Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Preface
- The Life of Shakespeare
- The Theatres and Companies
- Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
- Shakespeare the Poet
- Shakespeare and Elizabethan English
- Shakespeare and Music
- The National Background
- The Social Background
- Shakespeare's Sources
- Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time
- Shakespeare's Text
- Shakespearian Criticism
- Shakespearian Scholarship
- Shakespeare in the Theatre from the Restoration to the Present Time
- Reading List
- Appendices
- Index
- Plate section
Shakespeare's Text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Preface
- The Life of Shakespeare
- The Theatres and Companies
- Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
- Shakespeare the Poet
- Shakespeare and Elizabethan English
- Shakespeare and Music
- The National Background
- The Social Background
- Shakespeare's Sources
- Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time
- Shakespeare's Text
- Shakespearian Criticism
- Shakespearian Scholarship
- Shakespeare in the Theatre from the Restoration to the Present Time
- Reading List
- Appendices
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The following editions of plays and poems by Shakespeare were published prior to the collected edition of his plays in the Folio of 1623. The text of editions marked * is notably abridged and corrupt.
1593. Venus and Adonis. R. Field. Entered on Stationers' Register: April 18th. Dedicated to the Earl of Southampton. Reprinted: 1594, (1595?), 1596, 1599 (2 eds.), (1602?), “1602” (three later reprints so dated to avoid censorship), 1617, 1620.
1594. Lucrece. R. Field. Entered: May 9th. Dedicated to the Earl of Southampton. Reprinted: 1598, 1600 (2 eds.), 1607, 1616.
1594. The most lamentable Romaine tragedie of Titus Andronicus. (Anon.) J. Danter, sold by E. White & T. Millington. Entered: February 6th. Reprinted: 1600, 1611.
*1594. The first part of The Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster. (Anon.) T. Creedefor T. Millington. Entered: March 12th. Reprinted: 1600, and again in 1619 with ‘The True Tragedie’ as ‘The Whole Contention betweene the two famous houses, Lancaster and Yorke’. A memorial abridgment of a text of II Henry VI not greatly differing from that of the Folio.
*1595. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke. (Anon.) P.S[hori] for T. Millington. Reprinted: 1600 and again in 1619 with ‘The first part’, as The Whole Contention. A memorial abridgment of a text of III Henry VI not gready differing from that of die Folio.
*1597. An excellent conceited tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. (Anon.) J. Danter.
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- Companion to Shakespeare Studies , pp. 263 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1934