Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice . pies. The prefacealso condemns all preceding editions of separate plays^ as stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed bythe frauds and stealths .of injurious impostors, while it claimsthat the publishers of this volume had the use of the authorsmanuscripts. They probably had the use of such of his pa-pers as were in the possession of the Blackfriars Theatre, to * Eighteen of the Plays are known to have been separately printed,some of them more than once, in Shakespeares lifetime. Othello was alsoprinted separately in 1622. All these e
Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice . pies. The prefacealso condemns all preceding editions of separate plays^ as stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed bythe frauds and stealths .of injurious impostors, while it claimsthat the publishers of this volume had the use of the authorsmanuscripts. They probably had the use of such of his pa-pers as were in the possession of the Blackfriars Theatre, to * Eighteen of the Plays are known to have been separately printed,some of them more than once, in Shakespeares lifetime. Othello was alsoprinted separately in 1622. All these editions are in quarto form,, and arecommonly known as the old or early quartos. 5 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF which they, like himself, belonged. The volume, however, ap-pears to have had no proper editing, and every page is dis-figured by the grossest typographical errors. While it is theearliest and the only authentic edition of the Plays, it cannotbe accepted as anything like an infallible authority in allcases for what Shakespeare actually STRATFORD CHURCH, WEST END. The volume just described is commonly known as the firstfolio. A second folio edition, including the same plays, ap-peared in 1632. It contains some new readings, which are SHAKESPEARE. 7 probably nothing more than the conjectural emendations ofthe unknown editor. A third folio edition was issued in 1664. This containsthe thirty-six Plays of the preceding folios, with Pericles andsix dramas^ not included in the modern editions. A fourthand last folio reprint followed in 1685.
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