Shakespeare - Bibliographie

1894, 1895 und 1896.

(Mit Nachträgen zur Bibliographie in Band I-XXX des Jahrbuchs).

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Albert Cohn.

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I. ENGLAND und AMERIKA.

a. TEXTE.

A NEW VARIORUM EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Horace Howard FURNESS. Vol. X. A Midsommer Nights Dream. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. London: 10 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1895. 8°.

Date of composition.

pp. xxxiv, 357.

Text of the First Folio. "Every word, I might say almost every letter, has been collated
with the original' (p. 345).
Appendix. The text.
Source of the plot, including the texts of
Golding's translation of Ovid's story of Pyramus and Thisbe, 1567; I. Thomson's 'A
new Sonet of Pyramus and Thisbio' from C. Robinson's Handfull of pleasant delights
1584; the scenes wherein Oberon appears in Rob. Greene's The Scottish Historie of
James IV... Intermixed with a pleasand Comedie, presented by Oberam King of Fayeries,
printed in 1598; and various extracts from Yong's translation of the Diana of George of
Montemayor; Chaucer's Faerie Queen; Percy's Reliques, etc. Duration of the action.
· English criticisms. German criticisms. Notable performances.
Costume. Peter
Squentz. John Spencer. The Fairie Queen.

The Atlantic

Reviewed: The Saturday Review. London. June 15, 1895 (Vol. 79, p. 794).
Monthly. Boston, Mass. August 1895 (Vol. 76, p. 270). The Nation. New York.
Aug. 1, 1895 (Vol. 61, p. 84), by G. L. Kittredge. The Athenæum. London. No. 3538,
August 17, 1895, p. 235. Poet-Lore. Boston. Vol. VII (1895), p. 628, by P.

THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. Edited from the original texts by H. Arthur DOUBLEDAY, with the assistance of T. Gregory FOSTER and Robert ELSON. (The Whitehall Shakspere). Vol. III-VII. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1894-96. Imp. 16o.

THE HAMNET SHAKSPERE.

Part VIII. The tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. According to the First Folio (spelling modernized), etc. Greenock: William Hutchison, 1890. 8o. Part IX. The tragedy of Othello. According, etc., ut supra. Ib. id. 1891. 8o. Part X. The Merry Wives of Windsor, according to the First Folio (spelling modernized). With lists of such of the emphasis-capitals of Shakspere in this play, as were omitted by each of the Second, Third, and Fourth Folios, and of new emphasis-capitals shown by it in each of these. Also introduction, including remarks on the running-titles and paging of the First Folio. By Allan Park PATON. Greenock: Wi. Hutchison, 1896. 8°. pp. xliv, 72. Cf. Jahrbuch XVI, 432, and XVIII, 301.

THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE. With introductions by Edward DOWDEN. London: Cassel and Co. 4°. [Cf. Jahrbuch XXIV, 215. XXVII, 322]. King Henry the Eighth. With twelve illustrations by COMPLETE WORKS. With a glossary by W. J. CRAIG. York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1892. 12o. pp. 1264.

WORKS. First group

Sir J. D. LINTON. 1892. (Oxford edition). New

seven comedies: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Winter's Tale, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Merchant of Venice. Second group seven of the histories: King John, K. Richard II, K. Henry IV (first part), K. Henry IV (second part), K. Henry v, K. Richard III, K. Henry VIII. (The Ariel edition). New York: George P. Putnam's Sons, 1892-93. Pp. iii, 156; iii, 166; iii, 197; ii, 142; ii, 158; ii, 150; iv, 168; ii, 167; iii, 179; iii, 176; iii, 190; ii, 192; iii, 239; iii, 197.

WORKS. Edited by William Aldis WRIGHT. (The Cambridge Shakespeare). Edition de luxe. 40 vol. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893-1895. Roy. 8o.

Contents.

2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Vol. 1. The Tempest.
3. The Merry Wives of
Windsor. 4. Measure for Measure. 5. The Comedy of Errors. -6. Much Ado about
Nothing. -7. Love's Labour's Lost. 8. A Midsummer Night's Dream. 9. The Mer-
chant of Venice. 10. As You Like It. 11. The Taming of the Shrew. 12. All's
Well that Ends Well. 13. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. 14. The Winter's
Tale. 15. King John. 16. King Richard II. - 17. 18. King Henry IV, first and second
part. 19. King Henry v. 20. 21. 22. King Henry VI, first, second, and third part.
23. King Henry VIII. 24. King Richard III. 25. Troilus and Cressida.
Coriolanus. 27. Titus Andronicus. 28. Romeo and Juliet. 29. Timon of Athens.
30. Julius Cæsar. -31. Macbeth. -32. Hamlet. 33. King Lear. 34. Othello, the
Moor of Venice. 35. Antony and Cleopatra. 36. Cymbeline. 37. Pericles.
Poems. 39. 40. Reprints of the early Quartos. (500 copies printed).

WORKS. Edited by Charles KNIGHT.

1894. Post 8°.

Hearth and Home Library.

WORKS.

26.

38.

London: George Routledge and Sons,

Edited by Charles KNIGHT. With 64 illustrations. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1894. Cr. 8°.

6 vol.

WORKS. With life and glossary, etc. (The Landsdowne Pocket Shakespeare).
London: Fred. Warne and Co., 1894. 32°.

WORKS. Dicks's complete edition. With 37 illustrations and a memoir. London: J. Dicks, 1894. 8°. pp. xii, 1007.

The single plays issued separately as parts of Dicks's Standard Plays. No dates. WORKS. Edited by H. STAUNTON, etc. 6 vol. London: George Routledge and Sons [1894]. 8o.

WORKS. Edited, with prefaces, glossaries, and brief notes, by Israel GOLLANCZ. (The Temple edition). 40 vol. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1894-1896. 16o. Portrait (from First Folio). Titlepage designed by Walter CRANE, frontispieces in photogravure, and vignettes. (New York: Macmillan and Co.).

The text is that of the 'Cambridge Shakespeare'. The prefaces give the history of the play, date of first edition, date of composition, the sources, the music, later versions, etc.

Contents.

1. The Tempest. 2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 3. The Merry Wives of Windsor.
4. Measure for Measure. 5. The Comedy of Errors. 6. Much Ado about Nothing.
-7. Love's Labour's Lost. 8. A Midsu miner Night's Dream. 9. The Merchant of
Venice. 10. As You Like It. 11. The Taming of the Shrew. 12. All's Well that
Ends Well. 13. Twelfth Night. 14. The Winter's Tale. 15. King John.
Richard II. 17. 18. K. Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. 19. K. Henry V.

and Cressida.

16. K. 20. 21. 22. K. Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3. 23. K. Richard III. 24. K. Henry VIII. - 25. Troilus 26. Coriolanus. 27. Titus Andronicus. 28. Romeo and Juliet. 29. 30. Julius Cæsar. 31. Macbeth. 32. Hamlet. 33. K. Lear. 35. Antony and Cleopatra. 36. Cymbeline. 37. Pericles. 38. Venus 39. The Rape of Lucrece. 40. The Sonnets.

For a Review of vol. 1-5 cf. The Athenæum. London. No. 3483, July 28, 1894, p. 139.

WORKS. Edited by William George CLARK and William Aldis WRIGHT. (The Globe edition). London: Macmillan and Co., and New York, 1895. 8°. pp. viii, 1138.

The 'Globe Shakespeare' was first printed in 1864. Reprinted January and October 1865, 1866, 1867, 1871. Glossary added 1873, 1874, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1881, 1884, 1887. New glossary added 1891. The edition of 1895 is a reprint of the one of 1891.

WORKS. New edition. (The Victoria edition). 3 vol. [Vol. I. Comedies. II. Histories. III. Tragedies]. London: Macmillan and Co. [1895]. cr. 8°.

WORKS. Edited by E. K. CHAMBERS. (The Arden Shakespeare). Boston: Heath and Co., 1895.

English Classics.

6 vol.

WORKS. [With reproductions of Frank HOWARD's illustrations]. (The Ariel edition). 40 vol. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1895-96. 16o.

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In progress. Each play forming a single volume. Vol. 38. Poems; vol. 39. Sonnets; vol
40. Glossary and index. Cf. Jahrbuch XXIX/XXX, 325.
WORKS.

Edited by C. KNIGHT. (The People Shakespeare). London: George Routledge and Sons, 1895. 8°. pp. 770.

WORKS. (With a memoir and a glossary). (The Bedford Shakespeare). 12 vol. London: Fred. Warne and Co., 1896. 12o.

Cf. Jahrbuch XXVII, 324.

MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES, & POEMS. [With glossarial side-notes]. 12 vol. London: George Newnes, 1896. 8° min.

Contents.

Vol. I. 4 ff. and pp. 354: The Tempest. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Merry Wives
of Windsor. Measure for Measure. Vol. II. 4 ff. and pp. 333: The Comedy of Errors.
Much Ado about Nothing. Love's Labour's Lost. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Vol. III. pp. 380: The Merchant of Venice. As You Like It. The Taming of the Shrew.
All's Well that Ends Well. Vol. IV. pp. 293: Twelfth Night. The Winter's Tale.
King John. Vol. V. pp. 328: King Richard 11. King Henry IV, parts 1 and 2.
Vol. VI. pp. 336: King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts 1 and 2.
King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII.
Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Titus Andronicus.
Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Cæsar.

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Vol. VII. pp. 368: Vol. VIII pp. 345: Vol. IX. pp. 298: Romeo and Vol. X. pp. 358: Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear. Vol. XI. pp. 382: Othello. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Vol XII. pp. 334: Pericles. Poems.

Called the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare on the paper wrappers, accompanying each volume; but that title is not found in the volumes themselves. MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES AND POEMS. 12 vol. Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1896. 16o.

WORKS.

With glossarial index, etc. (The Avon edition). 12 vol. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ld., 1896.

A cheap reissue. First ed. published in 1886. Cf. Jahrbuch XXII, 287; XXVII, 325. THE ROYAL SHAKSPERE. [Delius's text, introduction and life by F. J. FURNIVALL]. Illustrated people's edition. London: Cassel and Co. 8°.

In progress. To be published in weekly numbers. No. 1, December, 1896. First edition published in 1880-85. Cf. Jahrbuch XVI, 432; XVIII, 302; XXII, 286; and XXVII, 325.

SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES, AND SONNETS. Edited by W. J. LOFTIE. (The Savoy edition). London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896. 8. pp. 1114. WORKS. Edited and prefaced by W. J. LOFTIE. (The Savoy edition). New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1896. 8°. pp. 1048.

WORKS. With introductory remarks and notes, critical, general and explanatory. By Samuel PHELPS. Illustrations. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1896. Roy. 8o. Originally published in 1852 sqq. A reissue in 1882. Cf. Jahrbuch XX, 356.

WORKS. (The Falstaff edition). London: Bliss, Sands and Co., 1896. Roy. 8°. double col. pp. iv, 1100.

· (Preface).

'For the most part the text of Delius has been followed". WORKS. Edited with introductions and notes, by William J. ROLFE. With engravings. London: W. B. Clive [1896]. 16°.

In progress.
Reissue of an earlier edition with new titlepages. The following are published:
As You Like It. pp. 208. King John. pp. 190. Julius Cæsar. pp. 198. King
Lear. pp. 267. Merchant of Venice. pp. 173. Midsummer Night's Dream. pp. 195.
Much Ado. pp. 178. Richard II.
Tempest. pp. 155. Twelfth Night.
Winter's Tale. pp. 220.

PP. 171.

Pp. 227.

WORKS. With life, glossary, etc. Prepared from the texts of the First Folio, the Quartos, and compared with recent commentators. By the editor of the 'Chandos Classics'. (The Victorian edition). London: Fred. Warne and Co., 1896. 8°. pp. xvi, 1136.

WORKS. With life, glossary, notes, etc. Edited by the editor of the Chandos Classics'. (The Universal edition). London: Fred. Warne and Co., 1896. 8°. pp. xii, 1126.

The text of the Victorian and the Universal editions is that of the First Folio and the Quartos, corrected and in modernized language. Venus and Adonis and Lucrece have the text of the editions of 1593 and 1594, the Sonnets the text and the sequence of the ed. of 1609. After Henry VIII, the plays are differently arranged from the Folio of 1623.

THE PLAYS of William Shakespeare. Edited by T. KEIGHTLEY. [New edition. With portraits of the leading actors of the day]. 4 vol. London: J. S. Virtue and Co., [1892-94]. 8°.

THE PLAYS Of William Shakespeare. Edited by C. E. FLOWER. (Memorial Theatre edition). 8 vol. Birmingham: Midland Educational Co. [1895]. 8o. Commenced in 1880, each play was and still is published separately; they present an expurgated text. Cf. Jahrbuch XXVI, 109 and XXVII, 322. London. The Athenæum. No. 3537, Aug. 10, 1895, p. 202. SELECT PLAYS of Shakespeare. (Clarendon Press Series). Hamlet. Edited by W. G. CLARK and W. A. WRIGHT. New [third?] edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890. 8°. min.

Reviewed: The Saturday Review. London. No. 2040. Dec. 1, 1894 (vol. 78, p. 602): Another specimen of Oxford editing.

SELECT PLAYS of Shakespeare. (Clarendon Press Series). The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth. Edited by William Aldis WRIGHT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891. 8°. min. pp. xlviii, 176.

SELECT PLAYS of Shakespeare. (Clarendon Press Series). Much Ado About Nothing. Edited by William Aldis WRIGHT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894. 8°. min. pp. xi, 189.

Reviewed: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, etc. Braunschweig. Band XCIV (1895), p. 332, by J[ulius] Z[UPITZA].

THE LIFE AND BEAUTIES of Shakspeare, from the approved selections of W. DODD, etc. Philadelphia: National Association for publishing Musical and Literary Works for the Blind, 1870. 4o. pp. 156.

Printed in embossed type.

SHAKESPEARE'S TWILIGHTS. [A compilation of passages from Shakespeare, describing the beauties of nature, etc.]. Compiled by S. F. PRICE, illustrated by W. P. CHALONER and H. P. BARNES. Boston, Mass.: D. Lothrop and Co. [1892]. 8°.

GREAT SPEECHES from Shakespeare's plays. With notes and a life of Shakespeare, edited by W. Scott DALGLEICH. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1893. 12o. Pp. 158.

Cf. Jahrbuch XXVII, 333.

[SHAKESPEARE FOR RECITATION... Arranged for the use of schools by John MILLARD. 1894]. Cf. Jahrbuch XXIX/XXX, 326.

Reviewed: Beiblatt zur Anglia. Hallo. Band VII, No. VII, Novemb. 1896, p. 213, by
L. WURTH.

THE SHAKESPERE BIRTHDAY RECORD.

London: H. J. Drane (1894). 16o.

Selected and arranged by T. B. REID.

GEMS from Shakespere. A book for registering the birthdays of one's friends... Selected and arranged by G. GARRETT. London: H. J. Drane (1894). 16°. pp. 126. With 131 drawings by Edwin A. ABBEY, New York: Harper Bros., 1895. Imp. 8°.

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE'S COMEDIES. reproduced in photogravure. 4 vol. (London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.).

BELL'S READERS' SHAKESPEARE. Condensed, connected and emphasized for school, college, parlour, and platform. By David Charles BELL. In 3 vol. Vol. I. The historical plays. Vol. II. The tragedies and one romantic play: The Tempest. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895-96. 8°. Vol. I. pp. 496. Vol. II. pp. 471. (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co.).

Vol. III not yet published.

THE CHILDREN'S SHAKESPEARE. Edited by E. NESBIT. Illustrated by Frances Brundage, M. BOWLEY, and others. Coloured plates. London: R. Tuck and Sons, 1895. Roy. 8°. pp. 96.

ENGLISH HISTORICAL PLAYS. By Shakespeare, Marlowe, Peel, Heywood, Fletcher, and Ford. Arranged for acting as well as for reading by T. DONOVAN. 2 vol. London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. 8°. pp. ix, 467; 468.

Reviewed: The Saturday Review. London. No. 2146. Decemb. 12, 1896. (Vol. 82, p. 631).
The Athenæum. London. No. 3617, Feb. 20, 1897, p. 255.

The plays printed as parts of the Junior School Shakespeare', the Warwick Shakespeare, Arnold's School Shakespeare', the Pitt Press Shakespeare for Schools', or under similar headings, have been entered in their alphabetical order in the following division.

AS YOU LIKE IT. With introduction and notes by Lionel W. LYDE. London: W. G. Blackie and Son, 1894. 16°.

Junior School Shakespeare.

AS YOU LIKE IT. Edited by J. C. SMITH. London: W. G. Blackie and Son, 1894. 12o. pp. 178.

The Warwick Shakespeare. [Suitable for senior scholars].

AS YOU LIKE IT. Edited by S. E. WINBOLT. London: Edward Arnold, 1895. 12o.
Arnold's School Shakespeare. [General editor, J. Churton COLLINS].

AS YOU LIKE IT. New York: American Book Co., 1895. 8°.
Eclectic English Classics.

pp. 102.

AS YOU LIKE IT. With introduction by B. WENDELL, notes by William L. PHELPS. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. 12o.

Longman's English Classics.

As You LIKE IT. Edited by Richard Grant WHITE.

Mifflin and Co., 1896. 16".

Riverside Literary Series, no. 93.

Boston: Houghton,

AS YOU LIKE IT. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896.
Riverside School Library.