Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
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Overview:
- Title: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Year: 1632
- Publisher: Robert Allot
- Pages: 908
- Binding: unknown
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Tempest
- Notes:
- Second edition, a.k.a. "Second Folio". Some 1700 changes from the First Folio.
- Contents listed here are limited to the genre titles.
- Data from Wikipedia and from The Folger Shakespeare Library. Spelling of titles taken from the facsimile editions online at Internet Shakespeare Editions. "Tragedie of Hamlet" has been modernized to "Tragedy of Hamlet", but Macbeth is still a "Tragedie".
- Verification that this edition kept the same formal title as the First Folio comes from the title page on The Holloway Pages.
- Christie's Auction House: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression. Edited by John Heminge and Henry Condell. Printed by Tho Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the blacke Beare in Pauls Church Yard, 1632.
- Page count, as 454 leaves, from Christie's. Page details, from Christie's, are: [20], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, 168, 269-419, [1].
- From Christie's: "While essentially a page-for-page reprint of the first, the second folio is famed for its inclusion of Milton's "An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare" -- the first appearance in print of any work of Milton's. Gregg notes that, "Though many errors were introduced in the course of reprinting, the text of the present edition shows signs of careful, if unauthorized, revision." There are five variants of the first issue, three substituting the names and addresses of other publishers for that of primary publisher Robert Allott on the title page. The attached photo is a copy printed for William Aspley. "These publishers were all proprietors of one or more of the copyrights of Shakespeare's plays," observes Jackson, 'but their interests were much less than Allott's and consequently the proportion of copies issued with their names in the imprint was much smaller." All the variants have the same colophon: "Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632."