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The plays of William Shakespeare

This edition had a profound influence on Shakespeare scholarship marking a crucial change in 18th century attitudes to Shakespeare and the canon of English literature, as well as setting new standards of collaborative textual scholarship
Print Book, English, 1995
Routledge/Thoemmes, London, 1995
12 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
9780415120708, 0415120705
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v. 1. Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor
v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost
v. 3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew
v. 4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth
v. 5. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, parts I-II
v. 6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III
v. 7. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus
v. 8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus
v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
Supplement. v. 11. Advertisement. Additional observations. Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint
Supplement. v. 12. Pericles. Locrine. Sir John Oldcastle. Lord Cromwell. The London Prodigal. The puritan. A Yorkshire tragedy. Appendix
Reprint. Originally published: The plays of William Shakespeare in ten volumes : with corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. 2d. ed., rev. and augmented London : Printed for Bathhurst, etc., 1778