Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

  • Stubbs, Philip, active 1581-1593.
Date:
1877-1882
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Credit: Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Series II. Plays; no. 9. Henry V. b. Parallel Texts of the First Quarto (1600) and First Folio (1623) editions; edited by Dr Brinsley Nicholson and Mr P. A. Daniel, and with an Introduction by Mr Daniel. On its becoming clear that Dr Nicholson could not com- plete his Parallel Text, Mr Daniel, in the most kind way, promist to stay in England and finish it for the Society. The list of the mistakes in our Reprint of the First Folio Henry V was so disappointing,—tho’ in only one case was a necessary letter, ‘ ^mnne\_r~\’ left out, and in only one case a word (‘Lord \_Hig]i\ Constable^)—that it determind the Committee on a step they had often before contemplated, the giving-up of the issue of a series of Quarto Reprints of the Plays in the First Folio. From the first this was only an eye-luxury; students’ needs were satisfied by the facsimile of Staunton, its reduction by Chatto and Windus, and Booth’s admirable and handy quarto reprint. This experience, and the continued pressure on the Society’s funds, also decided the Committee on giving up to Mr Griggs the reproduction, under the Director’s superin- tendence, of the Series of First (or early) Quartos of Shakspere’s Plays, so that the Committee would need only to reprint—for some years at least—those Quartos that had to be set in Parallel Texts. As Mr Griggs undertook to, and did, photo- graph at once seventeen of the most important Quartos, and pro- mist to issue them gradually, the Committee felt that they could not but give their sanction to a scheme which would accom- plish a large branch of the Society’s work long before the Society’s small funds would let them do it themselves. But they regret to find that as yet only the first Quarto of Hamlet has appeard. For 1878 the Committee had not much money to spend, and therefore issued only three Books :— Series I, no. 5. Transactions, 1877—9, Part I, containing Papers by Mr Edward Rose (on the mistakes in the Division into Acts of Hamlet) ; Mr Spedding (on like mistakes in Lear, Much Ado and Twelfth Night); Mr T. Alfred Spalding (on the Witch-Scenes in Macbeth,—contending against Mr Fleay, &c. that all the witches are of like kind, and Shakspere’s ;—and on the First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (contending that thei'e is no good evidence of a second hand in it); Mr P. A. Daniel, on Mr Halpin’s Time-Analysis of the Merchant of Venice (show- ing that 8 days and 4 intervals were required by Shakspere’s words, instead of the 38 hours given by Mr Halpin) ; Mr C. II. CooTE (on Shakspere’s ‘New Map ’ in Twelfth Night,