Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays : The Textual Controversy Paperback / softback
by John Payne Collier, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton, Thomas Duffus Hardy
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama series
Paperback / softback
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The editor and forger John Payne Collier (1789-1883) claimed to have discovered a Second Folio of Shakespeare which had been 'corrected' in a mid-seventeenth-century hand.
He published this catalogue of the emendations, including his commentary on them, in 1852.
Collier then presented the so-called 'Perkins Folio' to the Duke of Devonshire, whose successor allowed it to be loaned in 1859 to the British Museum, where a thorough examination exposed it as a forgery.
A storm of controversy followed and three of the key documents in the debate, all published in 1860, are also reissued here: 'An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere Folio, 1632' by Nicholas Hamilton (d.1915), assistant keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum; Collier's attempt to refute Hamilton's findings; and 'A Review of the Present State of the Shakespearian Controversy' by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-78).
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:872 pages, 2 Plates, color
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/05/2013
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- ISBN:9781108059459
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:872 pages, 2 Plates, color
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/05/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108059459
