poems
300
|
|
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The ‘Poems’ of 1640
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300
|
|
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Quartos of the plays in the poet’s lifetime
|
300
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|
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Posthumous quartos of the plays
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300
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1623
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The First Folio
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303
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|
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The publishing syndicate
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303
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|
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The prefatory matter
|
306
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|
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The value of the text
|
307
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|
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The order of the plays
|
307
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|
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The typography
|
308
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|
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Unique copies
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308
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The Sheldon copy
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309
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|
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Estimated number of extant copies
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310
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|
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Reprints of the First Folio
|
311
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|
1632
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The Second Folio
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312
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1663–4
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The Third Folio
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312
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1685
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The Fourth Folio
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313
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Eighteenth-century editions
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313
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Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718)
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314
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|
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Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
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315
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|
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Lewis Theobald (1688–1744)
|
317
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|
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Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677–1746)
|
317
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|
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Bishop Warburton (1698–1779)
|
318
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|
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Dr. Johnson (1709–1783)
|
319
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|
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Edward Capell (1713–1781)
|
319
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|
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George Steevens (1736–1800)
|
320
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|
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Edmund Malone (1741–1812)
|
322
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|
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Variorum editions
|
322
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|
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Nineteenth-century editors
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323
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Alexander Dyce (1798–1869)
|
323
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Howard Staunton (1810–1874)
|
324
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|
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Nikolaus Delius (1813–1888)
|
324
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|
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The Cambridge edition (1863–6)
|
324
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|
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Other nineteenth-century editions
|
324
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|
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XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION
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|
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Views of Shakespeare’s contemporaries
|
326
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|
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Ben Jonson tribute
|
327
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|
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English opinion between 1660 and 1702
|
329
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|
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Dryden’s view
|
330
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|
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Restoration adaptations
|
331
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|
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English opinion from 1702 onwards
|
332
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|
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Stratford festivals
|
334
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|
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Shakespeare on the English stage
|
334
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|
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The first appearance of actresses in Shakespearean parts
|
334
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David Garrick (1717–1779)
|
336
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John Philip Kemble (1757–1823)
|
337
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|
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Mrs. Sarah Siddons (1755–1831)
|
337
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|
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Edmund Kean (1787–1833)
|
338
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|
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William Charles Macready (1793–1873)
|
339
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|
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Recent revivals
|
339
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|
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Shakespeare in English music and art
|
340
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Boydell’s
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