a level with Warburton, 'Nay, (said
Johnson,) he has given him some smart hits to be sure; but there is no
proportion between the two men; they must not be named together. A fly,
Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an
insect, and the other is a horse still.'
@(|Edwards, Thomas (1699-1757)|)
- 1765 - Samuel Johnson - 'The Plays of William Shakespeare' - octavo - 8 volumes. Johnson in turn relied upon Warburton; his edition is noteworthy mainly for its famous Preface.
- 1765 - Samuel Johnson - The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes, etc. 8 vols. Ed. Samuel Johnson. London, 1765.
The second of two 1765 editions with different settings of type; in this edition Woodfall is listed as the second bookseller in the imprints of volumes 1-2, and Johnson's preface is paged continuously with other prefatory matter, [i]-clv [i.e. clxxv]
Contains the plays only
Vol. 1 with a general title page.
Volumes 1-8 with dated volume title pages.
Volumes 2-8 with volume divisional-titles
reading: \"the plays of William Shakespeare\". All plays with a half-title
Engraved frontispiece lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit
Vol. 1 with the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, and Warburton
Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe
Vol. 8 with an appendix
Part of v. 2-4 printed by William Bowyer; his records show 750 copies printed;
William Strahan printed v. 7-8, and [John?] Reeves printed part of v. 4
v. 1. Tempest; Midsummer night's dream; Two gentlemen of Verona;
Measure for measure; Merchant of Venice
v. 2. As you like it; Love's labour's lost; Winter's tale; Twelfth-night;
Merry wives of Windsor
v. 3. Taming of the shrew; Comedy of errors; Much ado about nothing;
All's well that ends well; King John
v. 4. King Richard II; King Henry IV, part 1; King Henry IV, part 2;
Henry V; King Henry VI, part 1
v. 5. King Henry VI, part 2; King Henry VI, part 3; King Richard III;
King Henry VIII
v. 6. King Lear; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; Macbeth; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello
- 1768 - Edward Capell - octavo - 10 volumes
Capell spent three decades collecting and collating the quartos
the first to use
the Stationers' Register and Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia
and to explore the use of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
and Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives'
1767-68 - Capell - Mr William Shakespeare His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Ed. Edward Capell. 10 vols. London, 1767-68.
- 1773 - George Steevens - octavo, 10 volumes
Steevens used Johnson's text, but, like Capell, added new material.
Steevens revised his edition in 1778, 1780
Edmond Malone added another 2 volumes
that contained Shakespeare's non-dramatic poems and other material.
Isaac Reed revised Steevens edition again in 1785.
Steevens final 15-volume revision in 1793
- 1774 - Bell - Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays,
As they are now performed at the Theatres Royal in London.
9 vols. 1774.
In Literature Online:
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey
- 1778 Samuel Johnson and George Steevens
The Works of William Shakespeare.
Ed. Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.
Vol. 2. London, 1778.
1778 Steevens and Johnson
The Plays of William Shakspeare. 10 vols.
Ed. George Steevens and Samuel Johnson. 1778.
Plus Edmund Malone's Supplement. 2 vols. 1780.
In Literature Online:
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey
- 1787 ?? Rann - The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. Ed. Joseph Rann. 6 vols. 1787
- 1779-83 ??
Mr William Shakespeare his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. 10 vols. 1768
Plus Notes and Various Readings. 3 vols. 1779-83
In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey
- 1790 - Edmund Malone - octavo - 10 volumes
Includes the first general consideration of English Renaissance theatre using the records of the Master of the Revels and Edward Alleyn's papers at Dulwich College. He also worked on chronology. Illustrated.
- 1793 ?? Reed - The Plays of William Shakspeare. Ed. Isaac Reed. Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. London, 1793.
- 1797 ?? Robinson - Works. Ed. G.G., J. Robinson, et al. Vol. 7, 1797.
The 19th Caentury
The early 19th century saw the first Variorum editions of Shakespeare
These massive editions laid the foundation for modern textual scholarship
19th century texts were derived
Malone and Steevens the Cambridge edition (1863-6) and
its single-volume companion, the Globe edition (1864)
- Halliwell-Phillipps
- 1821 Malone - The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
Ed. Edmond Malone, rev. James Boswell
21 vols. 1821
In Literature Online:
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey.
- 1821 Boswell - The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
21 vols. (Variorum ed. of Malone's text)
Ed. James Boswell, Jr. 21 vols. 1821.
- 1921 the New Cambridge edition
all modern standard editions come from this edition
Steevens, Reed, and Malone were friends
Pope made Theobald the first hero of 'The Dunciad'
Warburton belittled Rowe's 'Account of the Life of Shakespeare'
but reprinted it in his edition, without change or improvement
Despite the friendship of Malone and Reed,
Steevens, in notes in his 1793 edition
concocted obscene interpretations of some passages and
attributed those readings to people he didn't like
1832 Boswell - The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare. Ed. James Boswell et al. London, 1832. (Sonnets in vol. 20).
1863-1866 The Cambridge Shakespeare
with variorem info, notes and sometimes interductions
vol 1
Tempest
The Gentlemen of Verona
Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Merasure
Comedy of Errors
1863 1st edition
William George Clark and John Glover
1867 2nd edition
1891 3rd edition
reprinted 1894, 1902, 1919
vol 2
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 3
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 4
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 5
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 6
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 7
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 8
Clark and William Aldis Wright
vol 9
Clark and William Aldis Wright
these became the standard for the remainder of the century
and are the IBUKI copy texts
1864 Globe Shakespeare
Clark and Wright
single-volume
The most radical edition in the twentieth century was
the Oxford Shakespeare
general editors Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor
It guessed how the texts were originally performed
resulting in controversial choices
eg multiple texts of King Lear
a text of Hamlet with the scenes
thought to be cut by Shakespeare appear in an appendix
an emphasis on the collaborative nature of several of the plays
; Quartos
;
; Greg, W. W., ed. Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles. Oxford: Oxford UP.
; Allen, Michael J. B., and Kenneth Muir, eds.
; Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto:
; A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily
; from the Henry E. Huntington Library. Berkeley: U of California P, 1981.
; The First Folio and Early Quartos. Electronic edition.
; http://etext.lib.Virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/
; 2005-09-26
; Holderness, Graham, and B. Loughrey, eds. Shakespearean Originals:
; First Editions. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
; Shakespeare in Quarto. British Library Learning.
; http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
; 2008
1838 Campbell - Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. Ed. Thomas Campbell. 1838.
1838 Knight - The Works of William Shakspere.
(Or: The Pictorial Edition of Shakspere ).
Ed. Charles Knight. 8 vols. London, 1838.
1844 Collier- The Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. John P. Collier. 8 vols. 1844. Including Notes and Emendations. 1853
In Literature Online: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Chadwyck-Healey.
1876 Collier - The Works of Shakespeare
Ed. J.P. Collier. London, 1842-43. 2nd ed. London, 1858.
3rd ed. vol. 1. London, 1876.
1852 Hazlitt - Suppl. Works. Ed. W. Hazlitt. 1852.
1865 Halliwell - The Works of William Shakespeare
d Ed. J. O. Halliwell [-Phillipps].Vol. 4. London, 1855; vol. 16. 1865.
1856 Hudson - Works. Ed. H.N. Hudson. Vol. 11, 1856.
1860 Delius -Werke. Ed. N. Delius. Vol. 7, 1860. 2nd ed. 1868.
1866 Dyce - The Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. Alexander Dyce. 6 vols. London, 1857; 8 vols. 1866.
1868 Dyce - The Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. A. Dyce. 2nd ed. Vol. 7. Leipzig, 1868.
1860 Staunton - The Plays of Shakespeare
Ed. Howard Staunton. Vol. 1. London, 1858. Vol. 3, 1860.
1860 Clarke - Works
Ed. Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke
New York: Appleton, 1860. (Edition signed only 'M.C.C.').
1864 Clarke - Works. By William Shakespeare
Ed. Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke. London: Bickers, 1864
(Edition ascribed to \"Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke\").
1863-1866
The Works of William Shakespeare
The Cambridge Shakespeare
1st Edition
Ed. W.G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright. 9 vols.
Cambridge, 1863-6.
2nd Edition - 1893
Ed. W.G. Clark, John Glover, and W. A. Wright
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1863-1866. 9 vols.
3rd Edition
Ed. W. Aldis Wright. 3rd ed. 1891-93.
MacMillian Ed. W. Aldis Wright. 9 vols 1891
Vol 4
Preface to the First Edition
note
addenda and Corrigenda
King John
Notes to King John
King Richard II
Notes to King Richard II
The First Part King Henry IV
Notes to The First Part King Henry IV
The Second Part King Henry IV
Notes to The Second Part King Henry IV
King Henry V
Notes to King Henry V
1863-1869 Clarke
The Works of William Shakespeare. 9 vols.
Ed. W.G. Clark, J. Glover and W.A. Wright. 9 vols
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1863-66
In Literature Online:
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Chadwyck-Healey.
1864 Clarke
The Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. W.G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright. (Globe Library)
London: Macmillan, 1864.
1865 Wright
Works. Ed. R.G. White. Vol. 1, 1865.
1864-1881 Hudson
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. H.N. Hudson. 20 vols. 1864-1881
1864 Keightley
The Plays of Shakespeare
Ed. Thomas Keightley. 6 vols. 1864.
1864 Keightley
Plays and Poems
Th. Keightley. 1865.
1881 Hudson
The Harvard Shakespeare
Ed. H.N. Hudson vols. 4
Boston (MA)
1883 White
Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
Ed. R.G. White. 2nd ed. Vol 1.
Boston (MA), 1883.
1888-1890
Works
Henry Irving Shakespeare
1891 Craig
Works
Ed. W.J. Craig
Oxford: Oxford UP
The Works of Williaam Shakesperare. London: Warne, n.d.
1883 Arnaldp
Dramas de Guillermo Shakspeare
Julio C[ea]sar. Como gust[ea]is.
Comedia de equivocaciones. Las alegres comadres de Windsor
Trans. Jos[ea] Arnaldo M[aa]rquez. Illust.
(Biblioteca \"Arte y Letras\"). Barcelona: E. Domenech, 1883.*
20th-century collected works
1906 Neilson - Complete Works. Ed. W.A. Neilson. 1906.
1907 Stratford - The Works of Shakespeare. Stratford, 1907.
1909 Nottingham Shakespeare |nottingham1909shakespere| - 19 volumes
1909 Herford - Works of Shakespeare. (Eversley Edition)
Ed. C.H. Herford. 1909.
1917+ Yale - The Works of William Shakespeare
New Haven: Yale UP (1917, etc.).
1936 Kittredge
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ed. George Lyman Kittredge
Boston: Ginn & Co., 1936
1942 Neilson - Complete Works
Ed. W.A. Neilson and C.J. Hill. 1942.
1948 Harrison - The Complete Works. By William Shakespeare
Ed. G.B. Harrison. New York, 1948.
1951 Alexander - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. Peter Alexander. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1951.
1958 Munro - The London Shakespeare. Ed. J.L. Munro. 6 vols. London, 1958.
1977 Harbage - William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Gen. ed. Alfred Harbage. (Complete Pelican Shakespeare, rev. ed.)
Baltimore (MD): Penguin, 1969. Rpt. New York: Viking, 1977.
1972 Barnet - The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare
Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York: Harcourt, 1972.
1974 Evens - The Riverside Shakespeare
Gen. ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston (MA): Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
1997 Evens - The Riverside Shakespeare. Rev. ed.
G. Blakemore Evans and J.J.M. Tobin. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
1974 Craig - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Ed. W.J. Craig. (Oxford Standard Authors). London: Oxford UP, 1974.
1977 MLA - A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. New York: MLA, 1977.
1979 Harbage - The Complete Works. (The Pelican Shakespeare)
General ed. Alfred Harbage. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
1997 Bevington - The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ed. David Bevington. 3rd ed. 1980
4th ed. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.
1988 Bevington - The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ed. David Bevington. New York: Bantam, 1988.
1985 - The Complete Works of Shakespeare. London: Collins, 1985.
1986 Wells - William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Ed. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and William Montgomery
Oxford, 1986.
1992 Scott - Shakespeare for Students
By Mark Scott
(Includes Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet,
As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello,
The Merchant of Venice).
Andover (England): Gale Research International, 1992.
1986+ Wells - The Complete Works. (The Oxford Shakespeare)
Gen. eds. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor
Editors: Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, William Montgomery
Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. 1987. 1988
Vol. 1: Histories Vol. 2.: Comedies Vol. 3: Tragedies
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
1990 Wells - The Complete Works
Ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.
1995 The Complete Works
(Cover: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works)
Compact ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.*
1998 The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. 1 vol.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.
1992 Bevington - The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ed. David Bevington. 4th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
1997 Bevington - The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Ed. David Bevington. 4th ed. Harlow (Essex): Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.
1994 Four Comedies. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
1994 Four Histories: Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
1994 Four Tragedies. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
1994 Three Roman Plays: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.
1995 Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare.
CD-ROM. Cambridge: Chadwick-Healey, 1995.
1996 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
The Shakespeare Head Press Edition. Ware: Wordsworth, 1996.
1997 Greenblatt - The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition
General ed. Stephen Greenblatt
Editors: Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus
With an essay on the Shakespearean stage by Andrew Gurr
New York: Norton, 1997.*
1998 The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Surrey: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1998.
; 40 SHAKSPERE QUARTO FACSIMILES
; WITH INTRODUCTIONS, LINE-NUMBERS, [ETC], BY SHAKSPERE SCHOLARS,
; ISSUED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF DR F.J. FURNIVALL.
;
; By W. Griggs
; v. 1 Hamlet; the 1st quarto, 1603.
; v. 2 Hamlet; the 2nd quarto, 1604.
; v. 3 Midsummer night's dream; the 1st quarto, 1600.
; v. 4 Midsummer night's dream, the 2nd quarto, 1600.
; v. 5 Loves labors lost; the 1st quarto, 1598.
; v. 6 Merry wives of Windsor; the 1st quarto, 1602.
; v. 7 Merchant of Venice; the 1st quarto, 1600.
; v. 9 King Henry IV (part 1); 1st quarto, 1598-1600..
; v. 9 King Henry IV (part 2); 1st quarto, 1598-1600..
; v. 10 The passionate pilgrim; the 1st quarto, 1599.
; v. 11 Richard III; the 1st quarto, 1597.
; v. 12 Venus and Adonis; the 1st quarto, 1593.
; v. 13 Troilus and Cressida; the 1st quarto 1609.
;
; by C. Praetorius
; v. 14 Much adoe about nothing; quarto ed. 1600.
; v. 15 The taming of a shrew; the 1st quarto, 1594.
; v. 16 Merchant of Venice; the 2nd quarto, 1600.
; v. 17 King Richard the second; the 1st quarto, 1597. (Devonshire copy).
; v. 18 King Richard the second; the 1st quarto, 1597. (Hugh copy).
; v. 19 King Richard the second; the 3rd quarto, 1608.
; v. 20 King Richard the second; the 5th quarto, 1634.
; v. 21 Pericles, the 1st quarto, 1609.
; v. 22 Pericles, the 2nd quarto, 1609.
; v. 23 The whole Contention, 1619, the 3rd quarto, 1619, pt. 1. (Henry VI)
; v. 24 The whole Contention, 1619, the 3rd quarto, 1619, pt. 2. (Henry VI)
; v. 25 Romeo and Juliet. 1597.
; v. 26 Romeo and Juliet. 1599. (book says 'undated')
; v. 27 Henry V. 1600.
; v. 28 Henry V. 1608.
; v. 29 Titus Andronicus. 1600.
; v. 3O Sonnets and Lover's Complaint. 1609,
; v. 31 Othello, 1622.
; v. 32 Othello. 1630.
; v. 33 King Lear. 1608. Q1.
; v. 34 King Lear. 1608, Q2.
; v. 35 Lucrece. 1594.
; v. 36 Romeo and Juliet. Undated.
; v. 37 Contention. 1594. (author in question)
; v. 38 True Tragedy. 1595. (author in question)
; v. 39 The Famous Victories. 1538.
; v. 40 The Troublesome Raigne. 1691. (King John part 1)
; v. 41 The Troublesome Raigne. 1691. (King John part 2)
; v. 42 Richard III. 1602. Q3.
; v. 43 Richard III. 1622. Q6.
Works about William Shakespeare
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