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The plays of William Shakspeare : in twenty-one volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

Print Book, English, 1803
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Printed for J. Johnson; R. Baldwin; H.L. Gardner; W., J. and J. Richardson; J. Nichols and Son; F. and C. Rivington; T. Payne ; R. Faulder; G. and J. Robinson; W. Lowndes; G. Wilkie; J. Scatcherd; T. Egerton; J. Walker; W. Clarke and Son; J. Barker and Son; D. Ogilvy and Son; Cuthell and Martin; R. Lea; P. Macqueen; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen and Co.; T. Kay; J. Deighton; J. White; W. Miller; Vernor and Hood; D. Walker; B. Crosby and Co.; Longman and Rees; Cadell and Davies; T. Hurst; J. Harding; R.H. Evans; S. Bagster; J. Mawman; Blacks and Parry; R. Bent; J. Badcock; J. Asperne; and T. Ostell, London, 1803
21 v. : ill., 1 port., facsim. (engravings, wood engravings) ; 22 cm. (8vo)
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v. 1-3. Prolegomena
v. 4. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Midsummer-night's dream
v. 5. Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night
v. 6. Much ado about nothing ; Measure for measure
v. 7. Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice
v. 8. As you like it ; All's well that ends well
v. 9. Taming of a shrew ; Winter's tale
v. 10. Macbeth ; King John
v. 11. King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1
v. 12. King Henry IV, part 2 ; King Henry V
v. 13. King Henry VI, parts 1-2
v. 14. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III
v. 15. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 16. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar
v. 17. Antony and Cleopatra ; King Lear
v. 18. Hamlet ; Cymbeline
v. 19. Timon of Athens ; Othello
v. 20. Romeo and Juliet ; Comedy of errors
v. 21. Titus Andronicus ; Pericles
Printer information from colophon; "London" follows address
Each volume with a half-title and title page; each play with a divisional title
With Some account of the life by Rowe, the prefaces of Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson, Capell, Mason, and Malone in v. 1; and Farmer's essay in v. 2. Addenda and a glossarial index in v. 21