(For a list of books on Shakespeare
containing
bibliographies.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
XXVIII, pp.
229–
234.
Brereton, J. Le G. Notes on the text of Kyd. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVII,
part 1, 1907.
Collier. Vol. III.
Crawford, Charles. Collectanea, passim. 2 vols. 1906-7.
Concordance to the Works of Thomas Kyd. Bang's Materialien,
vol. xv.
Canliffe, J. W. The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. 1893.
Fischer, R. Zur Kunstentwicklung der Englischen Tragödie. 1893. [The
first to dispute Kyd's authorship of The First Part of Jeronimo. ]
Fitzgerald, J. The Sources of the Hamlet Tragedy. Glasgow, 1909.
Fleischer, G. 0. Bemerkungen über Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.
Dresden, 1896.
Greg's List of Plays.
Henslowe's Diary.
Koeppel, E. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Elisabethanischen Dramas.
Soliman and Persida. Engl. Stud. vol. xvi, p. 358-362, 1891.
Review of Sarrazin's Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. Engl. Stud. vol. XVIII,
p. 125-133, 1893.
Kreyssig, F. Vorlesungen über Shakespeare, seine Zeit und seine Werke.
passim. Berlin, 1874.
Lamb's Specimens.
Lee, Sidney. Art. Kyd, Thomas, Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. XXXI. 1892.
Markscheffel, K. Thomas Kyd's Tragödien. (Diss. ) Weimar, 1885.
Sarrazin, G. Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. Berlin, 1892.
Reviewed by Schick, J. , in Herrig's Archiv, vol. xc.
Die Entstehung der Hamlet-Tragödie.
i. Shakespeare's Hamlet und Thomas Kyd. Anglia, vol. XII, 1890.
ii. (a) Der Corambus Hamlet und Thomas Kyd. (6) Der Urhamlet
und Seneca. Anglia, vol. XIII, 1891.
Der Verfasser von Solimon and Perseda. Engl. Stud. vol. xv, 1891.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. Vol. I, chap. v.
Schick, J. Thomas Kyd's Todesjahr. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXXV,
pp. 277-280, 1899.
(See, also, under sec. II B. )
Schröer, A. Über Titus Andronicus. Marburg, 1891.
Ward. Vol. 1, chap. III.
Widgery, W. H. The first quarto edition of Hamlet, 1603. Harness Prize
Essay. (Cambridge) London, 1880.
EARLY CHRONICLE HISTORIES.
As to editions of early Chronicle Histories other than Edward II men-
tioned in this chapter, pp. 151-3, see, for The Famous Victories of Henry the
fifth, The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England (two Parts), and
The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two famous Houses of Yorke
and Lancaster and The True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of Yorke, the biblio-
graphy to chaps. VIII-XII (Shakespeare) sec. 3; and, for the famous
Chronicle of King Edwarde the first, the bibliography to chap. vi (The
Plays of the University Wits); and add :
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426
Bibliography
The Life and Death of Jacke Straw, A notable Rebell in England: Who
was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London. 1593.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. v.
A full survey of English chronicle plays, there defined as dramas based
as to source on the chronicle history of Great Britain, will be found in
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama, vol. 1, pp. 251 ff. ; cf. the same author's
The English Chronicle Play, New York, 1902. See also the exhaustive survey
of English historical dramas, and of dramas from the national history in
particular, in the Elizabethan age, in Creizenach, vol. iv, part 1, pp. 193 ff.
CHAPTERS VIII-XII
SHAKESPEARE
(See, also, General Bibliography, ante, pp. 381-4. )
1. Bibliography (including periodicals and societies).
2. Collected works:
(a) The four folios.
(6) Principal later editions.
3. Separate plays (texts and commentaries).
4. Poems (texts and commentaries).
5. Plays of uncertain authorship attributed to Shakespeare.
6. Sources.
7. Textual criticism and controversy.
8. General commentaries and subsidiary works.
9. Concordances, glossaries, language, grammar and versification.
10. Biography:
(a) General.
(6) Special aspects.
(c) Portraits.
11. Miscellaneous.
12. Shakespeare and the Continent.
1. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Besides the following special works, extensive bibliographies will be found
under the heading Shakespeare in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed
Books, in Bohn's edition of Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (6 vols. , 1858–
65, pp. 2252-2366), and in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
vol. xxi (by Tedder, H. R. ). Lee's Life of Shakespeare, sixth edition, 1908,
contains a very useful survey of Shakespearean literature; and Poole's Index
to Periodical Literature (Boston, 1882, and supplements) is an invaluable
gaide to the numerous articles which have appeared in magazines. Many
papers on subjects connected with Shakespeare will also be found in
various volumes of Anglia, Englische Studien, Herrig's Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Modern Language Notes
and similar publications.
Bohn, H. G. The biography and bibliography of Shakespeare. Philobiblon
Society. 1863.
Catalogue of the Barton Shakespeare collection in the Boston Public Library.
2 vols. Boston, Mass. , 1878-80.
Catalogue of the books presented by Edward Capell to Trinity College,
Cambridge. Compiled by Greg, W. W. Cambridge, 1903.
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-
427
Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham. By
Mullins, J. D. (1872. )
Shaw, A. Capel. Index to the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Bir-
mingham. 3 parts. 1900-3.
Courtney, W. P. A register of National Bibliography. Vol. 11, pp. 457-462.
1905.
(For a list of books on Shakespeare containing bibliographies. ]
Esdaile, A. Shakespeare Literature, 1901-5. The Library, 1906, pp. 167–
180.
Fleay, F. G. Tabular view of the quarto editions of Shakspere's works,
1593-1630. N. Shaksp. Soc. Trans. , part 1, 1874.
Greg, W. W. A list of English plays written before 1643 and printed before
1700. Bibliographical Society. 1900.
On certain false dates in Shakespearean quartos. The Library, 1908,
pp. 113-131, 381-409. See, also, The Athenæum, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 544, 574,
669; and Huth, A. H. and Pollard, A. W. , in The Library, Jan. 1910.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Shakesperiana. A catalogue of the early eds. of
Shakespeare's plays and of the commentaries, etc. illustrative of his
works. 1841.
Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Weimar, 1865, eto. In
progress. [Contains every second year a Shakespeare bibliography
which includes contributions to periodical literature. ]
Katalog der Bibliothek der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Weimar,
1909.
Knortz, K. An American Shakespeare-bibliography. Boston, 1876.
Körting, G. Grundriss der Geschichte der englischen Litteratur. 4th ed.
Münster, 1905.
Plomer, H. R. The printers of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The Library,
1906, pp. 149-166.
Pollard, A. W. Shakespeare folios and quartos, a study in the bibliography
of Shakespeare's plays, 1594–1685. 1909.
Reichel, E. Shakespeare-Litteratur. Stuttgart, 1887.
Sherzer, J. American editions of Shakespeare, 1753–1866. Mod. Lang.
Assoc. of America, vol. XXII. 1907.
Thimm, F. Shakespeariana from 1564 to 1864. 1864. New ed. , to 1871.
1872.
Wilson, J. Shakspeariana. Catalogue of all the books, pamphlets, etc.
relating to Shakspear. 1827.
Winsor, J. Shakespeare's poems. A bibliography of the earlier editions.
Harvard University Library Bibliographical Contributions, No. 2. Cam-
bridge, Mass. , 1879.
Periodicals and Societies.
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Jahrbuch. Weimar, 1865, eto. In
progress.
New Shakespeareana. Sept. 1901-Oct. 1906. 4 vols. New York, 1902-6.
New Shakspere Society. 27 publications. 1874–86. [Transactions, reprints
of early eds. of the plays, and works illustrative of the writings of Shake-
speare. ]
New York Shakespeare Society. Papers nos. 1-12, 1885-99.
Notes and Queries. 1856, etc. In progress. [Consult the Index volumes
s. v. Shakespeare. ]
Philadelphia Shakspere Society. Publications, nos. 1-5. 1860-1903.
Shakespeare Society. 1841–53. [Issued 48 publications illustrative of the life
and works of Shakespeare. A list of these is given in Lowndes's Biblio-
grapher's Manual, pp. 2341-2. ]
1
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428
Bibliography
Shakespeare Museum. Ed. Moltke, M. Leipzig, 1870-4.
Shakespeariana. 10 vols. Philadelphia, 1883-93.
2. COLLECTED WORKS.
(a) The four folios.
1. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published
according to the true originall copies. [Droeshout portrait. ] London
Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623.
Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount,
J. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Edited by J. Heminge and H. Condell. Contains the following
thirty-six plays:
The Tempest
Henry the Fift
The Two Gentlemen of Verona First part of Henry the Sixt
The Merry Wives of Windsor Second part of Henry the Sixt
Measure for Measure
Third part of Henry the Sixt
The Comedy of Errours
Richard the Third
Much Adoo about Nothing
King Henry the Eight
Loves Labour Lost
Troylus and Cressida
Midsommer Nights Dreame
Coriolanus
The Merchant of Venice
Titus Andronicus
As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Timon of Athens
All's Well, that Ends Well
Julius Caesar
Twelfe-Night
Macbeth
The Winters Tale
Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
King John
King Lear
Richard the Second
Othello, the Moore of Venice
First part of Henry the Fourth Anthony and Cleopatra
Second part of Henry the Fourth Cymbeline
Reprints: Wright, E. and J. , 1807-8; Booth, L. , 3 vols. , 1864;
Staunton, H. , facsimile, 1866; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. , reduced fac-
simile, 1876; Lee, S. , facsimile, Oxford, 1902.
Greg, W. W. The bibliographical history of the first folio. The
Library, 1903, pp. 258-283.
Lee, S. Census of extant copies of the first folio. Oxford, 1902.
Notes and additions to the census. Oxford, 1906.
2. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true originall copies. The second impression. (Droeshout
portrait. ] London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot. 1632.
Some copies bear the name of J. Smethwick, W. Aspley, R. Hawkins,
or R. Meighen in place of Allot.
Methuen's facsimile reprint, 1909.
Smith, C. A. The chief differences between the first and second folios
of Shakespeare. Engl. Stud. vol. xxx, pp. 1-20, 1902.
3. First issue :
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true original copies. The third impression. [Droeshout
portrait. ] London, Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663.
This issue does not contain the seven additional plays.
Second issue:
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
I
## p.
234.
Brereton, J. Le G. Notes on the text of Kyd. Engl. Stud. vol. XXXVII,
part 1, 1907.
Collier. Vol. III.
Crawford, Charles. Collectanea, passim. 2 vols. 1906-7.
Concordance to the Works of Thomas Kyd. Bang's Materialien,
vol. xv.
Canliffe, J. W. The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. 1893.
Fischer, R. Zur Kunstentwicklung der Englischen Tragödie. 1893. [The
first to dispute Kyd's authorship of The First Part of Jeronimo. ]
Fitzgerald, J. The Sources of the Hamlet Tragedy. Glasgow, 1909.
Fleischer, G. 0. Bemerkungen über Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.
Dresden, 1896.
Greg's List of Plays.
Henslowe's Diary.
Koeppel, E. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Elisabethanischen Dramas.
Soliman and Persida. Engl. Stud. vol. xvi, p. 358-362, 1891.
Review of Sarrazin's Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. Engl. Stud. vol. XVIII,
p. 125-133, 1893.
Kreyssig, F. Vorlesungen über Shakespeare, seine Zeit und seine Werke.
passim. Berlin, 1874.
Lamb's Specimens.
Lee, Sidney. Art. Kyd, Thomas, Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. XXXI. 1892.
Markscheffel, K. Thomas Kyd's Tragödien. (Diss. ) Weimar, 1885.
Sarrazin, G. Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis. Berlin, 1892.
Reviewed by Schick, J. , in Herrig's Archiv, vol. xc.
Die Entstehung der Hamlet-Tragödie.
i. Shakespeare's Hamlet und Thomas Kyd. Anglia, vol. XII, 1890.
ii. (a) Der Corambus Hamlet und Thomas Kyd. (6) Der Urhamlet
und Seneca. Anglia, vol. XIII, 1891.
Der Verfasser von Solimon and Perseda. Engl. Stud. vol. xv, 1891.
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama. Vol. I, chap. v.
Schick, J. Thomas Kyd's Todesjahr. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol.
XXXV,
pp. 277-280, 1899.
(See, also, under sec. II B. )
Schröer, A. Über Titus Andronicus. Marburg, 1891.
Ward. Vol. 1, chap. III.
Widgery, W. H. The first quarto edition of Hamlet, 1603. Harness Prize
Essay. (Cambridge) London, 1880.
EARLY CHRONICLE HISTORIES.
As to editions of early Chronicle Histories other than Edward II men-
tioned in this chapter, pp. 151-3, see, for The Famous Victories of Henry the
fifth, The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England (two Parts), and
The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two famous Houses of Yorke
and Lancaster and The True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of Yorke, the biblio-
graphy to chaps. VIII-XII (Shakespeare) sec. 3; and, for the famous
Chronicle of King Edwarde the first, the bibliography to chap. vi (The
Plays of the University Wits); and add :
## p. 426 (#450) ############################################
426
Bibliography
The Life and Death of Jacke Straw, A notable Rebell in England: Who
was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London. 1593.
Rptd in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. v.
A full survey of English chronicle plays, there defined as dramas based
as to source on the chronicle history of Great Britain, will be found in
Schelling's Elizabethan Drama, vol. 1, pp. 251 ff. ; cf. the same author's
The English Chronicle Play, New York, 1902. See also the exhaustive survey
of English historical dramas, and of dramas from the national history in
particular, in the Elizabethan age, in Creizenach, vol. iv, part 1, pp. 193 ff.
CHAPTERS VIII-XII
SHAKESPEARE
(See, also, General Bibliography, ante, pp. 381-4. )
1. Bibliography (including periodicals and societies).
2. Collected works:
(a) The four folios.
(6) Principal later editions.
3. Separate plays (texts and commentaries).
4. Poems (texts and commentaries).
5. Plays of uncertain authorship attributed to Shakespeare.
6. Sources.
7. Textual criticism and controversy.
8. General commentaries and subsidiary works.
9. Concordances, glossaries, language, grammar and versification.
10. Biography:
(a) General.
(6) Special aspects.
(c) Portraits.
11. Miscellaneous.
12. Shakespeare and the Continent.
1. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Besides the following special works, extensive bibliographies will be found
under the heading Shakespeare in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed
Books, in Bohn's edition of Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (6 vols. , 1858–
65, pp. 2252-2366), and in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
vol. xxi (by Tedder, H. R. ). Lee's Life of Shakespeare, sixth edition, 1908,
contains a very useful survey of Shakespearean literature; and Poole's Index
to Periodical Literature (Boston, 1882, and supplements) is an invaluable
gaide to the numerous articles which have appeared in magazines. Many
papers on subjects connected with Shakespeare will also be found in
various volumes of Anglia, Englische Studien, Herrig's Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Modern Language Notes
and similar publications.
Bohn, H. G. The biography and bibliography of Shakespeare. Philobiblon
Society. 1863.
Catalogue of the Barton Shakespeare collection in the Boston Public Library.
2 vols. Boston, Mass. , 1878-80.
Catalogue of the books presented by Edward Capell to Trinity College,
Cambridge. Compiled by Greg, W. W. Cambridge, 1903.
## p. 427 (#451) ############################################
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-
427
Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham. By
Mullins, J. D. (1872. )
Shaw, A. Capel. Index to the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Bir-
mingham. 3 parts. 1900-3.
Courtney, W. P. A register of National Bibliography. Vol. 11, pp. 457-462.
1905.
(For a list of books on Shakespeare containing bibliographies. ]
Esdaile, A. Shakespeare Literature, 1901-5. The Library, 1906, pp. 167–
180.
Fleay, F. G. Tabular view of the quarto editions of Shakspere's works,
1593-1630. N. Shaksp. Soc. Trans. , part 1, 1874.
Greg, W. W. A list of English plays written before 1643 and printed before
1700. Bibliographical Society. 1900.
On certain false dates in Shakespearean quartos. The Library, 1908,
pp. 113-131, 381-409. See, also, The Athenæum, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 544, 574,
669; and Huth, A. H. and Pollard, A. W. , in The Library, Jan. 1910.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Shakesperiana. A catalogue of the early eds. of
Shakespeare's plays and of the commentaries, etc. illustrative of his
works. 1841.
Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Weimar, 1865, eto. In
progress. [Contains every second year a Shakespeare bibliography
which includes contributions to periodical literature. ]
Katalog der Bibliothek der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Weimar,
1909.
Knortz, K. An American Shakespeare-bibliography. Boston, 1876.
Körting, G. Grundriss der Geschichte der englischen Litteratur. 4th ed.
Münster, 1905.
Plomer, H. R. The printers of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The Library,
1906, pp. 149-166.
Pollard, A. W. Shakespeare folios and quartos, a study in the bibliography
of Shakespeare's plays, 1594–1685. 1909.
Reichel, E. Shakespeare-Litteratur. Stuttgart, 1887.
Sherzer, J. American editions of Shakespeare, 1753–1866. Mod. Lang.
Assoc. of America, vol. XXII. 1907.
Thimm, F. Shakespeariana from 1564 to 1864. 1864. New ed. , to 1871.
1872.
Wilson, J. Shakspeariana. Catalogue of all the books, pamphlets, etc.
relating to Shakspear. 1827.
Winsor, J. Shakespeare's poems. A bibliography of the earlier editions.
Harvard University Library Bibliographical Contributions, No. 2. Cam-
bridge, Mass. , 1879.
Periodicals and Societies.
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Jahrbuch. Weimar, 1865, eto. In
progress.
New Shakespeareana. Sept. 1901-Oct. 1906. 4 vols. New York, 1902-6.
New Shakspere Society. 27 publications. 1874–86. [Transactions, reprints
of early eds. of the plays, and works illustrative of the writings of Shake-
speare. ]
New York Shakespeare Society. Papers nos. 1-12, 1885-99.
Notes and Queries. 1856, etc. In progress. [Consult the Index volumes
s. v. Shakespeare. ]
Philadelphia Shakspere Society. Publications, nos. 1-5. 1860-1903.
Shakespeare Society. 1841–53. [Issued 48 publications illustrative of the life
and works of Shakespeare. A list of these is given in Lowndes's Biblio-
grapher's Manual, pp. 2341-2. ]
1
## p. 428 (#452) ############################################
428
Bibliography
Shakespeare Museum. Ed. Moltke, M. Leipzig, 1870-4.
Shakespeariana. 10 vols. Philadelphia, 1883-93.
2. COLLECTED WORKS.
(a) The four folios.
1. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published
according to the true originall copies. [Droeshout portrait. ] London
Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623.
Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount,
J. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Edited by J. Heminge and H. Condell. Contains the following
thirty-six plays:
The Tempest
Henry the Fift
The Two Gentlemen of Verona First part of Henry the Sixt
The Merry Wives of Windsor Second part of Henry the Sixt
Measure for Measure
Third part of Henry the Sixt
The Comedy of Errours
Richard the Third
Much Adoo about Nothing
King Henry the Eight
Loves Labour Lost
Troylus and Cressida
Midsommer Nights Dreame
Coriolanus
The Merchant of Venice
Titus Andronicus
As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Timon of Athens
All's Well, that Ends Well
Julius Caesar
Twelfe-Night
Macbeth
The Winters Tale
Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
King John
King Lear
Richard the Second
Othello, the Moore of Venice
First part of Henry the Fourth Anthony and Cleopatra
Second part of Henry the Fourth Cymbeline
Reprints: Wright, E. and J. , 1807-8; Booth, L. , 3 vols. , 1864;
Staunton, H. , facsimile, 1866; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. 0. , reduced fac-
simile, 1876; Lee, S. , facsimile, Oxford, 1902.
Greg, W. W. The bibliographical history of the first folio. The
Library, 1903, pp. 258-283.
Lee, S. Census of extant copies of the first folio. Oxford, 1902.
Notes and additions to the census. Oxford, 1906.
2. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true originall copies. The second impression. (Droeshout
portrait. ] London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot. 1632.
Some copies bear the name of J. Smethwick, W. Aspley, R. Hawkins,
or R. Meighen in place of Allot.
Methuen's facsimile reprint, 1909.
Smith, C. A. The chief differences between the first and second folios
of Shakespeare. Engl. Stud. vol. xxx, pp. 1-20, 1902.
3. First issue :
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true original copies. The third impression. [Droeshout
portrait. ] London, Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663.
This issue does not contain the seven additional plays.
Second issue:
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
I
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