Author: Malone, Edmond
Title: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
Edition:
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Volume the First, Part II Containing History of the English Stage
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor London : Printed by Baldwin, 1790.
Call # 822.33 1 M 297 v. 1 pt. 2
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Volume the Third Containing
Tempest
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for MeasureDublin : Printed for John Exshaw, No. 98 Grafton-Street,
1794
Call # 822.33 1M 297 1794 v.3
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Note what's included in the different editions. Look at the opening of The Tempest in both texts. Also notice the typesetting varies
- Notice the notes from Warburton, Steevens, Johnson, and Malone - and consider what's important, what's included, and why
- Consider compare/contrast with the Tonson edition of The Tempest ( London: Tonson, 1734) Call # 822.33 4 TeT6 - which has no annotations at all.