Shakespeare´s Editors, 1623 to the Twentieth Century
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Excerpt from Shakespeare´s Editors, 1623 to the Twentieth Century: A Paper Read Before the Bibliographical Society, October 16, 1916 The folios of Beaumont and Fletcher´s Comedies and Tragedies appeared in 1647 and 1677 and in the eighteenth century three collected editions of these plays were published, the first being issued by Tonson in 1711, two years after Rowe´s edition of Shakespeare appeared. The publishers of these great dramatists made a fight to equal Shakespeare´s popularity for a time, but no other English playwriter than Shakespeare had a Variorum edition, nor any popular editions such as were produced by Tonson and Walker in 1734-5, which sold in thousands at the theatres, as well as being hawked about the country by colporteurs. Turning to my main subject, it is a story of strife I have to lay before you and few of the critics and editors whose characters we have to estimate but had something defamatory to say of their predecesssors. Some were positively libellous and only a minority were urbane. The embers of the fires only are visible in the fine Variorum of 1821, but in the original prefaces we see the fires burning vigorously. Two men stand out prominently for special offensiveness, viz., Bishop Warburton and George Steevens. The Folios. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Published according to the True Originall Copies. London, Printed by Isaac laggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623. The initial difficulty that the First Folio presents to us is the uncertainty as to who were its real editors. The two men who signed the Dedication and the Address "To the great variety of Readers" - John Heminge and Henry Condell seem naturally entitled to that honour. It is said, however, that as William Jaggard, Edward Blount, John Smethwick and William Aspley paid the piper they were entitled to call the tune, and that they did so. Edward Blount, as the most experienced of the four, probably had the arrangement of the printing under his care, but there does not seem any valid reason why credit should be taken away from Heminge and Condell, who hold so prominent a position in the preliminary pages of the book. 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.
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