Texts of Shakespeare's plays taken from a wide range of pre-twentieth century sources, particularly valuable for comparing various versions and tracing the history of Shakespeare's reception.
Contains the following: eleven major editions from the first folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1853-6 twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems selected apocrypha and related works. more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's acting edition of Shakespeare's plays (1774).