Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays

The Textual Controversy
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-108-05945-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 872 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1388 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collier, John Payne

Hamilton, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage

Hardy, Thomas Duffus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays; An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript corrections in Collier's annotated Shakespeare; Mr Collier's reply to Mr Hamilton's 'Inquiry'; A review of the present state of the Shakespearian controversy.