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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare

Print Book, English, 1818
Whittingham's edition View all formats and editions
Printed by C. Whittingham, for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row, London, Chiswick, 1818
Bibliographies
7 v. : ill., 1 port. (wood engravings) ; 12 cm. (8vo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure
v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well
v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II
v. 4. King Henry IV ; King Henry V ; King Henry VI, parts 1-2
v. 5. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens
v. 6. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus
v. 7. Pericles ; King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Each play with an individual title page reading "from the Chiswick Press" dated between 1816 and 1818. Plays with separate pagination and signatures
With Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeare, written expressly for this edition in 1814, revised and altered in March 1818 by John Britton, and Johnson's preface in v. 1. Glossarial index in v. 7