The Plays of William Shakespeare and the “good quartos” tradition
The Love's Labor's Lost Play-Text
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Humphry sketch of the Chandos portrait
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The VERSE project will focus on the plays from the good quarto tradition. Below is a chronological list of Shakespeare’s plays considered to be the first “good” quartos because they are recognized as closest to authorial intention even though degraded by th...
Love’s Labor’s Lost is the first play text of the VERSE project. The inspiration for this fact is due to two essays (see Confer ) written by Homer Swander, founder of A Center for Theater, Education and Research (ACTER), the American Shakespeare Com...
During the editing process 5 different editions from the 16th to the 21st centuries of Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare are consulted.
Q = First quarto, 1598.
F = First folio, 1623.
BVar = Boswell-Malone variorum, 1821. Dig...
Late in the eighteenth-century Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone commissioned Ozias Humphry to draw a sketch of the Chandos Portrait, artist unknown. This version was reproduced in the Shakespeare rare print collection . Other versions of the Chandos...