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Order Nr. 61956 JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS. Marvin Spevack

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, 624 pages. illustrated. This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, the eminent Shakespearean scholar. Halliwell was a man of prodigious energy and wide interests. His six hundred or so publications deal, not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also cover mathematics, lexicography, the history of science, archaeology, and many other important subjects of his day. This..... READ MORE

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Preface ix

Part One: 1820-1846
1. Beginnings: 1820-1840 3
2. The Young Professional: 1840-1845 44
3. Persons and Policies, Professional and Private: 1840-1845 72
4. The British Museum Affair: 1845-1846 124

Part Two: 1846-1853
5. Controversies 147
6. Family Relations: 1846-1847 164
7. Labors in the Vineyard: Literary Archaeology and Lexicography 170
8. Shakespeare: Fact and Fiction 197
    •A Life of William Shakespeare 197 
    •The Tallis Edition 204
    •The Collier Controversy 208
    •The Folio Edition of Shakespeare 215
9. Family and Career: 1848-1853 229

Part Three: 1854-1865
10. Literary Archaeology, Professional and Personal 243
11. The Bookman 272
12. The Folio Edition and the Shilling Shakespeare 288
13. Stratford-up on-Avon: Publications, Institutions, Celebrations 297
14. Family, Feud, and Friends 326

Part Four: 1866-1878
15. Shakespeare and Satellites 353
16. Stratford-upon-Avon: Works, Work, and Worries 378
17. Buying, Selling, Collecting 393
18. Middle Hill: After Thomas Phillipps 413
19. Three Weddings and Many Funerals 430

Part Five: 1878-1889
20. The Retired Old Lunatic 471
21. My Nearest and Dearest Enemy 492
22. Stratford-upon-Avon: Not in Single Spies 522
23. The Library and Museum in the Rustic Wigwam 542
24. Last Works: Outlines and Outlook 556
25. Death and Afterlife 583

Index 593