The ‘Poems’ of 1640.
Quartos of the plays in the poet’s lifetime.
Posthumous quartos of the plays.
The First Folio. The publishing syndicate.
The prefatory matter.
The value of the text.
The order of the plays.
The typography.
Unique copies.
The Sheldon copy.
Estimated number of extant copies.
Reprints of the First Folio.
The Second Folio. The Third Folio. The Fourth Folio.
Eighteenth-century editors.
Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1718.
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
Lewis Theobald, 1688-1744.
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1677-1746.
Bishop Warburton, 1698-1779.
Dr. Johnson, 1709-1783.
Edward Capell, 1713-1781.
George Steevens, 1736-1800.
Edmund Malone, 1741-1812.
Variorum editions.
Nineteenth-century editors.
Alexander Dyce, 1798-1869. Howard Staunton, 1810-1874. The Cambridge edition, 1863-6.
Other nineteenth-century editions.
XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION
Ben Jonson’s tribute.
1660-1702. Dryden’s view.
Restoration adaptations.
From 1702 onwards.
Stratford festivals.
On the English stage. The first appearance of actresses in Shakespearean parts. David Garrick, 1717-1779.
John Philip Kemble, 1757-1823. Mrs. Sarah Siddons, 1755-1831.
Edmund Kean, 1787-1833.
William Charles Macready, 1793-1873.
Recent revivals.
In music and art.
In America.
Translations. In Germany. German translations.
Modern German writers on Shakespeare.
On the German stage.
In France. Voltaire’s strictures.
French critics’ gradual emancipation from Voltairean influence.
On the French stage.
In Italy.
In Holland.
In Russia.
In Poland.
In Hungary.
In other countries.
XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE
General estimate.
Character of Shakespeare’s achievement.
Its universal recognition.
