Notes

[Footnote 1:  Alfred Jackson, “Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare,” Library X (1930), 455-473; Allardyce Nicoll, “The editors of Shakespeare from first folio to Malone,” Studies in the first Folio, London (1924), pp. 158-161; Ronald B. McKerrow, “The treatment of Shakespeare’s text by his earlier editors, 1709-1768,” Proceedings of the British Academy, XIX (1933), 89-122; Augustus Ralli, A history of Shakespearian criticism, London, 1932; Herbert S. Robinson, English Shakespearian criticism in the eighteenth century, New York, 1932.]

[Footnote 2:  Nicoll, op. cit., pp. 158-161; McKerrow, op. cit., p. 93.]

[Footnote 3:  London Gazette, From Monday March 14 to Thursday March 17, 1708, and From Monday May 30 to Thursday June 2, 1709.  For descriptions and collations of this edition, see A. Jackson, op. cit.; H.L.  Ford, Shakespeare 1700-1740, Oxford (1935), pp. 9, 10; TLS 16 May, 1929, p. 408; Edward Wagenknecht, “The first editor of Shakespeare,” Colophon VIII, 1931.  According to a writer in The Gentleman’s Magazine (LVII, 1787, p. 76), Rowe was paid thirty-six pounds, ten shillings by Tonson.]

[Footnote 4:  Identified and described by McKerrow, TLS 8 March, 1934, p. 168.  See also Ford, op. cit., pp. 11, 12.]

[Footnote 5:  The best discussion of the Curll and Lintot Poems is that of Hyder Rollins in A new variorum edition of Shakespeare:  the poems, Philadelphia and London (1938) pp. 380-382, to which I am obviously indebted.  See also Raymond M. Alden, “The 1710 and 1714 texts of Shakespeare’s poems,” MLN XXXI (1916), 268-274; and Ford, op. cit., pp. 37-40.]

[Footnote 6:  For example, he dropped out Rowe’s opinion that Shakespeare had little learning; the reference to Dryden’s view as to the date of Pericles; the statement that Venus and Adonis is the only work that Shakespeare himself published; the identification of Spenser’s “pleasant Willy” with Shakespeare; the account of Jonson’s grudging attitude toward Shakespeare; the attack on Rymer and the defence of Othello; and the discussion of the Davenant-Dryden Tempest, together with the quotation from Dryden’s prologue to that play.]

[Footnote 7:  Edmond Malone, The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, London (1790), I, 154.  Difficult as it is to believe that so careful a scholar as Malone could have made this error, it is none the less true that he observed the omission of the passage on “pleasant Willy” and stated that Rowe had obviously altered his opinion by 1714.]

[Footnote 8:  Beverley Warner, Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays, New York (1906), p. 6.]

[Footnote 9:  Gerald E. Bentley, Shakespeare and Jonson, Chicago (1945).  Vol.  I.]

[Footnote 10:  D. Nichol Smith, Eighteenth century essays on Shakespeare, Glasgow (1903), pp. xiv-xv.]