THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE

IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMEŠ:

WITH

THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

VARIOUS COMMENTATORS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

NOTE S,

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

REVISED AND AUGMENTED

BY ISAAC REED,

WITH A GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ ΗΝ, ΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΜΟΝ ΑΠΟΒΡΕΧΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΝΟΥΝ.

Vet. Auct. apud. Suidam.

Time, which is continually washing away the dissoluble Fabricks of other

Poets, passes without Injury by the Adamant of SHAKSPEARE.

Dr. Johnson's Preface.

MULTA DIES, VARIUSQUE LABOR MUTABILIS VI

RETULIT IN MELIUS, MULTOS ALTERNA REVISENS

LUSIT, ET IN SOLIDO RURSUS FORTUNA LOCAVIT.

Virgil.

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VOL. I.

ADVERTISEMENT by Mr. Reed

Advertisement by Mr. Steevens

Preface to Mr. Richardfon's Propofals, &c.

Proposals by William Richardfon

Supplement to Propofals

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Entries of Shakspeare's Plays on the Stationers'

Books

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Lift of ancient Editions of Shakspeare's

Plays

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Lift of modern Editions

Lift of ancient Editions of Shakspeare's

Poems

Lift of modern ditto

Lift of altered Plays from Shakspeare

Lift of detached Pieces of Criticifm on Shak-

fpeare, his Editors, &c.

Commendatory Verses on Shakspeare

Malone's Attempt to ascertain the Order of

Shakspeare's Plays

Malone's Effay on Ford's Pamphlet, &c.

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Steevens's Remarks on it

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Malone's hiftorical Account of the English

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