THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES.

WITH

THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

VARIOUS COMMENTATORS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

NOTES,

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

REVISED AND AUGMENTED

BY ISAAC REED,

WITH A GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ ΗΝ, ΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΜΟΝ ΑΠΟΒΡΕΧΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΝΟΥΝ,

Vet. Auct. apud. Suidam.

Time, which is continually washing away the dissoluble Fabricks of other

Poets, passes without Injury by the Adamant of SHAKSPEARE.

Dr. Johnson's Preface.

MULTA DIES, VARIUSQUE LABOR MUTABILIS ÆVI

RETULIT IN MELIUS, MULTOS ALTERNA REVISENS

LUSIT, ET IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Virgil.

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Proposals by William Richardfon

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Anecdotes of Shakspeare from Oldys, &c.

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Shakspeare's Coat of Arms

Shakspeare's Mortgage

Shakspeare's Will

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VOL. II.

Dr. Farmer's Effay on the Learning of Shak-

fpeare

Colman's Remarks on it

Ancient Tranflations from Claffick Authors

Entries of Shakspeare's Plays on the Stationers'

Books

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Lift of ancient Editions of Shakspeare's

Plays

Lift of modern Editions

Lift of ancient Editions of Shakspeare's

Poems

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Lift of modern ditto

Lift of altered Plays from Shakspeare

Lift of detached Pieces of Criticism on Shak-

fpeare, his Editors, &c.

Commendatory Verfes on Shakspeare

Malone's Attempt to ascertain the Order of

Shakspeare's Plays

Malone's Effay on Ford's Pamphlet, &c.
Steevens's Remarks on it

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VOL. III.

Malone's hiftorical Account of the English
Stage

Additions

Additions by Steevens

Further hiftorical Account by Chalmers

Addenda by the fame

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