Administrative history

Abstract:

Printed in 1623 by William Jaggard, who decided to print 750 copies to help defray costs. The volume's two editors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, were not perfect. They missed the jointly-written, "Pericles," "Two noble kinsmen" and "Cardenio" along with several other plays in which Shakespeare may have had a hand. But if not for their editorial labors, the world might never have known such masterpieces as "Julius Caesar," Twelfth night," "Macbeth," "Antony and Cleopatra," "The Winter's tale" and "The Tempest." Printing house practice in Jaggard's time -- a kind of rolling proofreading and corrections process -- meant that each of the 750 copies printed is in small but significant ways unique.

Languages Used

• Language: English. Script: Latin

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