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Benson, Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Scornefull Sonnet)
"A Request to his Scornefull Love" : Benson’s headers were always in the third person. Here Benson groups Sonnets 88-91 into a single unbroken lyric.
Benson, Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Picture Sonnet)
"The Picture of True Love" : Benson rearranged the order of the poems in the 1609 Sonnets volume, arranging sonnets under thematic headings that presented them as a general lyric description of love and inhibited readings integrating the poems as a…
Shakespeare's Sonnets, The First Edition (Introduction)
Following Malone’s interpretation, the 19th century was eager to read the Sonnets for evidence of Shakespeare’s intimate personal life. The introduction to the facsimile volume assumes that the “Dark Lady,” as the sonnet mistress became known, was a…
Shakespeare's Sonnets, The First Edition (Opening Page)
By 1880, photolithography was able to convey the feel of the original pages of the book, while adding features that frame a reader’s interpretive encounter with the text, such as the line numbering here.
Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Perjurie)
In reprinting sonnet 108, Benson changes the text of the poem, replacing the poem’s address to the beloved as “sweet boy” with address to a “sweet-love,” removing the reference to a male beloved.
Ravenscroft, Titus Andronicus, or The Rape of Lavinia (Pages 10-11, 34-35)
Page 10: Ravenscroft’s greater focus on Aaron the Moor reveals how compelling Shakespeare’s villain remained. Here, Tamora showily presents Aaron for Saturninus’s approval
Page 11: Aaron discusses the invisibility of his blushes. Later in the play,…
Page 11: Aaron discusses the invisibility of his blushes. Later in the play,…
Ravenscroft, Titus Andronicus, or The Rape of Lavinia (Title and Cast)
Title Page
Cast of Characters: Ravenscroft’s play separates characters by national and ethnic affiliation.
Cast of Characters: Ravenscroft’s play separates characters by national and ethnic affiliation.
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.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Page 63)
Page 63: In Tate’s version, Lear turns action hero, seizing a weapon from the guards and successfully fighting them off until Edgar and Albany rescue him and Cordelia.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Page 4)
Page 4: Cordelia’s criticism of Lear’s demand to occupy sole place in his daughters’ hearts is understood by Lear in Tate’s version as deriving from her love for Edgar.
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