Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays: the textual controversy

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...

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Main Authors: Collier, John Payne 1789-1883 (Author), Hamilton, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage -1915 (Author), Hardy, Thomas Duffus 1804-1878 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Series:Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
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Summary: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)
Item Description:This edition first published 1852-60
Physical Description:xxvi, 512, 155, 72, 75 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:1108059457
9781108059459

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