1840-1850 13 Vols Works from The SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY

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Works from The Shakespeare Society 1841: The Debate between Pride and Lowliness: By Francis Thynn. 1841: The School of Abuse, containing A Pleasant Invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters &c. By Stephen Gosson. 1842: Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. 1842: Pierce Penniless's Supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. 1842: Timon, A Play. 1843: Honour Triumphant; and A Line of Life: Two Tracts by John Forde, the Dramatist, unknown to the Editors of his Works, and Now First Reprinted from the Original Copies. 1843: A Treatise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes. With Other Idle Pastimes. By John Northbrooke. 1844: The Old Taming of a Shrew, Upon which Shakespeare Founded his Comedy. 1846: The Fair Maid of the Exchange; A Comedy, by Thomas Heywood: and Fourtune by Land and Sea; a Tragi-comedy, by Thomas Heywood and William Rowley. 1848: The Moral Play of Wit and Science, and Early Poetical Miscellanies. 1850: The Royal King, and Loyal Subject. A Woman Killed with Kindness. Two Plays by Thomas Heywood. With an Introduction and Notes, By J. Payne Collier, Esq. 1850: The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood. With the Life of the Poet, and Remarks on his Writings by J. Payne Collier, Esq. Volume I. 1851: Two Historical Plays on the Life and Reign of Queen Elizabeth. By Thomas Heywood. 1841 - 1851 - London - Printed for The Shakespeare Society

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1841-1851

The Shakespeare Society : London

9" by 6"

 

   

SUMMARY

  A remarkable sixteen volume set of literary criticism concerning Renaissance drama printed for the Shakespeare Society.

Scarce

Overall Condition: Very Good

This book weighs 5 KG when packed

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DESCRIPTION

Several of these works are edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Payne Collier.

The Shakespeare Society was founded, in part, by John Payne Collier, who served as its director. From 1840, the society was responsible for the publication of numerous volumes containing works of drama and theatrical history, with particular interest in Shakespeare and his contemporaries of Renaissance drama.

John Payne Collier, 1789 – 1883, is most famously remembered as a Shakespearean critic and alleged forger.

CONDITION

Bound in cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and blind stamped decoration to the front and rear board. Externally generally smart with slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Slight discolouration to the boards. One volume has a small label to the front board. Hinges are slightly strained but firm. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with slight browning and the occasional spot.

Overall Condition: Very Good

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• Condition: Good
• Subject: Literary Criticism
• Sub-Subject: None
• Binding: Cloth
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Year Printed: 1841
• Language: English
• Special Attributes: None
• Author: Various
• Publisher: The Shakespeare Society
• Illustrator: None

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