Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Payne Collier
By (author) Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton
By (author) Thomas Duffus Hardy
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:872
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreShakespeare plays
ISBN/Barcode 9781108059459
ClassificationsDewey:822.3309
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 2 Plates, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 May 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

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).