This century

begins with the end of the Enlightenment Variorum tradtion (1803, 1813, 1821), ends with the beginning of the second generation of Variorum texts (1871-), each one an encyclopedia of a given play, and produces almost double the number of collected works and single versions of our play.

The editions of Singer (1826) and Knight (1841) represent the new dispensation, without the encrusted layers of commentary dating from the first Variorum of 1773.

The conjectures and emendations industry is at its height, from Seymour (1805) to Walker (1854, 1860) to Kinnear (1883) and Elze (1890).

The controversy over the work of the skilled editor and commentator as well as forger, John Payne Collier, is the central event of Shakespeare scholarship and criticism of the middle of the century. He annotated a copy of the Second Folio with faux secretary hand and produced a commentary and edition (1853) based on this chicanery, which contains, nevertheless, many fine and useful comments on Julius Caesar and other plays.

Here is a link to the Editions page (1623-1919).

Here is a link to the Shakespeariana page.

The Three Variorum Editions

Reed v1803, v.16

Reed v1813, v.16

Boswell-Malone v1821, v.12

Samuel Weller Singer

Singer 1 1826, v.8

Singer 2 1856, v.8

Singer, Text Vindicated (1853)

[on Collier]

Charles Knight

Knight 1 1841 [1846 rpt.], v.7

Knight 2 1844, v.10

Knight 3 1867 v.6

Knight, Studies of Shakspere (1868)

Henry Hudson

Hudson 1 1855, v.8

Hudson School Shakespeare 1871, v. 1

Hudson 2, 1879 [1888 rpt.]

Hudson, Life, v.1 (1872)

Hudson, Life, v.2 (1872)

Craik, Dyce, Staunton, Keightley, White

Craik 1857

Dyce 1 1857, v.5

Staunton 1860, v.3

John Hunter 1861

White 1 1861, v.10

Keightley, ed. 1864
[1866 rpt.], v.5

Keightley, Shakespeare Expositor (1867)

Dyce 2 1865, v.6

Rolfe 1872 [1889 rpt.]

White 2 1883

John Payne Collier

Collier 1 1843, v.5

Collier 1 1843 , v.7
[notes to JC]

Collier 2 1853

Collier 3 1858, v.8

Collier 4 1878, v.6

Collier Controversy

Dyce, Remarks (1844)

Collier, Notes and Emendations (1853)

Singer, Text Vindicated (1853)

Lettsom, “New Readings, [I]” Blackwood’s 74 (454) (Aug. 1853)

Lettsom, “New Readings, II” Blackwood’s 74 (455) (Sept. 1853)

Lettsom, “New Readings, III” Blackwood’s 74 (456) (Oct. 1853)

Dyce, A Few Notes (1853)

White, Shakespeare’s Scholar (1854)

Dyce, Strictures on Collier (1859)

Ingleby, Complete View (1861)

Clark and Wright

Clark-Wright Globe 1864

Clark-Wright Cambridge 1 1865, v.7

Wright Clarendon 1 1878

Wright Cambridge 2 1892 [1904 rpt.], v.7

Biographies

Skottowe, Life, v. 1 (1824)

Skottowe, Life, v. 2 (1824)

Knight, Biography (1843)

Hallliwell-Phillipps, Life (1848)

Hudson, Life, v.1 (1872)

Hudson, Life, v.2 (1872)

Elze, Literary Biography (1889)

Glossaries, Concordances, and Lexicons

Nares, Glossary (1822)

Halliwell and Wright, Glossary, v. 1 (1859)

Halliwell and Wright, Glossary, v. 2 (1859)

Jervis, Dictionary (1867)

Abbott, A Shakespearian Grammar (1870)

Schmidt, Shakespeare-Lexicon, v. 1 (1874)

Schmidt, Shakespeare-Lexicon, v. 2 (1875)

Mackay, Obscure Words and Phrases (1884)

Bartlett, Concordance, v. 1 (1894)

Bartlett, Concordance, v. 2 (1894)

Conjectures and Emenders

Seymour, Remarks, v. 1 (1805)

Seymour, Remarks, v. 2 (1805)

Douce, Illustrations, v. 1 (1807)

Douce, Illustrations, v. 2 (1807)

Becket, Shakespeare’s Himself Again (1815)

Jackson, Seven Hundred Errors (1818)

Jackson, Shakespeare’s Genius Justified (1819)

Courtenay, Commentaries, v. 1 (1840)

Courtenay, Commentaries, v. 2 (1840)

Joseph Hunter, New Illustrations, v. 1 (1845)

Joseph Hunter, New Illustrations, v. 2 (1845)

Maginn, Shakespeare Papers (1856)

Adams, Manuscript Corrections (1854)

Walker, Critical Examination, v. 1 (1860)

Walker, Critical Examination, v. 2 (1860)

Walker, Critical Examination, v. 3 (1860)

Jervis, Proposed Emendations (1861)

Bailey, Received Text, v. 1 (1862)

Bailey, Received Text, v. 2 (1862)

Cartwright, New Readings (1866)

Ingleby, Still Lion (1874)

Herr, Scattered Notes (1879)

Kinnear, Cruces Shakespearianae (1883)

Perring, Hard Knots in Shakespeare (1885)

Elze, Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists (1889)

Orger, Critical Notes (1890)

Criticism

Fleay on Jonson in Julius Caesar (1874)

Furnivall responds to Fleay (1874)

Dowden, Shakspere: A Critical Study (1875)

J. Macmillan Brown, Julius Caesar: A Critical Study (1883)

Moulton, Shakespeare as Dramatic Artist (1893)

Brandes, Critical Study, v. 1 (1898)

Brandes, Critical Study, v. 2 (1898)

Miscellaneous

Walker, Shakespeare’s Versification (1854)

Bathurst, Remarks on Shakespeare’s Versification (1857)

Rushton, Shakespeare Illustrated, pt. 1 (1867)

Rushton, Shakespeare Illustrated, pt. 2 (1868)

Knight, Studies of Shakspere (1868)

Green, Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers (1870)

Green, Andreae Alciati Emblematum Fontes Quatuor (1870)

 

Green, Andrea Alciati and His Book of Emblems (1872)

Fleay, Shakespeare Manual (1876)

Stokes, Chronological Order (1878)

Hales, Notes and Essays (1886)

Caldecott, Spoils (1891)

Wordsworth, Shakspeare’s Use and Knowledge of the Bible (1892)

Binz, “Londoner Theater und Schauspiele im Jahr 1599,” Anglia 22 (1899) [transcription of Thomas Platter’s account of Julius Caesar and other plays at the Globe, in German]

[Here is a translation of Platter’s account and a brief biography of Binz]