932. 3- I UC NRLF .1 B M bl THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION Leaflet No. 15 A Shakespeare Reference Library By Sidney Lee, D.Litt., LL.D. June, 1910 A copy of this leaflet is supplied to all full members of the Association, They can obtain further copies (price Is.) on application to the Secretary, Miss Elizabeth Ljee, 8 Momington Avenue Mansions. West Kensington, London. A SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE LIBRARY CONTENTS I PAGE 1. Texts of the Works — II. Plavs and Poems . . 2 h. Doubtful Plays ... 2 0, Poems .... 2 2. Graramai' and Glossary . . 3 3. Criticism and Interpretation — a. Early Appreciations . h. General Estimates . ('. Special Studies . \ Jletiri/ F, //rtm/e^, together with The First Pur f of The Contention, and Tfie true Trayedie of liichanl Duke of Yorke, the two plays on which are based the second and third parts of Ilenrif I'l. The comment in this edition is solely confined to textual criticism.] A new Variorum Edition. The Works, ed. H. Howard Furness (in progress). Lippincott (Philadelphia), 1S71-190X. 15,s-. net each vol. [This edition prints the First Folio text in the original spelling, and collects on an exhaustive scale at the bottom of the pages the various notes of previous editors. The Introductions and Appendices give previously published essays of criticism and research. Although the massive fditorial apparatus is mainly compiled from older sources, room is found for much shrewd original comment by the editor. The following i)lays have appeared : lioineo and Juliet, Macbeth, Handel (2 vols.), King Lear. Othello, Tlie Merchant of \'enice. As i/ou like it. Tin Tem)>est, Midsummer Ni;iht's Dream, The M'inter's Tale, Much Ado about Nofhini/, Twelfth Miffht. Love's Labour's Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, and RicJianl IIL] The Caxton Shakespeare. The Works. With annotations and a general intro- duction by Sidney Iah?. With prefaces to separate plays by William Archer, Canon Heeching, Mr. Hirrell, Prof. Dowden. M. .TusstTand, Prof. Haleigh. Prof. Saintsbury, Dr. Ward, and others. Caxton Publishing Company, London. 20 vols. 191U. iSs. 6rf. net per volume. [The text follows the Cambridge Shakespeare, but occasionally the present editor gives in his notes reasons for preferring another rea*ling. Tlie notes which are at the bottom of the page deal brietiy with textual, verbal, historical and geneml matters, and cite parallel passagt'3 wherever they seem to have illustrative pertinence. The annotations of the later plays and the Sonnets are full. The last volume contains two Indices and a filossary.] h. Facsimile Reprints. Ihe First Folio. Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, being a reproduction in facsimile of the First Folio Edition, 1623, from the Chatsworth copy in the jX»sse8«ion of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. With introduction and census of copies by Sidney Lee. Clarendon Press. 1902. In Folio. (Out of print, published at five and six guineas.) [The First Folio is the only Folio edition worth the close attention of students. Another facsimile of the First Folio has been long announced by Messi-?. Methuen, who have already produced full-sized fac«imiles of the Second, Third, and Fourth Folios, price j£4 4«. each, together with 10 A SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE LIBRARY a controversial introductory volume entitled Shakespeare's Folios and Quartos, A study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594- 1685, by Alfred W. Pollard. £l Is. net.] The First Folio, in reduced facsimile. Chatto. 1876. 10s. M. [This reproduction in small 8vo is rather too small to be very convenient for use.] The Quartos. Quarto Facsimiles reproduced by photographic process under the super- ' intendence of F. J. Furnivall. With careful introductions on textual matters by various writers. 43 vols. 1883-9. Quaritch. £15 15s. [This series contains nearly all the early quarto issues of the plays and poems, dating from 1593 to 1634, but the photographic repro- duction is not always trustworthy.] Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602. Ed. W. W. Greg. Tudor and Stuart Library. Clarendon Press. 5s. net. [A type-facsimile of theFirst Quarto, with learned textual annotation.] Shakespeare's Poems and Pericles ; reproduced in facsimile from the first editions, with introductions and bibliographies by Sidney Lee. Clarendon Press. 5 vols. £4 4s. net ; or in one volume £3 13s. ^d. net. [This series supplies work by Shakespeare which was excluded from the First Folio. The undertaking is designed to supplement the Oxford Folio facsimile mentioned above.] 2. GRAMMAR, PHONETICS, AND PROSODY Franz, Wilhelm. Shakespeare-Grammatik. 2 vols. Halle. Niemeyer. 18s. 6(7. [A somewhat more elaborate effort on the lines laid down by Dr. Abbott. The work has not been translated into English.] Vietor, Wilhelm. Shakespeare's Pronunciation. 2 vols. 1. Phonology, 6s. ; 2. Reader, 3s. 6rf. Marburg. Elwert. 1906. [An elaborate contribution to Elizabethan phonetics.] Saintsbuiy, Prof. George. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century. Vol. L From the Origins to Spenser. Vol. II. From Shakespeare to Crabbe. Macmillan. 10s. net each. 3. CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION «. Early Appreciations (before 1800) Smith, Prof. George Gregory. Elizabethan Critical Essays. 2 vols. Clarendon Press. 12s. net. Spingarn, Prof. J. E. Seventeenth Century Critical Essays. 3 vols. Clarendon Press. 5s. net each. Ker, W. P. Dryden's Essays. 2 vols. Clarendon Press. 8s. net. [The criticism in these seven volumes passes beyond the scope of Shakespeare's work, but much may be learned from them of the critical standard by which Shakespearian drama was first judged.] Jusserand, J. J. Shakespeare in France under the Ancient Regime. Unwin, 1889. 21s. net. h. General Estimates. tThe Cambridge History of English Literature. Ed. by Dr. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Vols. Ill and IV. Cambridge University Press. 9s. net each. [Vols. V and VI, the next volumes to be j)ublished, will deal with the Elizabethan and the Jacobean Drama.] A SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE LIBRARY 11 tCourthope, W. J. History of English Toetr}'. Vol. IV. Macinilhin. \0s. net. tJusserand, J. J. A Literary History of the English I'oople. Vol.111. Unwin. 12s. 6(1. net. [A valuable and exhaustive study of Shakespeare's work from a French point of view.] Baker, Prof. (J. P. The Development of Shakespeare as a Di-amatist. Mac- millan. 7s. Gd. c. Special Studies. Stapfer, Paul. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity. Kegan Paul, 1880. (Out of print.) Shakespeare's Ovid. Being Arthur (iolding's Translation of the Metamorphoses. Ed. from the edition of 1.j67. with introduction, by W. 11. D. Rouse. Fol. Chatto. i:ills. 6(/. Robertson, J. M. Montaigne and Shakespeare. Black. New edit. 1009. 76-. 6rf. net. [A comparison of Montaigne's philosophic views with those of Shakespeare. The parallelism is sometimes exaggerated by the author.] Naylor, E. W. Shakespeare and Music. With illustrations from the music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Dent. Ss. net. Elson, L. C. Shakespeare in Music. Nutt. 1901. 6*. net. Allen, Charles. Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare Question. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1900. [A sensible account of Shakespeare's use of legal terminology.] Bucknill, J. C. Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare. 1860. (Out of print.) Lee, Sidney. Shakespeare and the Modem Stage, with other Essays. Con- stable, 1907. 9.S. net. [The essays on the following subjects, — ' Shakespeare and the Eliza- bethan Playgoer,' ' Shakespeare in Oral Tradition,' ' Pepys and Shake- speare,' 'Aspects of Shakespeare's Philosophy,' 'Shakespeare and Patriotism,' — deal with aspects of Shakespearian study which are likely to interest students.] Moulton, Richard G. The moral system of Shakespeare : a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. Macmillan. 1903. 6$. net. IT J. BIOGRAPHY Gray. J. W. Shakespeare's Marriage and Departure from Stratford. Chap- man & Hall. 1905. lOs. M. net. Stopes, Mrs. C. C. Shakespeare's Family with account of the Ardens. Elliot Stock. 1901. 10«. 6rf. net. Stope.s, Mrs. C. C. Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries. Shakespeare Head Press, Stratfonl-on-Avon. 1907. Is. 6'/. net. 2. TOPOGRAPHY Ed. C. L. Kingsford. ^ ion Prcs-s. 190M. ZOs. m Bloom, J. Harvey. Shakespeare's Garden. Methuen. S.-*. 6rf. Stow's Survey of London. ?-d. C. L. Kingsford. With a map of London in 1600. 2 vols. Clarendon Prcs-s. 190M. ZOs. net. 12 A SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE LIBRARY 3. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT Drake, Nathan. Shakespeare and his Times. 1817. 2 vols. (Out of print.) Harrison's ' Description of England,' Part IV. Ed. F. J. Furnivall, with additions by Mrs. C. C. Stopes. Chatto. 17s. 6d. net. 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[Besides the main subject this volume contains the list of the library' of a certain Captain Cox which affords a good view of the popular literature of the day.] An Account of Shakespeare's England. Ed. Sidney Lee. Studies of social conditions by various writers, with many illustrations. Clarendon Press. (In preparation.) 4. CONTEIVIPOEARY DRAMATIC AND LITERARY HISTORY a. Dkamatic and Literary History. Henslowe's Diary. Printed verbatim and literatim from the Original MS. at Dulwich. Ed. W. W. Greg. 2 vols. Sidgwick & Jackson. £1 Is. net. [This diary is an important document for the history of the English Drama during the closing years of Elizabeth's reign.] Henslowe Papers. Being Documents Supplementary to 'Henslowe's Diary.' Ed. W. W. Greg. Sidgwick & Jackson. 10s. 6d. net. Creizenach, Wilhelm. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. Vol. IV. Das englische Drama im Zeitalter Shakespeares. Halle. Niemeyer. 17s. net. Saintsbury, Prof. George. The Earlier Renaissance. Blackwood. 5s. net. flannay, David. The Later Renaissance. Blackwood. 5s. net. Einstein, Lewis. The Italian Renaissance in England. Macmillan. 7s. Qd. net. Lee, Sidney. The French Renaissance in England. Clarendon Press. (In preparation.) b. London Theatres. Fleay, F. G. A Chronicle History of the London Stage, 1559-1642. 1890. (Out of print.) Fleay, F. G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642. 2 vols. 1891. (Out of print.) Wallace, C. W. Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars. 1908. A SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE LIBRARY 13 5. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE a. Drama. Bnindl, A. Quellen des welllichen Dramas in England vor Shakespeare. Strassburg. Trubner. 1898. '20s. net. The Complete Works of (Jeorge Gascoigne. Ed. Prof. J. W. Cunlitte. 2 vols. Cambridge English Classics. 9s. net. [Vol. I contains Gascoigne's plays, Supposes and Jocasta.] The Plays and Poems of Robert Greene. Ed. J. Churton Collins. 2 vols. Clarendon Press. 18.>.-. net. 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Chambers.] The Malone Society, founded in 1906, publishes sixteenth-century plays, care- fully edited in type facsimile. The Hon. Secretiiry is Mr. Arundell Esdaile, British Museum, and the subscription is a guinea a year. The Society's publications form a valuable series of works of reference, b. Poetry The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts. Clarendon Press. 9.-*. net each volume. [The text is carefully collated with the original editions. Vols. II and III, ed. J. C. Smith, containing The Faerie Qneene, have appeared ; Vol. I, ed. E. de Selincourt, containing the minor poems, is in the press.] Campion's Complete Works. Ed. Percival V^ivian. Oxford English Texts. Clarendon Pres.s. \0s. dd. net. [The t«xt carefully collated with the original editions.) Elizabethan Sonnets. Newly arranged and indexed. With intro*luction by Sidney Lee. 2 vols. Arber's English (Jarner. Constal)le, 1904. in. net each. Some longer Eliziibethan Poems. With introduction by A. H. 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