The Shakespeare Apocrypha; Being a Collection of Fourteen Plays Which Have Been Ascribed to Shakespeare: Edited With Notes and Bibliography (Classic Reprint)
(The ambition of the editor ias been to provide an accurat...)
The ambition of the editor ias been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all those plays which can, without entire absurdity, be included in the doubtfully Shakespearian class. A similar work to 3omprise the first thirteen dramas in this book, in addition toT he Arraign ment of Paris, The Death of Studey, and The Siege of Antwerp appears, indeed, on the list of suggested publications of theN ewS hakspere Society (T rans actions, 1874, p. 4), but it did not get beyond the stage of projection. Since the days of Malone, only three of the works before us Arden ofF ever -sham, The Two Noble Kinsmen, andS ir Thomas More have appeared in Englishspeaking countries in what can at all justly be termed independently edited texts. Tolerable versions of four others have been published by Germans in editions now practically unprocurable. As regards the other seven plays, no real attempt at purification of the text or collation of the early editions has been made, if made at all, for more than two centuries, and in the case of Sir John Oldcastle, it has remained for this book to give the very first reprint of what is most unmistakably the only reliable and uncorrupted version. Thus consider able and important passages appear here for the first time since 1600. In the preparation of the body of the text, the main object has been to give a faithful reproduction of the most authoritative edition of each play; that is, of the earliest, except in the rare instances where a later edition is demonstrably truer to the authors manuscript. Supplementary passages are printed, within brackets, from the earliest edition which contains them. Where a variant or an jmendation has appeared inevitable, it has been adopted, but the reading of the diti princeps has invariably been given in the footnotes. Great pains have been taken it i
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