Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, and tragedies : faithfully reproduced in facsimile from the edition of 1685.
Title:
Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, and tragedies : faithfully reproduced in facsimile from the edition of 1685.
Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Plays.
Publication Information:
London : Methuen & Co., 1904.
Physical Description:
2 plates l. pages, facsimile: 6 pages l., 272 pages, 1 l., 328 pages, 303 pages : illustrations ; 39 cm
General Note:
Original title: Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The fourth edition. London. Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley ... 1685.
The matter on the verso of the 4th, and on the 5th and 6th preliminary leaves is printed in double columns, differing in this respect from the first three editions.
The dedication and the preface of the first folio edition are retained.
Language:
English
Contents:
Tempest - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Merry Wives of Windsor - Measure for Measure - Comedy of Errors - Much ado about nothing - Loves labour's lost - Midsummers nights dream - Merchant of Venice - As you like it - Taming of the shrew - All's well that ends well - Twelf-night, or what you will - Winters tale - King John - ... King Richard the Second - First [and second] part of Henry the Fourth - ... Henry the Fifth - First [- third part] ... Henry the Sixth - .. Richard the Third - ... King Henry the Eighth - Troilus and Cressida - Coriolanus - Titus Andronicus - Romeo and Juliet -Timon of Athens - Julius Caesar - Macbeth - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Anthony and Cleopatra - Cymbeline - Pericles, Prince of Tyre - London Prodigal - ... Thomas Lord Cromwell - Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham - Puritan, or, the Widow of Watlingstreet - Yorkshire Tragedy - Locrine, the eldest son of King Brutus (pages of the last three are intermixed).
Format :
Book