Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama) - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108059457 ISBN 13: 9781108059459

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

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).

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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108059457
• ISBN 13: 9781108059459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 872