An edition of Works (Hamlet / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Henry IV. Part 2 / King Henry V / King John / King Lear / King Richard II / King Richard III / Lover's Complaint / Love’s Labour’s Lost / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night’s Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Taming of the Shrew / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida) (1766)

Twenty of the plays

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An edition of Works (Hamlet / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Henry IV. Part 2 / King Henry V / King John / King Lear / King Richard II / King Richard III / Lover's Complaint / Love’s Labour’s Lost / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night’s Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Taming of the Shrew / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida) (1766)

Twenty of the plays

of Shakespeare, being the whole number printed in quarto during his life-time, ... collated where there were different copies, and publish'd from the originals, by George Steevens, Esq; in four volumes. ...

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Hamlet
King Henry IV. Part 1
King Henry IV. Part 2
King Henry V
King John
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Lover's Complaint
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnets
Taming of the Shrew
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

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printed for J. and R. Tonson, T. Payne, and W. Richardson

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mistaken identities, performing arts, comedy, Drama, Conspiracies, Rejection (Psychology), Courtship, Juvenile drama, Plays, English drama, Fiction, Classic Literature, English drama (Comedy), Juvenile literature, Youth, Vendetta, Love-Romance-Fiction, Classic-Classical Literature, Suspense-Fiction, Conflict of generations, English literature, Children's plays, Dramatic production, English Young adult drama, Tragedy, Suicide, Love in adolescence, English Love stories, Man-woman relationships, Families, Shakespeare plays, texts, Succession, Fathers, Regicide, fathers succession, quartos, regicides, production and direction, inheritance and succession, Britons, English plays, ageing parents, scripts, fathers and daughters, English language, open_syllabus_project, Princes, English drama (Tragedy), Kings and rulers, Murder victims' families, Revenge, Death, Homicide, English, Drama texts, Drama texts: from c 1900 -, Tragedies, Victims of crimes

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Claudius, Hamlet, Polonius, Horatio, Laertes, Voltimand, Cornelius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osric, Gentleman, Priest, Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo, Players, Two Clowns, Fortinbras, Captain, English Ambassadors, Gertrude, Ophelia, Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, Attendants, Ghost of Hamlet's father, Juliet Capulet, Romeo Montague, Escalus, Mercutio, Paris, Lady Montague, Benvolio, Abram, Balthasar, Lady Capulet, Tybalt, Sampson, Peter, Gregory, Friar Lawrence, Friar John, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Don Pedro, Don John, Claudio, Benedick, Leonato, Antonio, Borachio, Conrade, Friar Francis, Dogberry, Verges, A Sexton, A Boy, Hero, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula, Watch

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Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Verona, Messina

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Twenty of the plays: of Shakespeare, being the whole number printed in quarto during his life-time, ... collated where there were different copies, and publish'd from the originals, by George Steevens, Esq; in four volumes. ...
1766, printed for J. and R. Tonson, T. Payne, and W. Richardson
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Table of Contents

v. 1. A midsommer nights dreame, 1600 ; A pleasant comedy of the merry wiues of Windsor, 1619 ; The merry wiues of Windsor, 1630 ; Much adoe about nothing, 1600 ; The comicall history of the merchant of Venice, 1600 ; Loues labour's lost, 1631 --
v. 2. The taming of the shrew, 1631 ; The history of King Lear, 1608 ; The troublesome raigne of King Iohn, in two parts, 1611 ; The tragedie of Richard the Second, 1615 ; The historie of Henry the Fourth, 1613 ; The second part of Henry the Fourth, 1600 --
v. 3. The chronicle history of Henry the Fift, 1608 ; The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts, (no date) ; The tragedie of Richard the Third, 1612 ; The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus, 1611 ; The history of Troylus and Cresseida, 1609 --
v. 4. The most excellent tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, 1597 ; The most lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet, 1609 ; The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, 1611 ; The tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice, 1622 ; Shakespeares sonnets and Louers complaint, 1609 ; The history of King Leir and his three daughters, 1605.

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Eighteenth Century -- reel 10076, no. 04.

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4v. ;

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OL13461202M

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