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Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, Published according to the True Originall Copies (First Folio, Portrait)
Portrait of Shakespeare and Poem
Tags: 17th century, folios, genres
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, Published according to the true Original Copies (Fourth Folio, Portrait)
Title Page and Shakespeare Portrait
Tags: 17th century, 18th century, apocrypha, Beaumont and Fletcher, editions, folios, Rowe
Thomas and Harriet Bowdler, The Family Shakspeare (Twelfth Night)
Twelfth Night, Pages 280-281 (Act II, Scene V)
Thomas and Harriet Bowdler, The Family Shakespeare (Tempest)
The Tempest, Pages 18-19 (Act I, Scene II)
Thomas and Harriet Bowdler, The Family Shakspeare (Preface)
Preface to The Family Shakespeare (pages xvi-xix) xvi: Bowdler’s preface balances praise for Shakespeare with acknowledgment that much of his content is “so indecent” as to make Bowdler desire to erase it. Bowdler speculates that Shakespeare catered…
Tate, The History of King Lear (Pages 66-67)
Pages 66-67: Tate’s Lear ends with Lear and Gloucester alive and reconciled to their children, and Edgar and Cordelia jointly placed on English throne by Lear.
Tags: 17th century, adaptations, genres, history, King Lear, revisions, Tate, tragedy
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