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SHAKESPEARE’S FOLIOS, QUARTOS, MAJOR EDS., PRINT CULTURE

• Online “Reading” Editions in Modern Type

• Shakespeare Reading Texts (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE)
• MIT Shakespeare (Jeremy Hylton/MIT’s The Tech)
• Open Source Shakespeare (George Mason U)
• Wikisource transcription of the Yale Shakespeare
• The Oxford Shakespeare, 1914 (Bartleby.com)
• See Bibliography for references to print editions

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• Dictionaries and Concordances

• These resources are also listed on the Main Links Page, but they are convenient on this page as well.

• Shakespeare’s Words: a Dictionary (David & Ben Crystal)
• Shakespeare Glossary by C. T. Onions (Perseus Project)
• Concordance of Shakespeare’s Works (Shakespeare Network)

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• Large Repositories of Folios, Quartos, & Editions

• Historic Shakespeare Editions (Shakedsetc.org) | Folios & Quartos
• Shakespeare Folios and Quartos (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
• Shakespeare in Print: Quartos (Shakespeare Documented)
• Early Modern English Drama: Other Dramatists (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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• Original Folios from the 1623 First to the 1700 “Fifth”

• Shakespeare 1623 First Folio (Folger Library)
• Shakespeare 1632 Second Folio (Miami U, Ohio)
• Shakespeare 1663-64 Third Folio (Miami U, Ohio)
• Shakespeare 1685 Fourth Folio (Miami U, Ohio)
• Shakespeare 1700 “Fifth” Folio (Shakedsetc.org/IASEMS)

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• Major or Noteworthy Editions Late 1600s-1800

• Nicholas Rowe’s Shakespeare, 1709-10 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | TOC
• Pope’s The Works of Shakespear , 6 vols. 1723-25 (Internet Archive)
  • v. 1 Com. | 2 Com. | 3 Hist. | 4 Hist. | 5 Trag. | 6 Trag. | TOC
    • Pope’s Shakespeare, Vol. 1 only, 1725 (U-Victoria/Brandeis)
    • Theobald’s 1726 critical essay, “Shakespeare Restored ….” (Google)
    • On Pope’s Shakespeare (Time’s Pencil)
• Pope’s The Works of … Shakespear, 10 vols. 1728 (Internet Archive)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | v. 9 | v. 10 | TOC
• L. Theobald’s Shakespeare in 7 Vols. 1733 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | TOC
• Lewis Theobald’s Works of Shakespeare, 2nd ed. 8 vols. 1740 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | TOC
• T. Hanmer’s Works of Shakespeare, in six volumes, 1744 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | TOC
• W. Warburton’s Works of Shakespeare, 8 vols., 1747 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | TOC
    • J. Upton’s Critical Observations on Shakespeare, 2nd ed. 1748 (HathiTrust)
    • T. Edwards, Canons of Criticism and Glossary 1748 (HathiTrust)
    • Ben. Heath’s Revisal of Shakespear’s Text 1765 (Google Books)
• Samuel Johnson’s Shakespeare in 8 Vols., 1765 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | TOC
• Charles Jennens’ Critical Editions of Major Plays, 1773-74 (Shakedetc.org)
  • Hamlet | Lear | Othello | Macbeth | J. Caesar (all from Internet Archive)
    • Charles Jennens: Handel’s Unknown Collaborator (The Telegraph)
• E. Malone’s Plays and Poems of W. Shakspeare, 10 vols., 1790 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1.i | v. 1.ii | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | v. 9 | v. 10 | TOC

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• Major or Noteworthy Editions 1801-1900

• Irving & Marshall’s Works of Shakespeare 1888-1890 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | TOC
• H. H. Furness’s New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare 1871-1913 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 Romeo & J | v. 2 Macbeth | v. 3 Hamlet Pt. 1 | v. 4 Hamlet Pt. 2 | v. 5 Lear | v. 6 Othello | v. 7 Merchant | v. 8 AYLI | v. 9 Tempest | v. 10 Midsummer | v. 11 Winter’s Tale | v. 12 Much Ado | v. 13 Twelfth N. | v. 14 Love’s LL | v. 15 Antony & Cleo | v. 16 Richard III | v. 17 J. Caesar | v. 18 Cymbeline | Macbeth rev. 1915 | Concordance to Poems
• Malone’s Plays & Poems of W. Shakespeare, 3rd ed. 1821 (Internet Archive)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | v. 9 | v. 10 | v. 11 | v. 12 |
  • v. 13 | v. 14 | v. 15 | v. 16 | v. 17 | v. 18 | v. 19 | v. 20 | v. 21 | TOC
• Edmond Malone’s Plays of Shakespeare, 1790/1827 (HathiTrust)

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• Major or Noteworthy Editions 1901-Present

• W. Aldis Wright’s Cambridge Shakespeare, 2nd ed. 9 vols.1891-93 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | v. 9 | TOC
    • v. 10 AYLI | v. 11 Shrew | v. 12 All’s Well | v. 13 Twelfth N. | v. 14 Winter’s T. | v. 15 King John | v. 16 Richard II | v. 17 Henry IV.1 | v. 18 Henry IV.2 | v. 20 Henry VI.1 | v. 21 Henry VI.2 | v. 22 Henry VI.3 | v. 23 Richard III | v. 24 Henry VIII | v. 25 Troilus & Cr. | v. 26 Coriolanus | v. 27 Titus | v. 28 Romeo & J. | v. 29 Timon | v. 30 Jul. Caes. | v. 32 Hamlet | v. 33 Lear | v. 34 Othello | v. 35 Ant. & Cleo. | v. 36 Cymbeline | v. 37 Pericles | v. 38 Poems & Son. | v. 39 Reprints | 19 & 31 not included
• Charlotte Porter & Helen Clarke’s Works of Shakespeare 1906 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | v. 9 | v. 10 | v. 11 | v. 12 | v. 13 | TOC
• The Arden Shakespeare First Series, Methuen 1899 – ~1924 (Arden) Orig. editor W. J. Craig, then R. H. Case.
  • All’s Well | Antony & Cleopatra | As You Like It | Comedy of Errors | Coriolanus |  Cymbeline | Hamlet | Henry IV, Pt. 1 | Henry IV, Pt. 2 | Henry V | Henry VI, Pt. I | Henry VI, Pt. II | Henry VI, Pt. III | Henry VIII | Julius Caesar | King John | King Lear | Love’s Labour’s Lost | Macbeth | Measure for Measure | Merchant of Venice | Merry Wives of Windsor | Midsummer Night’s Dream | Much Ado About Nothing | Othello | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Poems | Richard II | Richard III | Romeo and Juliet | Sonnets | Taming of a Shrew | Tempest | Timon of Athens | Titus Andronicus | Troilus and Cressida | Twelfth Night | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Winter’s Tale
• The Yale Shakespeare, 1st ed., 40 vols. Brooke et al. , 1917-28 (HathiTrust et al.)
  • *Plays followed by a “*” are accessed in Google Books or Internet Archive.
  • All’s Well That Ends Well | Antony and Cleopatra | As You Like It | The Comedy of Errors | Coriolanus | Cymbeline* | Hamlet* | 1 Henry 4 | 2 Henry 4 | Henry 5 | 1 Henry 6 | 2 Henry 6* | 3 Henry 6 | Henry 8 | Julius Caesar | King John | King Lear | Love’s Labour’s Lost* | Macbeth* | Measure for Measure | Merchant of Venice | Merry Wives of Windsor | Midsummer Night’s Dream | Much Ado About Nothing | Othello* | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Richard 2 | Richard 3 | Romeo and Juliet* | Taming of a Shrew | Tempest* | Timon of Athens | Titus Andronicus | Troilus and Cressida | Twelfth Night | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Winter’s Tale | Sonnets* | Venus and Adonis, etc. | Guide
    • See also Wikisource’s transcription of the Yale Shakespeare, which appears to have all 40 vols.

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• Major or Noteworthy Editions of Other Dramatists

• Chief Elizabethan Dramatists Excl. Shakespeare, W. Neilson 1911 (HathiTrust)
• Old Plays: A Continuation of Dodsley’s Collection, ed. Dilke 1816 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | TOC
• Beaumont & Fletcher 1679 Second Folio (Penn SU)
• Ben Jonson’s First Folio 1616 (Internet Archive)
  • The Other First Folio: Ben Jonson, 1616 (Folger Blog)
• P. Whalley’s Works of Ben Jonson, in seven volumes, 1756 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | TOC
• Marloweetc.org: A Scholarly Resource for All (Marloweetc.org)
• The Works of Marlowe, ed. C. F. Tucker Brooke, Oxford 1910 (Int. Archive)
• W. Pickering’s The Works of Christopher Marlowe, 1826 (HathiTrust)
  • v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | TOC

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• Adaptations of Individual Plays & Critical Studies

• Into the 18th Century: Shakespeare in Performance (Sh. Birthplace Trust)
• Rarely Performed Shakespeare 2015 (Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast)
• F. Kilbourne’s Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare 1906 (Hathitrust)
• Adaptations : Tempest, Mock Tempest, King Lear, ed. M. Summers (HathiTrust)
• Nahum Tate’s History of King Lear 1681 (Internet Archive) | (ISE)
• The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, Dryden & Davenant 1690 (Int. Archive)
• The Tempest; or, the enchanted island, Dryden 1670, Kemble 1807 (HathiTrust)

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• Print Culture, Technology & Publication History in Shakespeare’s Time and After

• History of Printing Timeline (APHA)
• The Age of Early Printing (Britannica)
• The Invention That Broke English Spelling (Rob Words/You Tube)
• Time’s Pencil: Shakespeare after First Folio (U of Oregon/Bovilsky)
• Editing Shakespeare (The New Antiquarian)
• J. Moxon’s Mechanick exercises, or, … the art of printing 1683/1896 (HathiTrust)
• What’s in a Text: Censorship and AYLI (American Shakespeare Center)
• Bookmaking: Making a Quarto (YouTube)
• Folio-Quarto-Octavo Diagram (Skaalr, Wikimedia Com.)
• Folio400 – Printing Shakespeare (Folio400)
• Graphic Design: Typography (Brian Slawson, U-Florida)

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