Originally delivered in November 1915 as a series of lectures at
the University of Cambridge, this close textual analysis of
Shakespeare overturned the conventional methods of Shakespearean
bibliography. In this careful study, Pollard, a bibliographer and
literary scholar, called into question the long-held assumption
that the early Quartos were of little bibliographical value because
of the errors, mis-spellings and mis-lineations. By emphasizing the
efforts made to impede printing piracy in early modern England,
Pollard argued that the Quartos are much closer to Shakespeare's
manuscripts than previous scholarship had allowed. Pollard, along
with J. Dover Wilson, W. W. Greg and R. B. McKerrow, was
instrumental in establishing the theoretical framework of New
Bibliography, and on its publication the book was greeted with what
is described in the introduction as 'friendly controversy'. First
published in 1915, the book was revised for republication in 1920.
This reissue is of the 1967 reprint.
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