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The dramatic works of Shakspeare : in six volumes : with notes

William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann, Daniel Prince (Bookseller), Joshua Cooke (Bookseller), Oxford University Press (Printer)
Print Book, English, MDCCLXXXVI-[1794?] [1786-1794?]
At the Clarendon Press ... to be had of Mess. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; Mess. Prince and Cooke, and C. Selwin Rann, Oxford; and of Mess. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham, Oxford, MDCCLXXXVI-[1794?] [1786-1794?]
6 v. ; 23 cm (8vo)
3050506
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost
v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale
v. 3. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV
v. 4. King Henry V ; King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 5. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Romeo and Juliet
v. 6. King Lear ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; Othello
Contains the plays only
Dates follow "Clarendon Press" on volume title page imprints of volumes 1-4. Volumes 4-6 imprints lacking names of Mess. Prince, and C. Selwin Rann. Volumes 5-6 imprints begin "Oxford: sold by J. Cooke."
Vol. 1-4 are dated, respectively, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1791; while v. 5 and 6 are undated. Jaggard suggests a terminal date of 1794
All volumes with volume title pages and half-titles; all plays with divisional titles
Errata in v. 1