The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
3. CORIOLANUS was first published in the Folio of 1623. The text
abounds with errors, due, probably, to the carelessness or the
illegibility of the transcript from which it was printed.
4. TITUS ANDRONICUS was, so far as we know[A], published for the first
time in the year 1600, in Quarto, with the following title-page:
The most lamenta-|ble Romaine Tragedie of _Titus_ |
_Andronicus_. | As it hath sundry times beene playde by the |
Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke, the | Earle of Darbie,
the Earle of Sussex, and the | Lorde Chamberlaine theyr |
Seruants. | AT LONDON, | Printed by I. R. for Edward White |
and are to bee solde at his shoppe, at the little | North doore
of Paules, at the signe of | the Gun. 1600. |
[A] In the Registers of the Stationers' Company are the following
entries with regard to a book called 'Titus Andronicus,' but it is
more than doubtful whether any of them refer to the editions of the
play of that name which have come down to us. It will be seen that
the entry under the date, 19 April, 1602, speaks of a transference of
copyright from Thomas Millington to Thomas Pavier, but as both the
extant editions of the play, printed respectively in 1600 and 1611,
were published by Edward White, the entry can have reference to neither
of these.
6 February, 1593.
John Danter. Entered for his copye under handes of
bothe the wardens a booke intituled, A Noble
Roman-Historye of Tytus Andronicus. vjᵈ.
1602. 19 April.
Tho. Pavier. Entred for his copies by assignmᵗ from
Thomas Millington these bookes folowing; salvo
jure cuiuscumque--
viz.
A booke called Thomas of Reading. vjᵈ.
The first and second pts of Henry the VIᵗ. ij
bookes. xijᵈ.
A booke called Titus and Andronic'. vjᵈ.
Under the date 14ᵒ Dec. 1624, among a list of 'Ballades' is mentioned
'Titus and Andronmus.' Again, on 8ᵒ Novemb. 1630, is an entry assigning
to Ric. Cotes from Mr Bird 'all his estate right title and interest in
the Copies hereafter menconed,' and in the list which follows is 'Titus
and Andronicus.' On 4 Aug. 1626, Thomas Pavier had assigned his right
in Titus Andronicus to Edw. Brewster and Rob. Birde, so that apparently
the same book is spoken of here as in the entry under the date 19
April, 1602. This being the case, it is difficult to account for the
fact that a book, which in 1602 was the property of Thomas Millington,
should in 1600 have been printed for Edward White, and that, after
the transference of the copyright from Millington to Pavier, a second
edition of the same book should have been printed in 1611 for the same
Edward White. No edition with Millington's name on the title has yet
been found.
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