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Order Nr. 55586 FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE, A TRANSCRIPT OF CONTEMPORARY MARGINALIA IN A COPY OF...
(Shakespeare, William).

FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE, A TRANSCRIPT OF CONTEMPORARY MARGINALIA IN A COPY OF THE KODAMA MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF MEISEI UNIVERSITY.

Tokyo: Yushodo Press Co., Ltd., 1998. large 8vo. cloth. 357 pages. First edition. This book presents a faithful transcription of marginal annotations by an early seventeenth-century Scottish reader of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), which is now in possession of the Meisei University Library. As primary source material for research, this "diplomatic" transcription, accompanied by more than 40 photographic reproductions of the Folio pages, offers the most reliable information as well as the most definite proof..... READ MORE

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                           CONTENTS

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PREFACE.................................................. vii
ILLUSTRATIONS........................................... xiii
INTRODUCTION.............................................. xv

A TRANSCRIPT............................................... 1
     The Tempest........................................... 5
     The Two Gentlemen of Verona.......................... 10
     The Meny Wives of Windsor............................ 15
     Measure for Measure.................................. 20
     The Comedy of Errors................................. 27
     Much Ado about Nothing............................... 33
     Love's Labour's Lost................................. 39
     A Midsummer Night's Dream............................ 45
     The Merchant of Venice............................... 50
     As You Like It....................................... 57
     The Taming of the Shrew.............................. 67
     All's Well That Ends Well............................ 72
     Twelfth Night........................................ 80
     The Winter's Tale.................................... 86
     King John............................................ 94
     King Richard the Second............................. 105
     The First Part of King Henry the Fourth............. 112
     The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth............ 118
     King Henry the Fifth................................ 125
     The First Part of King Henry the Sixth.............. 135
     The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth............. 141
     The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth.............. 147
     King Richard the Third.............................. 153
     King Henry the Eighth............................... 161
     Troilus and Cressida................................ 174
     Coriolanus.......................................... 182
     Titus Andronicus.................................... 194
     Romeo and Juliet.................................... 201
     Timon of Athens..................................... 207
     Julius Caesar....................................... 219
     Macbeth............................................. 227
     Hamlet.............................................. 233
     King Lear........................................... 247
     Othello............................................. 262
     Antony and Cleopatra................................ 275
     Cymbeline........................................... 284

INDEX OF WORDS USED IN THE MARGINALIA.................... 295