The Works Of Mr William Shakespear Vol 2

Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330021781
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Works of William Shakespear, Vol. 2 of 3 written by Charles Knight and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of William Shakespear, Vol. 2 of 3 Of the second nnd third parts of Henry VI., copies in quarto, under different titles, lengthened in some speeches, and abbreviated in others, are extant; but the first part of Henrv VI. appeared originally in the collected edition of Mr. William ShaKespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, put forth under the care of his fellow-actors, Heminget and Condell. This single fact is sufficient, in our mind, to establish Shakespeares claim to the authorship of it, even were we to take Malones assertion for granted (which we are by . jmeans inclined to do) that the internal evidence is i opposed to that claim. When Heminge and CcjJeii published the folio of 1623, many of Shakespeares contemporaries, authors, actors, and auditors, were alive; and the player-editors, if they would have been guilty of the dishonesty, would hardly have committed the folly of inserting a play in their volume which was not his production, and perhaps well known to have been the work of some rival dramatist. If we imagine the frequenters of theatres to have been comparatively ignorant upon Buch a point, living authors and living actors must have been aware of the truth, and in the face of these Heminge and Condell would not have ventured to appropriate to Shakespeare what had really come from the pen of another. That tricks of the kind were sometimes played by fraudulent booksellers, in publishing single plays, is certainly true; but Heminge and Coudell were actors of repute, and men of character: they were presenting to the world, in ar. important volume, scattered performances, in order to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, and we cannot believe that they vrould have included any drama to which he had no title. In all probability they had acted with Shakespeare in the first part of Henry VI.: they had received his instructions and directions from time to time with reference to the performance of it, and they must almost necessarily have been acquainted with the real state of the property in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.