By Andrew Murphy
This accomplished reference surveys the modifying and publishing of Shakespeare's texts from the Renaissance via our personal time. Andrew Murphy not just covers the entire significant scholarly versions. He additionally contains mass industry renowned versions and levels commonly around the wealthy box of Shakespeare publishing. Murphy's finished directory of significant Shakespeare versions makes this quantity a useful easy examine source.
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Wriothesley was just nineteen years old at the time, a ward of the powerful William Cecil, Elizabeth’s Lord High Treasurer, with whom he had a turbulent relationship. The motivation for dedicating the poem to Southampton would in large measure have been mercenary. Shakespeare – the largest segment of his income cut off as a result of the shut-down of the theatres – would have hoped for a financial return on his dedication. 7 The truth of this story is highly questionable, but, nevertheless, it does seem likely that he received some form of return for the Venus and Adonis dedication, since, in the very next year, he dedicated a second narrative poem – The Rape of Lucrece – to the same patron.
34 A second edition of Romeo and Juliet (Q2) appeared two years later, in 1599, this time published by Cuthbert Burbie and 24 Shakespeare in Print printed by Thomas Creed. Like Richard Field, Creed had been employed by William Ponsonby, for whom he produced editions of such works as the second part of Robert Greene’s Mamillia (1593), Machiavelli’s Florentine History (1595) and Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clouts Come Home Again (1595). The title provided in the Burbie/Creed edition of Romeo and Juliet broadly follows the conventions registered in Danter’s first edition (by this time, Lord Hunsdon had become the Lord Chamberlain, and so the company’s name is duly upgraded): The Most Excellent and lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet.
Likewise, Thomas Creed printed an attenuated version of The Merry Wives of Windsor for Arthur Johnson in 1602; this text was reprinted in 1619, but an alternative and more expansive version of the text was produced for Richard Meighen by Thomas Harper in 1630. In Meighen’s edition the text is described on the title page as ‘Newly corrected’. This latter edition was effectively a reprint of the text which had been presented in the First Folio collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays published seven years earlier in 1623.