The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : illustrated ; embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected
Print Book, English, 1850-51
Boston edition View all formats and editions
Phillips, Sampson and company, Boston, 1850-51
8 v. ([38] leaves of plates) : ports. ; 26 cm.
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V. l: Life of William Shakspeare. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare / J. Payne Collier. Shakspeare's will. Preface of the players / John Heminge and Henry Condell. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing
v. 2: Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that end's well. Taming of the shrew
v. 3: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. V. 4: King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3
v. 5: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
v. 6: Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
v. 7: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
v. 8: Poems. Verses among the additional poems to Chester's Love's martyr, 1601. Illustrations of A lover's complaint, The passionate pilgrim, &c. Supplementary notice to the poems. Supplementary notice to the Roman plays
Vol. 1 has added t.-p., illustrated: Shakspeare's complete works. Boston edition ... 1851
Vol 2-5 have half-title: Shakspeare's dramatic works
Vol. 8 has special t.-p. only: The poetical works of William Shakspeare; with notes illustrative and explanatory; together with a supplementary notice to the Roman plays
Edited by Oliver W.B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare," by Collier. Cf. "Advertisement," Pref. to the 1836 ed. and J. Sherzer, American editions of Shakespeare (MLA publ., v. 22, p. 657-660)
Each play preceded by portrait of female character from that play
Editions vary: v. 3 published in 1854; v. 4-8 published in 1857