Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays - The Textual Controversy (Paperback)

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).

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	John Payne Collier • Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton • Thomas Duffus Hardy
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 49mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	872
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-05945-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
LSN:	1-108-05945-7
Barcode:	9781108059459

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