The Works Of William Shakespeare Vol 19

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483286849
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 19 of 20 written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 19 of 20: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-Notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index Altered, and Eastward H0! In the composition of which he had been engaged with others; and when the player-editors of the folio of 1623 were collecting their materials, they perhaps omitted Pericles because some living author might have an interest in it; and the fact that the publishers of the folio could not purchase the right of the bookseller, who had then the property in Peri cles, may have been the real cause of its non-insertion. As to the time of the writing, we have seen the title-page of 1609 describing Pericles as the late and much admired play. It is also spoken of as a new play, in a poetical tract entitled Run Red-cap, printed in 1609. But the most decisive item of evidence in this behalf is a novel by George Wilkins published in 1608, with a title-page reading as follows: The Painful Ad ventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; being the true History of the Play of Pericles, as it was lately presented by the worthy and ancient Poet, John Gower. As the novel was thus avowedly founded on the play, the latter could hardly have been written later than 1607; and the great popularity of the drama was prob ably what induced Wilkins to set forth the matter in another form. The novel, as may be seen from several extracts here given in the notes, is of considerable value in helping to clear up some points in the text of the play. And the greater completeness of some of the speeches, as there given, is further argument that the fext of the play has reached us in a mangled and imperfect state. 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.