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Acquisitions (2): William Shakespeare


Michael J. B. Allen & Kenneth Muir: Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto (1981)




William Shakespeare


[Acquired: Thursday, August 23, 2012]:



Allen, Michael J. B., & Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntingdon Library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.





Czeslaw Gricz: Letter to Paula Schlosser (15/7/82)


This is a truly massive book, presumably intended as a companion volume to Charlton Hinman's 1968 facsimile edition of the First Folio. It comes in a handsome slipcase, and includes photographic reprints of all of the quartos (good, bad, and indifferent) in the list above. I've coveted it for quite some time. I was a bit surprised, though, when I first opened my copy, to find the letter reproduced above. It turns out that this copy was sent to the book designer by one of the other members of the production team. I now have it placed between Hinman and the 1987 Oxford Shakespeare: three huge tomes in a row ...


  1. Titus Andronicus (1594 - Q1)
  2. Henry VI, Part 2 (1594 - Q1)
  3. Henry VI, Part 3 (1595 - Q1)
  4. Romeo and Juliet (1597 - Q1 / "Bad" Quarto)
  5. Romeo and Juliet (1599 - Q2)
  6. Richard II (1597 - Q1 / with the "deposition" scene from Q4)
  7. Richard III (1597 - Q1)
  8. Love's Labour's Lost (1598 - Q1)
  9. Henry IV, Part 1 (1598 - Q1)
  10. Henry IV, Part 2 (1600 - Q1)
  11. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600 - Q1)
  12. The Merchant of Venice (1600 - Q1)
  13. Much Ado About Nothing (1600 - Q1)
  14. Henry V (1600 - Q1)
  15. The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602 - Q1)
  16. Hamlet (1603 - Q1 / "Bad" Quarto)
  17. Hamlet (1605 - Q2)
  18. King Lear (1608 - Q1)
  19. Troilus and Cressida (1609 - Q1)
  20. Pericles (1609 - Q1)
  21. Othello (1622 - Q1)
  22. The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634 - Q1)




The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus



Henry VI, Part 2 (1594)

Henry VI, Part 2
(1594 - Q1)

The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey: And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinal of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Jack Cade: and the Duke of Yorke's first claim unto the Crowne



Henry VI, Part 3 (1595)

Henry VI, Part 3
(1595 - Q1)

The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the Whole Contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke



Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Romeo and Juliet
(1597 - Q1 / "Bad" Quarto)

An excellent conceited tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet



Romeo and Juliet (1599)

Romeo and Juliet
(1599 - Q2)

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet



Richard II (1597)

Richard II
(1597 - Q1 / with the "deposition" scene from Q4)

The Tragedie of King Richard the second



Richard III (1597)

Richard III
(1597 - Q1)

The tragedy of King Richard the third. Containing, his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes: his tyrannicall usurpation: with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserved death

A Pleasant Conceited Comedie called Loues labors lost



Henry IV, Part 1 (1598)

Henry IV, Part 1
(1598 - Q1)

The History of Henrie the Fourth, with the battell at Shrewsburie between the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur of the North, with the humorous conceits of Sir John Falstaffe



Henry IV, Part 2 (1600)

Henry IV, Part 2
(1600 - Q1)

The second part of Henrie the fourth, continuing to his death, and coronation of Henrie the fift. With the humours of Sir John Falstaffe, and swaggering Pistoll

A Midsommer nights dreame

The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Jewe towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh: and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests

Much adoe about Nothing



Henry V (1600)

Henry V
(1600 - Q1)

The cronicle history of Henry the fift, with his battell fought at Agin Court in France. Togither with Auntient Pistoll

A most pleasaunt and excellent conceited Comedie, of Syr John Falstaffe, and the merrie Wives of Windsor. Entermixed with sundrie variable and pleasing humours, of Syr Hugh the Welch knight, Justice Shallow, and his wise cousin M. Slender. With the swaggering vaine of Auncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym



Hamlet (1603)

Hamlet
(1603 - Q1 / "Bad" Quarto)

The tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke



Hamlet (1605)

Hamlet
(1605 - Q1)

The tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. Newly imprinted, and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie



King Lear (1608)

King Lear
(1608 - Q1)

M. William Shakspeare: His True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam

The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. Excellently expressing the beginning of their loves, with the conceited wooing of Pandarus, Prince of Licia



Pericles (1609)

Pericles
(1609 - Q1)

The Late and much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of the sayd Prince: As also, The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter Mariana



Othello (1622)

Othello
(1622 - Q1)

The Tragœdy of Othello, The Moore of Venice

The Two Noble Kinsmen: Presented at the Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties Servants, with great applause: Written by the Memorable worthies of their time; Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakespeare,} Gent.




In fact, the only significant quarto that's missing from this collection is The Raigne of King Edward the Third, which has been added to a number of "complete" editions of Shakespeare's works of late. Whether or not this is a reasonable attribution is debatable, but it's hard to see it as a terribly significant absence:



  • Edward the Third (1596 - Q1)
The Raigne of King Edvvard the third








William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)

    Works:

  1. Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facsimile Edition. 1623. Ed. Helge Kökeritz. Introduction by Charles Tyler Prouty. 1954. New York: Yale University Press, 1955.

  2. Hinman, Charlton, ed. The First Folio of Shakespeare. The Norton Facsimile. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968.

  3. Allen, Michael J. B., & Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntingdon Library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

  4. Shakespeare, William. The New Arden Shakespeare (1946-1982)
    1. All’s Well That Ends Well. Ed. G. K. Hunter. 1959. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982.
    2. As You Like It. Ed. Agnes Latham. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1975.
    3. The Comedy of Errors. Ed. R. A. Foakes. 1962. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1963.
    4. Love’s Labour’s Lost. Ed. Richard David. 1951. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1977.
    5. Measure for Measure. Ed. J. W. Lever. 1965. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1972.
    6. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. John Russell Brown. 1955. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1972.
    7. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ed. H. J. Oliver. 1971. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1973.
    8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ed. Harold F. Brooks. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1979.
    9. Much Ado About Nothing. Ed. A. R. Humphreys. 1981. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1984.
    10. The Taming of the Shrew. Ed. Brian Morris. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1981.
    11. Twelfth Night. Ed. J. M. Lothian & T. W. Craik. 1975. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1977.
    12. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Ed. Clifford Leech. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1969.
    13. King John. Ed. E. A. J. Honigmann. 1954. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1973.
    14. King Richard II. Ed. Peter Ure. 1956. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1959. .
    15. The First Part of King Henry IV. Ed. A. R. Humphreys. 1960. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1978.
    16. The Second Part of King Henry IV. Ed. A. R. Humphreys. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1966.
    17. King Henry V. Ed. John H. Walter. 1954. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1970.
    18. The First Part of King Henry VI. Ed. Andrew S. Cairncross. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. / Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1962.
    19. The Second Part of King Henry VI. Ed. Andrew S. Cairncross. 1957. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1969.
    20. The Third Part of King Henry VI. Ed. Andrew S. Cairncross. 1964. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982.
    21. King Richard II. Ed. Antony Hammond. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1981.
    22. King Henry VIII. Ed. R. A. Foakes. 1957. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968.
    23. Antony and Cleopatra. Ed. M. R. Ridley. 1954. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1975.
    24. Coriolanus. Ed. Philip Brockbank. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1976.
    25. Hamlet. Ed. Harold Jenkins. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982.
    26. Julius Caesar. Ed. T. S. Dorsch. 1955. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1973.
    27. King Lear. Ed. Kenneth Muir. 1952. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1975.
    28. Macbeth. Ed. Kenneth Muir. 1951. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1979.
    29. Othello. Ed. M. R. Ridley. 1958. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1979.
    30. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Brian Gibbons. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1980.
    31. Timon of Athens. Ed. H. J. Oliver. 1959. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. / Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1965.
    32. Titus Andronicus. Ed. J. C. Maxwell. 1953. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. / Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1963.
    33. Troilus and Cressida. Ed. Kenneth Palmer. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982.
    34. Cymbeline. Ed. J. M. Nosworthy. 1955. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1974.
    35. Pericles. Ed. F. D. Hoeniger. 1963. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1979.
    36. The Tempest. Ed. Frank Kermode. 1954. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1979.
    37. The Winter’s Tale. Ed. J. H. P. Pafford. 1963. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1971.

  5. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works: The Text and Order of the First Folio with Quarto Variants & a Choice of Modern Readings Noted Marginally: To Which are added Pericles and the First Quartos of Six of the Plays with Three Plays of Doubtful Authorship: Also the Poems according to the Original Quartos and Octavos. 4 vols. Ed. Herbert Farjeon. 1929. Introduction by Ivor Brown. London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, 1953:
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The First of Four Volumes: Comedies, with the Prefatory Matter from the First Folio, the Note on the Text by Herbert Farjeon and a New Introduction by Ivor Brown.
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Second of Four Volumes: Histories, and Troylus and Cressida, According to its Placing in the First Folio.
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Third of Four Volumes: Tragedies, and Pericles. With Three Plays of Doubtful Authorship Namely: Two Noble Kinsmen; Edward III; Sir Thomas Moore.
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Last of Four Volumes: Poems: Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Sonnets; A Lovers Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrime; Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke; The Phoenix and the Turtle.

  6. Craig, W. J., ed. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. 1905. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1949.

  7. Evans, G. Blakemore, ed. The Riverside Shakespeare. General Introduction by Harry Levin. With Notes and Introductions by Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Marie Edel & Charles H. Shattuck. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.

  8. Shakespeare, William. The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete. Ed. A. L. Rowse. 3 vols. 1978. 2nd ed. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1979.
    1. The Annotated Shakespeare: Complete Works Illustrated. Comedies
    2. The Annotated Shakespeare: Complete Works Illustrated. Histories and Poems
    3. The Annotated Shakespeare: Complete Works Illustrated. Tragedies and Romances

  9. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works. Ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

  10. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, with a Life of the Poet by Charles Symmons, D. D., A Glossary and Fifty Embellishments. London: Ramboro Books, 1993.

  11. Greenblatt, Stephen, & Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard & Katharine Eisaman Maus, ed. The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett & William Montgomery. 1986 & 1988. With an Essay on the Shakespearean Stage by Andrew Gurr. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997.

  12. The Handy-Volume Shakspeare. Ed. Q. D. 13 vols. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., n.d.

  13. Brooke, C. F. Tucker, ed. The Shakespeare Apocrypha: Being a Collection of Fourteen Plays Which Have Been Ascribed to Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
    1. Arden of Faversham
    2. Locrine
    3. Edward III
    4. Mucedorus
    5. Sir John Oldcastle
    6. Thomas Lord Cromwell
    7. The London Prodigal
    8. The Puritan
    9. A Yorkshire Tragedy
    10. The Merry Devil of Edmonton
    11. Fair Em
    12. The Two Noble Kinsmen
    13. The Birth of Merlin
    14. Sir Thomas More

  14. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeares Werke in Fünf Bänden. Trans. August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Dorothea und Ludwig Tieck, & Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin. Rev. ed. 1908-1923. 5 vols. Campe Klassiker. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Kampe, 1966.

  15. Comedies:

  16. Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night or, What You Will. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1901. New York: Dover, 1964.

  17. Tragedies:

  18. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1877. 2 vols. New York: Dover, 1963.

  19. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet: The First Quarto, 1603. Ed. Albert B. Weiner. Foreword by Hardin Craig. New York: Barrons’ Educational Series, Inc., 1962.

  20. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1880. New York: Dover, 1963.

  21. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1873. New York: Dover, 1963.

  22. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1871. New York: Dover, 1963.

  23. Romances:

  24. [Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published According to the True Original Copies. The Third Impression. And Unto this Impression is added Seven Playes, never before printed in Folio, viz, Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Ld Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. 1664. London: Methuen, 1905. “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” pp. 1-20.]

  25. [Allen, Michael J. B., & Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntingdon Library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. “The Play of Pericles Prince of Tyre,” pp.751-86]

  26. [Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. “Pericles Prynce of Tyre,” pp. 1169-1200.]

  27. [Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. “A Diplomatic Reprint of ‘Pericles’,” pp. 2102-21; Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare. A Textual Companion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. “Pericles,” pp. 130-31 & 556-92

  28. Shakespeare, William. The Winter’s Tale. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1898. New York: Dover, 1964.

  29. Shakespeare, William, & John Fletcher. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Ed. N. W. Bawcutt. 1977. The New Penguin Shakespeare. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

  30. Sonnets & Poems:

  31. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. Martin Seymour-Smith. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1963.

  32. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. W. G. Ingram & Theodore Redpath. 1964. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978.

  33. Shakespeare, William. The Poems. Ed. F. T. Prince. 1960. The Arden Shakespeare. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1976.

  34. Secondary:

  35. Boyce, Charles, & David White, ed. The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More. Foreword by Terry Hands. A Roundtable Press Book. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

  36. Clarke, Mary Cowden. The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines. 1850-1852. 3 vols. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., n.d.

  37. Duffin, Ross W. Shakespeare’s Songbook. Foreword by Stephen Orgel. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

  38. Gordon, Giles, ed. Shakespeare Stories. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982.

  39. Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2004.

  40. Greg, W. W. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.

  41. Halliday, F. E. A Shakespeare Companion. 1952. Penguin Shakespeare Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.

  42. Halliday, F. E. The Cult of Shakespeare. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1957.

  43. Hotson, Leslie. The First Night of Twelfth Night. 1954. London: Mercury Books, 1961.

  44. Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. 1975. Revised Edition with a New Postscript. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

  45. Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives: New Edition. 1970. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

  46. Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber, 2005.

  47. Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

  48. Shapiro, James. 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. London: Faber, 2015.

  49. Sher, Antony. Year of the King. London: Methuen, 1985.

  50. Spencer, T. J. B., ed. Shakespeare’s Plutarch: The Lives of Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marcus Antonius, and Coriolanus in the translation of Sir Thomas North. Peregrine Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.

  51. Spurgeon, Caroline. Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us. 1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

  52. Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. London: The Hogarth Press, 1990.