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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare; with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected ..

Print Book, English, 1839
Hilliard, Gray, and Co., Boston, 1839
7 volumes illustrations, portraits 25 cm
9053271
v. 1. Life. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare [by J.P. Collier] Shakspere's will. Preface of the players [1623] Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing
v. 2. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
v. 3. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1
v. 4. Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
v. 5. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
v. 6. Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
v. 7. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
Edited by Oliver W.B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare," by Collier. Cf. "Advertisement, " Pref. to the 1836 ed. and J. Sherzer, American editions of Shakespeare (Modern Lang. Assoc. Publ., v. 22, p. 657-660)