Notes And Emendations To The Text Of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy
by John Payne Collier
2021-06-04 22:53:49
Notes And Emendations To The Text Of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy
by John Payne Collier
2021-06-04 22:53:49
The editor and forger John Payne Collier (1789-1883) claimed to have discovered a Second Folio of Shakespeare which had been ''corrected'' in a mid-seventeenth-century hand. He published this catalogue of the emendations, including his commentary on ...
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The editor and forger John Payne Collier (1789-1883) claimed to have discovered a Second Folio of Shakespeare which had been ''corrected'' in a mid-seventeenth-century hand. He published this catalogue of the emendations, including his commentary on them, in 1852. Collier then presented the so-called ''Perkins Folio'' to the Duke of Devonshire, whose successor allowed it to be loaned in 1859 to the British Museum, where a thorough examination exposed it as a forgery. A storm of controversy followed and three of the key documents in the debate, all published in 1860, are also reissued here: ''An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier''s Annotated Shakspere Folio, 1632'' by Nicholas Hamilton (d.1915), assistant keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum; Collier''s attempt to refute Hamilton''s findings; and ''A Review of the Present State of the Shakespearian Controversy'' by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-78).
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