: The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] by Shakespeare William Clark William George Editor Wright William Aldis Editor - English drama

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THE Preface. . . . vii

THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION, &c. . . . 343

Notes to The First Part of the Contention, &c. . . . 405

Notes to The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke. . . . 469

PREFACE

The play upon which the Second part of Henry the Sixth was founded was first printed in quarto , in 1594, with the following title:

as the reading of his copy of the first edition. If so, it must have been a different copy from that now in the Bodleian, from which the present text is reprinted, and another instance of the curious variations in different copies of the same editions, which were first discovered by Steevens , and recently applied to good use by Mr Collier.' Mr Halliwell has here inadvertently fallen into error. Malone's collation is made in a copy of the edition of 1600, in which the line stands thus:

At the foot of the page he wrote 'their king,' which is the reading of the edition of 1594 for the two last words, but which Mr Halliwell misread 'thinking' and regarded as a various reading for 'Honouring.' It is still possible, therefore, that Malone's copy and that at present in the Bodleian may be identical.

The second edition of the First Part of the Contention appeared in quarto in 1600, with the following title:

In 1619, a third edition without date, printed by Isaac Jaggard, and including also 'The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York,' appeared with the following title:

'The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York,' which formed the ground-work of The Third part of King Henry the Sixth, was first printed in small 8vo. in 1595, with the following title:

A unique copy of this edition is in the Bodleian Library . Although printed in 8vo. we have quoted it as Q1, in order to avoid introducing a new notation.

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