Authority Cited: Shakespeare
Author name and dates: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: drama quotes are from the Warburton edition title below. Details of more than 17,000 quotations in the 1755 Dict. are in microfiche associated with: Thomas, E.J., "A Bibliographical and Critical Analysis of Johnson's Dictionary, with Special Reference to Twentieth Century Scholarship," D.Phil. Dissertation, University of Aberystwyth, 1974. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, p.122, indicates 21 Shakespeare cites were added in 1773 Dict., vol. 2. Some Shakespeare cites were added in 1773 Dict. vol. 1; e.g. all (several added cites, including "Song in Shakesp."). The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. indicates the following Shakespeare items: 131 Warburton's Shakespeare, 8 v.; 179 Shakespeare's plays, by Steevens, 4v. 1766; 353 Shakespear's plays 1664; 467 Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies 1623; 493 2. Stockdale's Shakespeare, 1784. . . .; 516 12 volumes of Shakespeare's. See also Greene's comments and corrections to these entries in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide. Also noted by Greene: 45 7. Grey's notes on Shakespear, 2v., &c.; 261 6. Remarks on Shakespeare,, &c. (Greene lists 261 under Ritson and notes there is a copy in the Folger Library.]
Author name and dates: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
BKG Bio-tweet: Extraordinary commoner playwright continues to draw crowds and to challenge the self-image of some in British upper class
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: drama quotes are from the Warburton edition title below. Details of more than 17,000 quotations in the 1755 Dict. are in microfiche associated with: Thomas, E.J., "A Bibliographical and Critical Analysis of Johnson's Dictionary, with Special Reference to Twentieth Century Scholarship," D.Phil. Dissertation, University of Aberystwyth, 1974. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, p.122, indicates 21 Shakespeare cites were added in 1773 Dict., vol. 2. Some Shakespeare cites were added in 1773 Dict. vol. 1; e.g. all (several added cites, including "Song in Shakesp."). The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. indicates the following Shakespeare items: 131 Warburton's Shakespeare, 8 v.; 179 Shakespeare's plays, by Steevens, 4v. 1766; 353 Shakespear's plays 1664; 467 Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies 1623; 493 2. Stockdale's Shakespeare, 1784. . . .; 516 12 volumes of Shakespeare's. See also Greene's comments and corrections to these entries in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide. Also noted by Greene: 45 7. Grey's notes on Shakespear, 2v., &c.; 261 6. Remarks on Shakespeare,, &c. (Greene lists 261 under Ritson and notes there is a copy in the Folger Library.]
- The works of Shakespear : in eight volumes : the genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled, being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last : with a comment and notes, critical and explanatory [Warburton edition]; per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, p.204, Plays of William Shakespeare (1747), 8 vol., lacking vol. 6, marked by SJ, is at University College, Aberystwyth- PR.2752.P8.
- All’s Well
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV Part 1
- Henry IV Part 2
- Henry V & Prologue
- Henry VI Part 1
- Henry VI Part 2
- Henry VI Part 3
- Henry VII
- Henry VIII & Prologue & Epilogue
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love’s Labours Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- Merchant of Venice
- Merry Wives of Winsor
- Mid Summer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado
- Othello
- [Rape of Lucrece] Tarq. and Luc.
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music (Supplementary title page in The Passionate Pilgrim – poem quoted is by Marlowe)
- Taming of the Shrew
- Tempest
- Timon [of Athens]
- Titus [Andronicus]
- Troilus and Cressida & Prologue
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Winter’s Tale
- Shakespeare (no work cited)