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Expand 4 - General literary history and criticism4 - General literary history and criticism
Expand 5 - Literary criticism of the separate plays and the poems, and certain groups of the Plays5 - Literary criticism of the separate plays and the poems, and certain groups of the Plays
Expand 6 - The stage and the production of Shakespeare’s Plays6 - The stage and the production of Shakespeare’s Plays
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Collapse 8 - Textual history: printing, editing and translation of the text8 - Textual history: printing, editing and translation of the text
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Expand 811 - Editing of Shakespeare - General works811 - Editing of Shakespeare - General works
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Expand 813 - Chronology and dating of the plays and the poems813 - Chronology and dating of the plays and the poems
Expand 814 - Censorship; expurgated editions814 - Censorship; expurgated editions
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Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 1, The authorship of "Two Gentlemen of Verona". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 1, The authorship of "Two Gentlemen of Verona". - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 2, The authorship of "Richard II". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 2, The authorship of "Richard II". - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 3, The authorship of "The Comedy of Errors". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 3, The authorship of "The Comedy of Errors". - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 4, The problem of "Measure for Measure". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 2, division 4, The problem of "Measure for Measure". - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 3, division 2, "All's Well that Ends Well". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 3, division 2, "All's Well that Ends Well". - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 4, division 1, The course of criticism. - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 4, division 1, The course of criticism. - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 4, division 2, The first part of "Henry VI" inductively considered. - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. Part 4, division 2, The first part of "Henry VI" inductively considered. - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. [Part 1], division 2, The origination of "Julius Caesar". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. [Part 1], division 2, The origination of "Julius Caesar". - 1922-1932
Expand 819 - The Shakespeare canon. [Part 1], division 3, The authorship of "Richard III". - 1922-1932819 - The Shakespeare canon. [Part 1], division 3, The authorship of "Richard III". - 1922-1932
Expand 820 - Printing. Publishing and Editing of the Text in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - General works820 - Printing. Publishing and Editing of the Text in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - General works
Expand 821 - Censorship and regulation of printing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries821 - Censorship and regulation of printing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Expand 822 - Manuscripts Shorthand in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries822 - Manuscripts Shorthand in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Expand 823 - The Quartos823 - The Quartos
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3 55967 - A conference of pleasure / composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 by Francis Bacon. Ed., from a manuscript belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, by James Spedding. - 1870
4 368651 - Of reading books / four essays by John Livingston Lowes. - 1930
5 Q 503438 - The critical works of John Dennis / edited by Edward Niles Hooker. - 1939-43
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39 458019 - The school of night; a study in the literary relationships of Sir Walter Raleigh / by M.C. Bradbrook. - 1936
53 487143 - The guardian. Vol. 1. - 1714
53 536048 - The guardian [1713]. Vol. 1. - 1756
69 45033 - The Enquirer. - 1823
75 11349 - Essays of Elia [containing references to Shakespeare]. - 1879
75 49494 - The life, letters, and writings of Charles Lamb / edited with notes and illustrations by Percy Fitzgerald. - 1876
75 156351 - The life and works of Charles Lamb / [with introduction and notes by Alfred Aigner]. - 1899-1900
75 164998 - Essays of Elia [containing references to Shakespeare]. - 1867
75 176640 - The works of Charles and Mary Lamb / ed. by E. V. Lucas ... - 1903-05
75 178225 - The works of Charles Lamb. - 1903
75 289887 - The essays of Elia / with an introduction by Augustine Birrell and illustrations by Charles E. Brock. - 1900
75 289887 - The essays of Elia, and The last essays of Elia / by Charles Lamb. - c1901
75 354887 - Poems, plays and miscellaneous essays / with introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger. - 1888
75 362211 - Essays of Elia : [containing references to Shakespeare]. - 1845
75 362211 - Essays of Elia [containing references to Shakespeare]. - 1845
75 364507 - Essays of Elia : [with references to Shakespeare] / edited with introdctions and notes by N.L. Hallward and S.C. Hill. - 1923-1927
75 386281 - The best of lamb : [including the story of King Lear] / compiled [with a preface] by E.V. Lucas. - 1923
75 545670 - Selections from Lamb and Hazlitt / edited [with an introduction, notes and glossary] by R.W. Jepson. - 1940
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76 164678 - A view of the English stage, or, A series of dramatic criticisms. - 1818
76 164679 - Lectures on the literature of the Age of Elizabeth. - 1821
76 172419 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth : and Characters of Shakespeare's plays / by William Hazlitt. - 1901
76 320124 - New writings / collected by P.P. Howe, [with preface and notes, including Shakespearian references]. - 1925-1927
77 485876 - Leigh Hunt as poet and essayist : being the choicest passages from his works selected and ed. / with a biographical introduction by Charles Kent. - 1889
79 - Essays and marginalia / edited by his brother. Vol. II. - 1851
79 150692 - Essays and marginalia / edited by his brother. Vol. I. - 1851
81 51767 - Vicinity of Leamington : a guide to Warwick, Coventry, Stratford, etc. - 1840
82 10793 - The hero as poet. - 1856
82 425210 - Carlyle and German thought: 1819-1834 / by Charles Frederick Harrold. - 1934
82 495621 - The hero as poet : Dante, Shakspeare. - 1897
82 544797 - The hero as poet : Dante, Shakspeare / with biographical introduction by H. Bennett. - 1923
82 552994 - The hero as poet : Dante, Shakspeare / [edited] with a critical introduction [by G.T. Bettany]. - 1891
82 574040 - The hero as poet : Dante, Shakspeare. - 1907
85 512587 - Essays in criticism / with an introduction by C.A. Miles ; and notes by L. Smith ; [with references to Shakespeare]. - 1918
89 55626 - Plays and Puritans : and other historical essays / by Charles Kingsley. - 1873
89 154700 - Collected essays. Vol. 1 : [including an essay on actors, with references to Shakespeare, and an essay on Falstaff / by Sir G.H. Radford]. - 1899
89 196234 - Occasional papers : dramatic and historical / by H.B. Irving ... - 1907
89 196234 - Occasional papers, dramatic and historical, - 1906
89 273729 - Old saws and modern instances. - 1918
89 294811 - Pastiche and prejudice / by A.B. Walkley. - 1921
89 307480 - More prejudice / by A.B. Walkley. - 1923
89 385582 - Life and books / by F.F. Leighton. - 1899
89 422534 - Essays in brief for war-time / by W. Warde Fowler. - 1916
89 434205 - Fireside studies. By Henry Kingsley. - 1876
91 137077 - Obiter dicta. [1st series / including an essay on actors, with references to Shakespeare, and an essay on Falstaff, by Sir G.H. Radford]. - 1896
91 275312 - Books in general : [essays] / by Solomon Eagle, pseud. - 1918-1920
91 275312 - Books in general. [1st]-third series / by Solomon Eagle. - 1919-1921
91 324946 - Books and theatres / by Edward Gordon Craig. - 1925
91 334016 - Masques and phases / by Ivor Brown; with an introduction by James Agate. - 1926
91 388786 - The aftermath, or, Gleanings from a busy life : called upon the outer cover for purposes of sale, Caliban's guide to letters : Lambkin's remains / by H. Belloc. - 1920
91 412074 - Punch and Judy, & other essays. - 1927
91 416072 - Fantasies and impromptus / by James Agate. - 1923
91 425127 - Selected essays / [by] Oscar W. Firkins. - c1933
91 480329 - Storm and peace / [by] John Beresford. - 1936
91 532557 - Preludes & studies / by Alan Dent. With a prefatory letter from Sir Max Beerbohm. - 1942
91 557060 - Friday mornings, 1941-1944 : [articles contributed to The spectator : including an article : Shakespeare's flowers]. - 1944
91 580370 - Agate's folly;. - 1925
91 580620 - Seeing things. - 1946
91 581035 - Memories of enjoyment / by Stephen Gwynn. - 1946
91 770436 - Tokyo essays. - 1967
91 770436 - Tokyo essays. - 1967
96 443801 - Dramatic essays / William Hazlitt ; selected and edited with notes and an introduction, by William Archer and Robert W. Lowe. - 1895
96 462490 - Essays and characters [including essays on the characters of Shakspear's plays] / edited by S.[T.] Williams. - 1937
96 483486 - Essays / selected and edited [with introduction and notes] by F. Carr. - c 1896
631 2255 - Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth with remarks on Sir T. Hanmer's edition of Shakespeare. - 1825
631 251549 - Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces. Vol. 2, [Pp. 87-94 proposals for printing the dramatic works of Shakespeare : pp. 95-150 preface to Shakespeare, 1765 : pp. 343-347 Shakespeare to Garrick]. - 1774
631 774976 - Johnson on Shakespeare / edited by Arthur Sherbo ; with an introduction by Bertrand H. Bronson. - 1968
632 327829 - The critical opinions of Samuel Johnson / arr. and compiled with an introd. by Joseph Epes Brown. - 1926
635 258539 - A bibliography of Samuel Johnson / by William Prideaux Courtney ; revised and seen through the press by David Nichol Smith. - 1915
635 359827 - [Cuttings from booksellers' catalogues relating to Shakespearian works]. - 1928-1944
636 60179 - John and Garrick. - 1816
636 241365 - Dr. Johnson and his circle / by John Bailey. - 1913
636 553868 - Dr. Johnson and his circle / [by] John Bailey. - 1945
637 372818 - The conversations of Dr. Johnson : [with references to Shakespeare] : extracted from the life / by James Boswell ; and edited with an introduction by R. W. Postgate ; with ten drawings by T. [L.] Poulton. - 1930
637 412814 - The great cham (Dr. Johnson) : an abridgement, partly rearranged, of James Boswell's 'Life of Samuel Johnson' and 'The tour of the Hebrides' / edited [with a preface] by J. Graves ; with illustrations by E.H. Shepard [and references to Shakespeare]. - 1933
637 474421 - Johnsoniana : Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson / by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy and others, together with the Diary of Dr. Campbell and extracts from that of Madame d'Arblay ; newly collected and edited by Robina Napier. - 1892
637 573723 - A history of late nineteenth century drama, 1850-1900 / by Allardyce Nicoll ... - 1946
914 582643 - Dr. Campbell's diary of a visit to England in 1775 / newly ed. from the ms. by James L. Clifford, with an introd. by S. C. Roberts. - 1947
6331 473950 - Samuel Johnson's Prologue spoken at the opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane in 1747 with Garrick's Epilogue : a facsimile of the hitherto undiscovered first edition / with preface by Austin Dobson and introduction and notes by A.S.W. Rosenbach. - 1902
6331 Q 318787 - The Drury-Lane prologue / by Samuel Johnson, and the epilogue, by David Garrick 1747 ; reproduced in type-facsimile from the edition printed by W. Webb. - 1924
6341 472421 - Samuel Johnson's prefaces & dedications / by Allen T. Hazen. - 1937
6349 323176 - Prologue written by Samuel Johnson and spoken by David Garrick at a benefit-performance of Comus, April 1750. / Reproduced in type-facsimile. - 1925
6361 356286 - The literary career of James Boswell, esq.; being the bibliographical materials for a life of Boswell. - 1929
6392 376481 - Literary criticism in the age of Johnson / by A. Bosker. - 1930
22108 - Annotations illustrative of the plays of Shakespeare / by Johnson, Steevens, Malone, etc. - 1819
63608 94454 - Essay on tragedy, with a critical examen of Mahommet and Irene. - 1749
63608 536405 - Eighteenth century books : [including Shakespeare items]. - 1942
63608 536405 - Eighteenth century books. [Sale] catalogue, no. 6. - 1942
113480 - Shakespeare's plays, in folio.
360084 - The Shakespeare folios and the forgeries of Shakespeare's handwriting in the Lucy Packer Linderman memorial library of Lehigh university, with a list of original folios in American libraries, by Robert Metcalf Smith ... with the assistance of Howard Seavoy Leach ... - 1927
425726 - Philip Chetwind and the Allott copyrights : [with a section "The Shakespeare folios"]. - 1934
559567 - A description of the four folios of Shakespeare, 1623,1632, 1663-4, 1685 in the original bindings, the gift of Mr. P. A. B. Widener and Mrs. Josephine Widener Wichfeld to the Free library of Philadelphia... By A. S. W. Rosenbach, president of the Shakespeare association of America. - 1945
665067 - The Shakespeare folios in the Cornell University Library given by William G. Mennen, '08. - 1954
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Expand 827 - The Third Folio, 1663, 1664827 - The Third Folio, 1663, 1664
Expand 828 - The Fourth Folio, 1685828 - The Fourth Folio, 1685
Expand 829 - Biographies of editors, printers and publishers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries829 - Biographies of editors, printers and publishers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Expand 830 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text in the Eighteenth-century. - General Histories830 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text in the Eighteenth-century. - General Histories
Expand 831 - Reviews, comments and criticisms of a particular edition in the Eighteenth-century831 - Reviews, comments and criticisms of a particular edition in the Eighteenth-century
Expand 832 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period 1709 -1739832 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period 1709 -1739
Expand 833 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period 1740 - 1760833 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period 1740 - 1760
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842 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period before 1863
842 2877 - Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of ancient manners: with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakspeare: - 1807
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Expand 851 - Reviews, comments and criticisms of a particular edition of the Text in the Twentieth-century851 - Reviews, comments and criticisms of a particular edition of the Text in the Twentieth-century
Expand 852 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period 1900 - 1918852 - Printing, Publishing and Editing of the Text Period 1900 - 1918
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Expand 870 - The Translation and Translators of Shakespeare (General)870 - The Translation and Translators of Shakespeare (General)
Expand 871 - German translation and translators of Shakespeare871 - German translation and translators of Shakespeare
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875 - Italian translation and translators of Shakespeare
876 - Spanish, Portugese and Romanian translation and translators of Shakespeare
877 - Czech, Slovak and Bulgarian translation and translators of Shakespeare
Expand 878 - Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian and Slovenian translation and translators of Shakespeare878 - Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian and Slovenian translation and translators of Shakespeare
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881 - Latin, Greek, Albanian, Celtic, Welsh, Irish translation and translators of Shakespeare
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885 - Languages of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Persian, Sri Lanka translation and translators of Shakespeare
886 - Japanese translation and translators of Shakespeare
887 - Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese translation and translators of Shakespeare
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