Doubtful Plays, Shakespeare 1734-35
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2Crypto-Willobie
Not enough information. It sounds like a collection of the so-called "Shakespeare Apocrypha" but I can't find a record of one published in 1734-5. The closest I find is a supplementary volume of 'Doubtful Plays' in Knight's Pictorial Shakespeare of 1839. WC Hazlitt had a volume by that name in the later 19c but 1734 is too early for him. Who's the publisher? the editor? what plays are included? I can tell you a fair amount about the apocryphal plays...
3dkathman
Could it be a custom-bound volume of individual plays with that title on the spine? I would also like to know what plays are in it.
4JaceWolff
Yes, it does look like it is separate plays bound together. I know so little about something like this I didn't have a way to explain it. The title on the spine is, Doubtful Plays. Shakespeare 1734-1735.
Inside it states: LONDON: Printed for J. Tonson and the rest of the Proprietors; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster.-----------MDCCXXXIV (some MDCCXXXV)
The plays are:
The London Prodigal. A Comedy.
The Puritan: Or the Widow of Watling-Street.
The Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
The History of Sir John Oldcastle, The Good Lord Cobham.
A Yorkshire Tragedy.
The Tragedy of Locrine the Eldest Son of King Brutus.
Thanks in advace for helping me understand what this is.
Cheers
Inside it states: LONDON: Printed for J. Tonson and the rest of the Proprietors; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster.-----------MDCCXXXIV (some MDCCXXXV)
The plays are:
The London Prodigal. A Comedy.
The Puritan: Or the Widow of Watling-Street.
The Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
The History of Sir John Oldcastle, The Good Lord Cobham.
A Yorkshire Tragedy.
The Tragedy of Locrine the Eldest Son of King Brutus.
Thanks in advace for helping me understand what this is.
Cheers
5Crypto-Willobie
Jabob Tonson was the copyright holder of Shakespeare's works in the early 18th century and issued collected editions from various editors including Nicholas Rowe and Alexander Pope. The book you saw is probably intended as supplemental to one of these editions -- not sure which one -- but it seems to be referred to here: http://books.google.com/books?id=c_QuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=...
At any rate, these seven plays were first included as supplemental to Shakespeare's standard works in the 1664 second impression of the 1663 Third Folio, by reason of their having been published individually under Shakespeare's name or initials during his lifetime, but not having been collected in the First Folio of 1623 -- the first official collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. Some of these publications were instances of unscrupulous booksellers using Shakespeare's name to help sell a play they had in hand; some of these were published only as by "W.S." -- conceivably someone else with the same initials.
Of these only Pericles is now accepted as being (in part) by Shakespeare. The Puritan and A Yorkshire Tragedy have been assigned by scholars to Thomas Middleton. Sir John Oldcastle (actually a reply to Shakespeare's Henry IV plays) is known from Henslowe's Diary to be a collaboration between Anthony Munday and three other playwrights; while Locrine, London Prodigal and Cromwell remain anonymous.
These and other plays (including Two Noble Kinsmen, Arden of Faversham, Edward III and others) have several times over the centuries been gathered into collections of 'doubtful' plays, most recently under the designation "Shakespeare Apocrypha" by C F Tucker Brooke in 1908.
Hope this helps!
At any rate, these seven plays were first included as supplemental to Shakespeare's standard works in the 1664 second impression of the 1663 Third Folio, by reason of their having been published individually under Shakespeare's name or initials during his lifetime, but not having been collected in the First Folio of 1623 -- the first official collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. Some of these publications were instances of unscrupulous booksellers using Shakespeare's name to help sell a play they had in hand; some of these were published only as by "W.S." -- conceivably someone else with the same initials.
Of these only Pericles is now accepted as being (in part) by Shakespeare. The Puritan and A Yorkshire Tragedy have been assigned by scholars to Thomas Middleton. Sir John Oldcastle (actually a reply to Shakespeare's Henry IV plays) is known from Henslowe's Diary to be a collaboration between Anthony Munday and three other playwrights; while Locrine, London Prodigal and Cromwell remain anonymous.
These and other plays (including Two Noble Kinsmen, Arden of Faversham, Edward III and others) have several times over the centuries been gathered into collections of 'doubtful' plays, most recently under the designation "Shakespeare Apocrypha" by C F Tucker Brooke in 1908.
Hope this helps!
