The dramatic works of William Shakspeare; with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected

Authors:William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier

Print Book, English, 1846

Publisher: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, Boston, 1846

Physical Description:7 volumes frontispiece (portrait) 25 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:187483735

Contents:

v. 1. Life. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare [by J.P. Collier] Shakspere's will. Preface of the players [1623] Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing

v. 2. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew

v. 3. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry iv, pt. 1

v. 4. Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3

v. 5. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

v. 6. Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

v. 7. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

Notes:

Edited by Oliver W.B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts" by Collier. The first critical American edition. cf. Preface and J. Sherzer, American editions of Shakespeare (Modern lang. assoc. Publ., v. 22, pp. 658-659)