Author: Sidney Lee

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Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781331920441

Excerpt from A Shakespeare Reference Library a. Plays and Poems. The 'Globe' Edition: ed. W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright. Macmillan. 3s.6d. or The 'Oxford' Edition: ed. W. J. Craig, Clarendon Press. 2s. [Each of these books supplies in a single volume of a size fitted for ready reference a trustworthy text of the whole of Shakespeare's work without comment but with brief glossary.] The 'Temple' Edition: ed. Prof. I. Gollanez. 40 vols. Dent. 1s. net each. [Each play is in a separate volume, and has a concise introduction with notes and a glossary.] or The 'Eversley' Edition: ed. Prof. C. H. Herford. 10 vols. Macmillan. 4s. net each, or 39 vols. 1s. net each. [This edition has good introductions but scanty notes. Both the 'Temple' and 'Eversley' editions follow the Cambridge Text. (See Appendix I, 1 infra.)] b. Doubtful Plays. The Two Noble Kinsmen: ed. Prof. C. H. Herford. The Temple Dramatists. Dent. 1s. net. [There are grounds for regarding this play as a joint work of Shakespeare and John Fletcher.] Edward III: ed. Prof. G. C. Moore-Smith. The Temple Dramatists. Dent. 1s. net.[Portions of this play have been doubtfully assigned to Shakespeare.] The Shakespeare Apocrypha: being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare; with introduction, notes, and bibliography by C. F. Tucker Brooke. Clarendon Press. 5s. net. [This book contains, in addition to the Two Noble Kinsmen, the thirteen plays, for the authorship of which in whole or part Shakespeare has been occasionally held responsible, although on few grounds that merit attention. The plays are - Arden of Feversham; Locrine; Edward III; Mucedoras; Sir John Oldcastle; Thomas Lord Cromwell; The London Prodigal; The Puritan; A Yorkshire Tragedy; The Merry Devil of Edmonton; Fair Em; The Birth of Merlin; Sir Thomas More. This collection is chiefly valuable as an illustration in a brief compass of the commonplace types of drama which were popular in the Elizabethan or Jacobean playhouses. The three plays marked in the above entry have been separately edited with preface, notes, and glossary in the Temple Dramatists. Dent. 1s. net each. Edward III has already been mentioned; Arden of Feversham is edited by the Rev. Ronald Bayne; The Merry Devil of Edmonton by Prof. Hugh Walker.] c. Poems. Poems. Ed. George Wyndham. Methuen, 1898. 10s.6d. [The Introduction and Notes abound in elaborate and delicate criticism which is always of great interest, if sometimes unconvincing.] About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."