posted on 2006-04-26, 13:31authored byGabriel Egan
The third edition (F3) of the collected plays of Shakespeare appeared in
1663, and to its second issue the following year was added a particularly
disreputable group of plays comprised Pericles, The London Prodigal, Sir John
Oldcastle, A Yorkshire Tragedy, Thomas Lord Cromwell, The Puritan, and Locrine.
Of these, only Pericles remains in the accepted Shakespeare canon, the edges of
which are imprecisely defined. (At the moment it is unclear whether Edward 3 is
in or out.) The landmark event for defining the Shakespeare canon was the
publication of the 1623 First Folio (F1), with which, as Stanley Wells and Gary
Taylor put it, "the substantive history of Shakespeare's dramatic texts
virtually comes to an end" (Wells et al. 1987, 52)...
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EGAN, G., 2004. Editorial treatment of the Shakespeare Apocrypha, 1664-1737. Paper Delivered at the Conference 'Leviathan to Licensing Act (The Long Restoration, 1650-1737): Theatre, Print and Their Contexts' at Loughborough University, 15-16 September