The dramatic works of William Shakspeare; with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected ..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848.

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858.

Symmons, Charles, 1749-1826.

Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883.

Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848, editor.

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

7 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Hilliard, Gray, and company, 1839-1841.

Contents:

v. 1. Life. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare [by J.P. Collier] Shakspere's will. Preface of the players [1623] 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 labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew.

v. 3. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry iv, pt. 1.

v. 4. Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3.

v. 5. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

v. 6. Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles.

v. 7. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello.

v. 6. Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles.

Notes:

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" by Collier. The first critical American edition. cf. Preface and J. Sherzer, American editions of Shakespeare (Modern lang. assoc. Publ., v. 22, pp. 658-659)

Edited by Oliver W.B. Peabody; based on Singer's ed., "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, rev. The first critical American ed.--cf. Pref. and J. Sherzer, American editions of Shakespeare (MLA Publ., v. 22, pp. 658-659)

Gift: Miss L.F. Warner, 1940.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 58488

OCLC:

9053271