Dr. Chris Laoutaris is a Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute in Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon. Before that he was a long-standing Lecturer and Renaissance Literature Course Convenor at University College London, where he also completed his PhD. His most recent publication, Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize and was listed as one of the Telegraph’s 'Best Books of 2014.' His recent media appearances and special events include BBC Radio London, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National, and Newstalk Radio Dublin, and lectures for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse, in association with the National Gallery of Scotland. As well as being recently commissioned as a contributor to Cambridge University’s Cambridge Guide to Shakespeare’s First Folio, Laoutaris has written for the Financial Times and Sunday Express. He is currently working on a project for the Shakespeare Institute called "Team Shakespeare: The Men who Created the Shakespeare Legacy." This so-called “False Folio” is the focus of the excerpt below, which comes from Chapter 3, “The ‘Pavier-Jaggard Quartos’: A Shakespearean Printing Mystery.” Philip Henslowe's diary records a performance of a Henry VI on 3 March 1592, by the Lord Strange's Men. Thomas Nashe refers in 1592 to a popular play about Lord Talbot, seen by "ten thousand spectators at least" at separate times. [38] [note 5]

The dates of the play's earliest performances are uncertain due to contradictions in the editions published in 1609. The Yale Shakespeare edition suggests this was a collaborative work; some scenes (Act III scene 7 and Act V scene 2) may seem less characteristic of Shakespeare than the rest of the play.

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Only one early performance is recorded with certainty, [note 3] which occurred on Wednesday night of 1 Jan 1634, at Court. First published in quarto in 1594; the second quarto was published in 1600, the third in 1611. [20] Limited, numbered edition of Hamlet, in German, published in 1928 by Weimar Cranach Press. Illustrated with 74 wood engravings by Edward Gordon Craig. McDonald, Russ (2000). A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare). Penguin Books. p. l. ISBN 0-14-071455-3. But if this was the case, then why and how did William and Isaac Jaggard become two of the primary syndicate members of the First Folio shortly after the printing of the ‘Pavier-Jaggard Quartos’? Were the plays issued collaboratively by Pavier and the Jaggards really illegal in the first place and was Pavier the mastermind behind the ‘False Folio’ and the unscrupulous, piratical publisher that early bibliographers and historians of the First Folio made him out to be?

The number and range of submitted titles was astonishing this year. It was definitely a bumper crop, in quantity and quality. I want to thank all the authors whose publishers submitted their books for providing such a rich and illuminating reading experience.’ In a kind of homage to Woolf, Greer starts with a woman about whom almost nothing is known, married to a great poet, and reimagines the story of the Hathaway-Shakespeare marriage in its context, treating Anne (or Agnes) with the greatest sympathy. Greer rescues her life story from oblivion with wit and scholarship. It’s a good companion to Hamnet, below. DelVecchio, Dorothy and Anthony Hammond, editors. Pericles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 9 Schoenbaum, Samuel (1975). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford University Press. pp.24–26, 296. ISBN 0-19-505161-0. Richard Edes's Latin play Caesar Interfectus (1582?) would not qualify. The Admiral's Men had an anonymous Caesar and Pompey in their repertory in 1594–95, and another play, Caesar's Fall, or the Two Shapes, written by Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, Thomas Middleton, Anthony Munday, and John Webster, in 1601–02, too late for Platter's reference. Neither play has survived. The anonymous Caesar's Revenge dates to 1606, while George Chapman's Caesar and Pompey dates from c. 1613. E. K. Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 2, p. 179; Vol. 3, pp. 259, 309; Vol. 4, p. 4.Limited, numbered edition of Hamlet, published in English in 1930 by Weimar Cranach Press. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig. This is the English version of the book that appears as number 2 in this list.