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CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Editions of the poems in the poet's lifetime 311
Posthumous quartos of the poems 311
The 'Poems' of 1640 312
Editions of the plays in the poet's lifetime 313
Posthumous quartos of the plays 314
1623 The First Folio 315
The publishing syndicate 315
The prefatory matter 318
The value of the text 319
The order of the plays 320
The typography 320
Irregular copies 320
The Sheldon copy 321
Jaggard's presentation copy of the First Folio 323
Estimated number of extant copies 326
Reprints of the First Folio 327
1632 The Second Folio 327
1663-4 The Third Folio 328
1685 The Fourth Folio 328
Eighteenth-century editors 328
Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) 329
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 330
Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) 331
Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746) 333
Bishop Warburton (1698-1779) 334
Dr. Johnson (1709-1783) 334
Edward Capell (1713-1781) 334
George Steevens (1736-1800) 335
Edmund Malone (1741-1812) 337
Variorum editions 337
Nineteenth-century editors 338
Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) 339
Howard Staunton (1810-1874) 339
Nikolaus Delius (1813-1888) 339
The Cambridge edition (1863-6) 339
The Bankside edition 339
Other nineteenth-century editions. 340
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POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION
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Views of Shakespeare's contemporaries 342
Ben Jonson's tribute 343
English opinion between 1660 and 1702 345
Dryden's view 346
Restoration adaptations 347
English opinion from 1702 onwards 348
Stratford festivals 350
Shakespeare on the English stage 350
The first appearance of actresses in Shakespearean parts 351
David Garrick (1717-1779) 352
John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) 353
Mrs. Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) 354
Edmund Kean (1787-1833) 354