Shakespeare and Biographical Notes COMPILED BY AND LILLA WEED CALIFORNIA WELLESLEY COLLEGE 1913 This bibliography is an enlargement and revision of that Copyright, 1913, by Katharine Lee Bates. VIMU SUBURBAN PRESS, NATICK, MASS. CONTENTS Shakespeare's Plays, arranged in conjectural order of compo- sition, with all known dates of first production, of registry and printing, and with references to the most helpful and accessible books on each play. Pp. 5-11. The Doubtful Plays, with data, as above, for fifteen, and with a corresponding list of lost plays. Pp. 12-15. Shakespeare's Poems, with all known dates of registry and printing, together with notes and references. Pp. 16-18. Shakespeare Editions, comprising the seventeenth century folios, all important eighteenth century editions and the most valuable of the complete editions since issued. Pp. 19- 272618 NOTE This brief syllabus is prepared for the use of an undergraduate class. More advanced students would do well to avail themselves of the fuller bibliographies on pages 21-22. The place of publication of any book listed may be assumed to be London unless otherwise given. The following abbreviations are employed: ac.-acted. assoc.-association. B. M.-British Museum. btw.-between. mod.-modern. n. d.-no date. D. N. B.-Dictionary of Na- orig. original. tional Biography. ed.-edited, editor. pts.-parts. Eliz.-Elizabethan. pr. printed. E. E. T. S.-Early Text Society. Q.-Quarto. repr.-reprint. Eng.-English. ien. ex.-extra. reprod.-reproduction. Engl. Stud.-Englische Stud- rptd.-reprinted. exc.-except. F-Folio. facs.-facsimile. Harl. Harleian. introd.-introduction. Jahrb.-Jahrbuch. lang.-language. lib.-library. rev.-revised, revision. ser.-series. soc.-society. S. R.-Registers of the Com pany of Stationers. tr.-translated, translation. v.-volume. UNIV. OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS NOTE: The following thirty-six plays, here arranged in conjectural order of composition, with all known dates of first production, of registry and printing, and with references to the most helpful and accessible books on each play, are those collected in the First Folio. The ? prefixed indicates a likelihood that the play is Shakespeare's only in part. Dates in full-faced type designate quartos that have been reproduced in The Shakspere Quarto Facsimiles (Griggs and Praetorius, 188089). The dates on a few of these quartos, viz. the Roberts quarto (1600) of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Roberts quarto (1600) of The Merchant of Venice, the Pavier quarto (1608) of Henry V and the second Butter quarto (1608) of King Lear appear to be spurious, all these having been issued, with six others, in Pavier's volume of ten collected Shakespeare plays, 1619. (See, under Bibliography, Greg and Pollard.) ? Titus Andronicus. Ac. Jan. 23, 1594. S. R. Feb. 6, 1594. Pr. 1594, 1600, 1611. Robertson, J. M. Did Shakespeare write Titus Andronicus? 1905. ? I Henry VI. Ac. Mar. 3, 1592. ? Ş. R. Nov. 8, 1623. Pr. F. 1623. ? 2 Henry VI. (Rev. of The Contention, pr. 1594, 1600, 1619.) Pr. F. 1623. ? 3 Henry VI. (Rev. of The True Tragedy, pr. 1595, 1600, 1619.) The Authorship of the Second and Third Parts of A Study toward the Methods of Revision: Henry VI, M. A. Thesis, Wellesley College, June, 1911. |