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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage

Print Book, English, 1821
R.C. and J. Rivington, London, 1821
Plays
21 volumes : illustrations, frontispieces (volumes 1-2), plates (1 folded), portraits, facsimiles, folded tables (1 genealogical) ; 22 cm
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v. 1-3 Prolegomena
v. 4 Two gentlemen of verona
Comedy of errors
Love's labour's lost
v. 5 Merchant of Venice
Midsummer night's dream
Taming of the shrew
v. 6 Romeo and Juliet
As you like it
v. 7 Much ado about nothing
Hamlet
v. 8 Merry wives of Windsor
Troilus and Cressida
v. 9 Measure for measure
Othello
v. 10 King Lear
All's well that ends well
v. 11 Twelfth night
Macbeth
v. 12 Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
v. 13 Cymbeline
Timon of Athens
v. 14 Coriolanus
Winter's tale
v. 15 Tempest
King John
Essay on the origin of The tempest
v. 16 Richard II
Henry IV. Part I
v. 17 Henry IV. Part II
Henry V
v. 18 Henry VI. Part I
Henry VI. Part II
Henry VI. Part III
Mr. Malone's dissertation
v. 19 Richard III
Henry VIII
v. 20 Venus and Adonis
Rape of Lucrece
Sonnets
Lover's complaint
Passionate pilgrim
Memoirs of Lord Southampton
v. 21 Pericles
Titus Andronicus
Addenda
Index
Copy [A] donated by the Rev. Alexander Dyce
Copy [A] with MS. note by Mr. Dyce
Copy [B] donated by John Forster
Edited by James Boswell, the younger, to whom Malone left his materials for a new edition (Malone's first edition appeared in 1790 in 10 vols.) " 'Boswell's Malone'is generally known as the 'third variorum' edition of Shakespeare." cf. Dict. nat. biog. v. 35, p. 437