Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays

Collier, John Payne; Hamilton, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage; Hardy, Thomas Duffus

ISBN 10: 1108059457 / ISBN 13: 9781108059459

Published by Cambridge Library Collection, 2013

About this Item

An 1852 account of the discovery of a 'corrected' Shakespeare Second Folio, published here with three pieces from 1860 debating its authenticity. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama. Num Pages: 872 pages, 2 colour illus. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1260. . 2013. Paperback. . . . .

Seller Inventory # V9781108059459

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays
• Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108059457
• ISBN 13: 9781108059459
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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).

Book Description

John Payne Collier (1789-1883), editor and forger, published this 1852 account of his discovery of a 'corrected' Second Folio of Shakespeare. It is reissued here along with Nicholas Hamilton's inquiry into its genuineness, Collier's rebuttal, and Thomas Duffus Hardy's review of the controversy (all published in 1860).