ONE VOLUME EDITIONS.

Cassell's illus. Shakespeare; the comedies, histories, tragedies, sonnets and poems; w. a biog. and critical introd. by F. J. Furnivall and J. Munro; a glossary and list of characters. n. d.

Works; with life, glossary, etc., carefully edited from the best texts, and compared with recent commentators. Universal ed. 1892.

Works; ed. by W. G. Clark and W. A. Wright. [Globe ed.] 1893.

The exceedingly careful and exhaustive collation of all previous textual readings in the notes of [the Cambridge Shakespeare, rev. ed. of 1891-3] make it indispensable for the serious student, and its text, substantially reprinted in the Globe edition, is the most widely accepted form of the works of Shakespeare which has ever been circulated.Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shakespeare. Complete dramatic works, w. Tarquin and Lucrece, The passionate pilgrim, sonnets and minor poems; added, Taine's estimate of Shakespeare, Irving's essay on Stratford, an introd. paper on Shakespeare's life and times and an introd. to each play by W. V. Byars. [c1898.]

Complete works; ed. w. a glossary by W. J. Craig. 1908. (Oxford Shakespeare.) Complete works; w. Dr. Johnson's preface; a glossary, and an account of each play, and a memoir of the author, by W. Harness. n. d.

Complete dramatic and poetic works; ed. fr. the text of the early quartos and the first folio; by W. A. Neilson. 1906. (The Cambridge ed. of the poets, ed. by Bliss Perry.)

The only completely re-edited texts which have been issued since the revised Cambridge edition are the Oxford Shakespeare by W. J. Craig and the Neilson text, originally published in one volume in 1906 and revised and reprinted in the Tudor Shakespeare.-Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shakespeare.

Complete works; printed fr. the text of G. Steevens; w. a memoir by A. Chalmers. 1895.

Title page and end-papers designed by Lewis F. Day, w. colored illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke, Byam Shaw, Henry J. Ford.

Tragedies. [1913.] (Everyman's lib.)

A very good cheap edition, well printed on serviceable paper. A glossary is provided at the end of each volume. A marvel of cheapness and good workmanship.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide to Shakespeare.

Reader's Shakespeare; his dramatic works condensed, connected, and emphasized for school, college, parlour and platform, by D. C. Bell. v. 1-2. 1895-97. 2 v.

Works; [notes on the text by H. A. Bullen. Stratford Town ed.] 1904-1907. 10 v.

A very beautifully printed edition, the first issued in the poet's native town.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide to Shakespeare.

Works; ed. by M. C. Clarke. 1864. 2 v. Ref. Complete dramatic and poetical works, w. outline of life of the poet by J. S. Hart, text ed. by W. G. Clark and W. A. Wright. [c1878.] [Avon ed.]

Comedies; the text of the Oxf. ed. prepared by W. J. Craig; w. a general introd. by A. C. Swinburne, introd. studies of the several plays by E. Dowden, and a full glossary. 1915.

Histories and poems; the text of the Oxf. ed. prepared by W. J. Craig; w. introd. studies of the several plays and poems by E. Dowden, and a full glossary. 1912.

Tragedies; the text of the Oxf. ed. prepared by W. J. Craig; w. introd. studies of the several plays by E. Dowden, and a full glossary. 1912. This is the best cheap large edition of Shakespeare published. It is well printed on good paper with all the care of the Oxford University Press. Dowden's introductions discuss the sources, dates, time, duration and characters. There is a glossary in each volume. The lines of the text are numbered.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide to Shakespeare.

Works, rev. by A. Dyce. 3d ed.

1875-77. 8 v.

v. 1, 3-9.

Alexander Dyce, wisest of Elizabethan scholars, produced in 1857 a characteristically sane text, on the whole the best to this date.-Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shakespeare.

New variorum edition; ed. by H. H. Furness. 1871-1913. 18 v. S. S.

This edition prints the First Folio text in the original spelling, and collects on an exhaustive scale at the bottom of the pages the various notes of previous editors. The Introductions and Appendices give previously published essays of criticism and research. Although the massive editorial apparatus is mainly compiled from older sources, room is found for much shrewd original comment by the editor. Sidney Lee in A Shakespeare reference library.

One of the most complete and important critical contributions to the literature of Shakespeare. The following plays have been published:

Temple Shakespeare; w. pref., glossary, &c., by I. Gollancz. 1896-1912. 40 v.

This is one of the most charming editions ever published. The volumes are pocket size, in flexible covers, beautifully printed on fine paper. The text is the Globe text, and is numbered. Each volume contains an introd. on the early editions, date sources, duration of the action, and at the end brief notes and a glossary.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide to Shakespeare.

Complete works; rev. fr. the original ed., w. notes and life by J. O. Halliwell and other commentators; il. fr. daguerreotypes of actors. n. d. 3 v. Ref.

These colossal volumes contain stores of antiquarian illustration.-Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shake

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Works; text carefully restored according to the first editions; w. introd., notes, original and selected, and a life of the poet by H. N. Hudson. Rev. ed. w. add. notes. [c1881.] 12 v. (Students' handy ed.)

Plays; w. introd. and notes by H. N. Hudson. 1885-92. 3 v.

Complete works, w. a life of the poet, explanatory foot-notes, critical notes and a glossarial index by H. N. Hudson. Harvard ed. 1899. 20 v. in 10. Illus.

The Hudson editions are most practical for every day classroom work.

Works; ed. by Sir H. Irving and F. A. Marshall; w. notes and introd. to each play by F. A. Marshall and other Shakespearian scholars, and life of Shakespeare by E. Dowden. n.d. 8 v. Excellent for the stage history of the plays.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide to Shakespeare.

Plays; w. the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. 5th ed. rev. and augmented by Isaac Reed, w. Ref. a glossarial index. 1803. 21 v.

Vol. I contains Advertisement and prefaces by Reed, Steevens, Richardson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson, Capell, Mason, Reed and Malone. Complete works fr. the original text: collated and compared w. the editions of Halliwell, Knight and Collier; w. hist. and critical introd. and notes to each play, and a life, by C. Knight. n. d. 3 v. Illus.

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Contents: v. 1. Comedies; v. 2. Tragedies and poems; v. 3. Historical plays.

Works; ed. by C. Knight. Imperial ed. n. d. 2 v. Ref.

Contains numerous old steel engravings.

Pictorial ed. of works; ed. by C. Knight. n. d. Histories, 2 v.; Comedies, 2 v.; Tragedies, 2 v.; Doubtful plays, 1 v. n. d. 7 v. Doubtful plays, 2d ed.

Works; w. a hist. of the stage, a life of the poet, an introd. to each play and notes by Knight. v. 1-2, 4, 6, 8. 1864. 5 v.

Stratford Shakespere; ed. by C. Knight. 1870. 6 v.

Charles Knight resorted to the text of the First Folio as an exclusive authority.-Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shakespeare.

Complete works; w. annotations and a general introd. by S. Lee. [c1906-08.] Illus. 20 v. The text follows the Cambridge Shakespeare, but occasionally the present editor gives in his notes reasons for preferring another reading. The notes which are at the bottom of the page deal briefly with textual, verbal, historical and general matters, and cite parallel passages wherever they seem to have illustrative pertinence. The annotations of the later plays and the sonnets are full. The last volume contains two indices and a glossary. Editor.

Comedies, histories, and tragedies of S., as presented at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres, 1591-1623; being the text furnished the players, in parallel pages w. the 1st revised folio text, w. critical introductions: The Bankside Shakespeare, by A. Morgan. [18881906.] 22 v.

Text of the quartos is printed by the side of the text of the first folio, 1623.-New Iternational Ency

Plays; as rewritten or rearranged by his successors of the Restoration period, as presented at the Duke's theatre and elsewhere circa 1664-1669; being the text of these so-restored plays w. the first folio Shakespeare text. w. critical introd; ed. by A. Morgan and W. Vickery. The Bankside-restoration Shakespeare. 1907-08. 5 v.

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He constantly inserted his private conjectures without notice and his explanations of difficult opinions are few and frequently wrong. Passages considered by him inferior or spurious he relegated to the foot of the pages; others he omitted without notice. His ear is often jarred by the freedom of Shakespeare's verse and he did his best to make it "regular" by eighteenth century standards. Yet Pope spent much ingenuity in striving to better the text, and no small number of restorations and emendations are to be credited to him, especially in connection with the arrangement of the verse. He is to be credited also with discernment in rejecting the seven plays added to the Shakespearean canon in the third Folio, of which only Pericles has been restored.-Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shakespeare.

[The first folio edition]; ed. w. notes, introd., glossary, list of variorum readings and sel. criticism by C. Porter and H. A. Clarke. [1903-c1912.] 40 v.

An excellent edition for ordinary use.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide by Shakespeare.

Dramatic works; w. notes by J. Rann. 17861791. 6 v.

Works; ed. by W. J. Rolfe. Friendly ed. v. 1-2, 4, 6-13, 15-20. 1892-93. 17 v.

Dramatic works; ed. by S. W. Singer. 1899. 10 v.

Works; ed. by H. Staunton; il. by Sir J. Gilbert. 1881. 15 v. Ref.

Dramatic works; rev. by G. Steevens. 1802. 9 v. Ref. Contains prefaces of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

Plays and poems; ed. by A. J. Valpy. v. 1-2, 4-15. 1870-1875. 14 v.

Plays; w. his life; ed. by G. C. Verplanck. v. 1-2. 1847. 2 v. Ref.

Works; the plays edited fr. the folio of 1623, w. various readings fr. all the editions and all the commentators, notes, introd. remarks, a hist. sketch of the text, an account of the rise and progress of the English drama, a memoir of the poet and an essay upon his genius; by R. G. White. v. 1-8. 1863-71. 8 v.

-v. 1-3, 5-10, 12. 1865. 10 v.

Brilliant but erratic Richard Grant White produced editions which show a commendable if puzzling openness to conviction in successive changes of opinion.-Neilson and Thorndike in Facts about Shakespeare.

Comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems; ed. w. notes by R. G. White. 1883-84. 6 v. (Riverside ed.)

Works; ed. by W. A. Wright. 1902-05. 9 v.

This edition offers the most complete apparatus for the study of the text. It is accurate in its citations of various readings. Indispensable in any collection used for scholarly work.-H. H. B. Meyer in A brief guide to Shakespeare.

SEPARATE PLAYS.

Texts, with or without notes and comments, are grouped together under the title of each play, followed by a list of commentaries unaccompanied by text.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

All's well that ends well; w. the story of Giletta. n. d.

All's well that ends well; ed. by W. G. BoswellStone; introd. by F. W. Clarke. (Old spelling S.)

All's well that ends well; ed. by W. O. Brigstocke. n. d.

Comedy of All's well that ends well; w. pref., glossary, etc., by I. Gollancz. 1912. (Temple Shakespeare.)

All's well that ends well; ed. by J. L. Lowes. 1912. (Tudor Shakespeare.)

Comedy of All's well that ends well; ed. w. notes by W. J. Rolfe. [c1905.]