Series I. The following Publications of the New Shakspere Society HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR 1874: Transactions: The New Shakspere Society's Transactions, Part I, containing four Papers by the Rev. F. G. Fleay, M.A., with Reports of the Discussions on them, a Table of the Quarto Editions of Shakspere's Works, 1593-1630, and a print of the genuine Parts of Timon and Pericles; with an Appendix containing, 1. Mr James Spedding's Paper on the several shares of SHAKSPERE and FLETCHER in Henry VIII, with the late Mr S. Hickson's, Mr Fleay's, and Mr Furnivall's independent confirmations of Mr Spedding's results. 2. The late Mr S. Hickson's Paper on the several shares of SHAKSPERE and FLETCHER (when young) in the Two Noble Kinsmen, with Mr Fleay's and Mr Furnivall's Notes, and Tables of Metrical Tests, confirming Mr Hickson's results. Series II. Plays: 1. A Parallel-Text Edition of the first two Quartos of Romeo and Juliet, 1597 and 1599, arranged so as to show their Differences, and with Collations of all the Quartos and Folios, edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. This Edition is presented to the Society by H. R. H. Prince Leopold, one of its Vice-Presidents. 2, 3. The First two Quartos of Romeo and Juliet, 1597 and 1599: simple Reprints, edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. 6 Series IV. Shakspere Allusion-Books. Part I. a. Greenes Groatesworth of Wit [written in 1592], 1596; b. Henry Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame' [written in 1593]; c. Englandes Mourning Garment' [1603]; d. A Mourneful Dittie, entituled Elizabeths Losse, together with A Welcome for King James [1603]; e. extracts from Willobie his Avisa; Or the true Picture of a Modest Maid, and of a Chast and constant wife,' 1594; f. extracts from Marston, Carew, &c. ; g. Gabriel Harvey's Third Letter, from his 'Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets, 1592; h. five sections,-Poetrie; Poets; Comparative Discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets; Painters; Musique;-from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia, 1598, &c. &c.; edited by C. Mansfield Ingleby, Esq., LL.D. Dr Ingleby presented to every Member of the Society who had paid his Subscription by Nov. 7, 1874, a copy of his Still Lion, an attempt to establish a Science of Criticism of Shakspere's Text. Mr Furnivall also presented to every Member a copy of his Introduction to Gervinus's Commentaries. The following Publications have been issued for 1875: Series II. Plays: 4. A revised Edition of the second, or 1599, Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, collated with the other Quartos and the Folios; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. 5. Henry V a. Facsimile Reprints of the Quarto and First Folio, edited by Brinsley Nicholson, M.D. Mr Halliwell has presented to every Member a copy of Mr A. H. Paget's “Shakespeare's Plays a Chapter of Stage History." The following Publications of the New Shakspere Society are in the Press : Series I. Transactions, 1874, Part II; 1875, Part I, Containing Papers by Messrs Hales, Fleay, Simpson, and Spedding, and Professors Ingram and Delius, with Reports of the Discussions on them. Series II. Plays: 6, 7. Henry V: b. Parallel-Texts of the Quarto and First Folio, arranged so as to show their differences; c. a revised edition of the Play; the whole edited by Brinsley Nicholson, M.D. 8, 9. The Two Noble Kinsmen, by Shakspere and Fletcher; a. A Reprint of the Quarto of 1636; b. a revised Edition, with Introduction, Notes, and Glossarial Index of all the words, distinguishing Shakspere's from Fletcher's, by Harold Littledale, Esq., Trinity College, Dublin. Series III. Originals and Analogues. Part I. a. The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Ar[thur] Br[ooke], 1562; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. b. The goodly hystory of the true and constant loue between Rhomeo and Julietta; from Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 1567; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq. Series VI. Shakspere's England. William Harrison's Description of England, 1577, 1587, edited from its two versions by Fredk. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. Series II. Cymbeline: a. A Reprint of the Folio of 1623; b. a revised Edition with Introduction and Notes, by W. J. Craig, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Dublin. |