The earliest texts of William Shakespeare's works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes;...

figures cannot be known. See Shakespearean authorship, Shakespeare's collaborations and Shakespeare Apocrypha for further details. The identical dates may...

similar concept of separate editions of plays is known as comedia suelta. Book size Bookbinding Folio Octavo Early texts of Shakespeare's works English Renaissance...

(1663–64), and Fourth Folios (1685) than about the First; see early texts of Shakespeare's works. In the 18th century, however, interested individuals made...

relative chronology of Shakespeare's oeuvre by various means, using external evidence (such as references to the plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries in...

quartos of Shakespeare's plays. [See: Early texts of Shakespeare's works.] Nothing is known of Simmes's early life or personal history. He was active...

of Avon". Shakespeare bibliography Chronology of Shakespeare's plays William Shakespeare's collaborations Complete Works of Shakespeare Early texts of...

Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number...

works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama. Shakespeare's plays...

can understand texts written in the late phase of Early Modern English, such as the King James Bible and the works of William Shakespeare, and they have...

after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published. Printed in folio format and containing 36 of Shakespeare's plays...

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference...

Tillyard, E. M. W Shakespeare's History Plays. New York, 1944, p. 174. Pitcher, Seymour M., The Case for Shakespeare's Authorship of 'The Famous Victories'...

Many works have been pointed to as possible sources for Shakespeare's play, from ancient Greek tragedies to Elizabethan dramas. The editors of the Arden...

printed several first editions and early texts of Shakespeare's works. Short became a "freeman" (full member) of the Stationers Company on 1 March 1589...

lawsuits, records of payments, and references to Shakespeare and his works in printed and hand-written texts. Nevertheless, hundreds of biographies have...

largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in...

undisputed pseudonym in the same texts." List of Shakespeare plays in quarto Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Shakespeare's contemporary, signed his surname...

with Shakespeare. Like many of Shakespeare's works, the Shakespeare authorship question has also entered into fiction of various genres. An early example...

Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation (OP) is a movement dedicated to the examination and subsequent performance of Shakespeare's works in the phonology...

The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever...

Shakespeare's grief over the loss of his only son may lie at the heart of the tragedy. Speculation over Hamnet's influence on Shakespeare's works is...

Shakespeare's plays were written for performance by his own company, and because no law prevented rival companies from using the plays, Shakespeare's...

non-dramatic works, not Shakespeare's, a view to which Foster conceded. Chronology of Shakespeare's plays Early texts of Shakespeare's works Higher criticism...

early version of Shakespeare's own play, and point to the fact that Shakespeare's version survives in three quite different early texts, Q1 (1603), Q2...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (also known as The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)) is a play written by Adam Long, Daniel...

Shakespeare's death in 1616. It is believed to have been commissioned by the poet's son-in-law, John Hall, and must have been seen by Shakespeare's widow...

family copy of Edward Hall's Chronicles, an important source for Shakespeare's early histories, "indicate the probability that Shakespeare and the annotator...

Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, edited by William George Clark and John Glover, as revised in 1891–93. The list of the first series...

three-fifths are mostly Shakespeare's, following Gary Taylor's claim that by the middle of the Jacobean decade, "Shakespeare's poetic style had become...