9 vols. 1863-1866. 2d
ed., 1891-1893. The text known as the Cambridge text is very near to
that of the Globe ed., and these have been generally used in recent
editions.
A new Variorum Edition, ed. H. Howard Furness and H. H. Furness, Jr. (in
progress). Philadelphia, 1871. This ed. prints (latterly) the First
Folio text with exhaustive variants and annotations. The appendices
supply much illustrative matter. The following plays have appeared:
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (2d ed.), Hamlet (2 vols.), Lear, Othello,
Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's
Dream, A Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Love's
Labour's Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Julius Caesar.
The Arden Shakespeare, general ed. W. J. Craig, in progress, 1899. Publ.
in the U. S. without special title by Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis.
The Eversley Edition, ed. by C. H. Herford. 10 vols., 1901-1907.
Among other recent editions are the Rolfe ed., 40 vols., 1871, revised
1896; Temple, ed. I. Gollancz, 40 vols., 1894, 1895; First Folio, ed. C.
Porter and H. Clarke (following and defending the text of the First
Folio). New York, 1903; Caxton, general ed. S. Lee, 1910.
_Historical Editions._
The most valuable is the Third Variorum, Boswell and Malone, 21 vols.,
1821. The other principal editions are discussed in this volume, and
include: Rowe, 1709, 1714; Pope, 1723-1725; Theobald, 1733; Hanmer,
1744; Warburton, 1747; Johnson, 1765; Steevens (20 plays), 1766; Capell,
1768; Steevens (and Johnson), 1773; Malone, 1790; Reed (Steevens and
Johnson), 1st Variorum, 1803; 2d Variorum, 1813; Knight, 1838-1842,
second ed., 1842-1844; Hudson, 1851-1856; Delius, 1854-1861; Dyce, 1857,
second ed., 1864-1867; White, 1857-1860, second ed., 1859-1865.
2. FACSIMILE REPRINTS
For a discussion of conditions of publication of early editions, see A.
W. Pollard's Shakespeare's Folios and Quartos. 1909.
The First Folio, With introd. by Sidney Lee. Oxford, 1902.
The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Folios. Methuen, 1904-1910.
The First Folio, reprint, L. Booth, 1869.
The First Folio, in reduced facsimile, J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, 1876.
Very small type.
Quarto Facsimiles. E. W. Ashbee. 48 vols. 1862-1871.
Quarto Facsimiles reproduced by photographic process, J. W. Griggs,
under the superintendence of F. J. Furnivall. 43 vols. 1883-1889.
Shakespeare's Poems and Pericles, with introduction by Sidney
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