User:Rossolson/Shakespeares

Links

• PG's Overview page - This page should be heavily revised:
  • The section on copyright is misplaced
  • the 1700 list is misplaced
  • the differences between 11/15/17/22 series are not clear,
  • there is reference to "mousing over" links that are not present,
  • there are intra-page anchor links that link to incorrect other pages.
  • Sections to add
    • multiple languages
    • multiple authors
    • editors
• List of PG's Shakespeare books via autocat3.
  • The titles should include (source) in addition to (language).
• Top authors link: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a65

PG's Books

• 100 (Unattributed Collection)
• 2270 (Possible First folio collection)
• 1041 Shakespeare's Sonnets (Recommended along with 15xx)
• 1045 Venus and Adonis (Recommended along with 15xx)
• 11xx series ("From the first folio" oops!!!)
  • 1100 Henry VI, Part 1 (Possible F1)
  • 1101 Henry VI, Part 2 (Possible F1)
  • 1102 Henry VI, Part 3 (Possible F1)
  • 1103 Richard III (Possible F1)
  • 1104 The Comedy of Errors (Possible F1)
  • 1105 The Sonnets (Cannot be First Folio!!)
  • 1106 Titus Andronicus (Possible F1)
  • 1107 The Taming of the Shrew (Possible F1)
  • 1108 The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Possible F1)
  • 1109 Love's Labour's Lost (Possible F1)
  • 1110 King John (Possible F1)
  • 1111 Richard II (Possible F1)
  • 1112 Romeo and Juliet (Possible F1)
  • 1113 A Midsummer Night's Dream (Possible F1)
  • 1114 The Merchant of Venice (Possible F1)
  • 1115 Henry IV, Part 1 (Possible F1)
  • 1116 The Merry Wives of Windsor (Possible F1)
  • 1117 Henry IV, Part 2 (Possible F1)
  • 1118 Much Ado about Nothing (Possible F1)
  • 1119 Henry V (Possible F1)
  • 1120 Julius Caesar (Possible F1)
  • 1121 As You Like It (Possible F1)
  • 1122 Hamlet (Possible F1)
  • 1123 Twelfth Night (Possible F1)
  • 1124 Troilus and Cressida (Possible F1)
  • 1125 All's Well That Ends Well (Possible F1)
  • 1126 Measure for Measure (Possible F1)
  • 1127 Othello (Possible F1)
  • 1128 King Lear (Possible F1)
  • 1129 The Tragedy of Macbeth (Possible F1)
  • 1130 Antony and Cleopatra (Possible F1)
  • 1131 Coriolanus (Possible F1)
  • 1132 Timon of Athens (Possible F1)
  • 1133 Cymbeline (Possible F1)
  • 1134 The Winter's Tale (Possible F1)
  • 1135 The Tempest (Possible F1)
  • 1136 Henry VIII (Possible F1)
  • 1137 A Lover's Complaint (Cannot be First Folio!!)

• 1430 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (Cannot be First Folio!!)

• 15xx series ("Best starting point", "most complete")
  • plus 1041, 1045
• 17xx series ("not been updated as much")
• 22xx series ("not been updated as much")

Source Books

From the First Folio (1623) through the Johnson–Steevens edition (1773).

Collected editions and brief notes

Year	#	Edition	Notes
1623	2270	First Folio	First collected works, published by Heminge and Condell.
1632		Second Folio	Reprint of First Folio with minor corrections.
1663/1664		Third Folio	Expanded folio; added Pericles and six apocryphal plays.
1685		Fourth Folio	Last of the traditional folios.
1709		Rowe’s Edition	First modern editorial edition; biography, stage directions, character lists.
1725		Pope’s Edition	Refined text but introduced errors; emphasized literary polish.
1733		Theobald’s Edition	Early scholarly edition; corrected many of Pope’s mistakes.
1765		Johnson’s Edition	Samuel Johnson’s annotated edition with influential preface.
1773		Johnson–Steevens Edition	Became standard scholarly text for decades.