| Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy Contributor(s): Collier, John Payne (Author), Hamilton, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Arm (Author), Hardy, Thomas Duffus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108059457 ISBN-13: 9781108059459 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $78.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare - History - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.94" H x 6" W x 9" (2.77 lbs) 872 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |