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Venus and Adonis, fifth edition

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: Venus and Adonis
Date: Imprinted at London : [By P. Short] for William Leake, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound, 1599
Repository: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, USA
Call number and opening: 59000, title page, sig. A2r-A2v
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William Shakespeare
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Venus and Adonis
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Imprinted at London : [By P. Short] for William Leake, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound, 1599
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Title: Venus and Adonis
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William Shakespeare
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Venus and Adonis
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: Venus and Adonis
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William Shakespeare
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Venus and Adonis
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Imprinted at London : [By P. Short] for William Leake, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound, 1599
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Manuscript book of Latin epigrams, including one on Shakespeare

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Creator: Thomas Porter
Date: ca. 1614
Repository: Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, UK
Call number and opening: MS 436, cent i. 57;  dedication page, and pages 2 & 13

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ca. 1614
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Creator: Thomas Porter
Date: ca. 1614
Repository: Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, UK
Call number and opening: MS 436, cent i. 57;  dedication page, and pages 2 & 13

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Will Shakespeare, pleasing Poet.                                                                   
Your muse has so many charms; as many as the hares on Athos.
Your measures [come] from a rich vein of genius

Semi-diplomatic transcription

Gul: Shakespeare. Pöetam lepidum.

​Quot lepŏres in Atho tot habet tua Musa lepôres
Ingenii vena diuite metra tua

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Thomas Porter
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ca. 1614
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MS 436, cent i. 57, pg. 13
TAGS: Contemporary accounts and critical responses to poetry, Manuscript, Manuscript mention of Shakespeare in his lifetime, 1610s, Holkham Hall

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Sir Walter Cope, letter to Viscount Cranborne [Robert Cecil], describing Love's Labor's Lost being selected to be played before Queen Anne

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Title: Sir Walter Cope, letter to Viscount Cranborne [Robert Cecil]
Date: [1604]
Repository: Hatfield House, Hatfield, UK
Call number and opening: CP 189/95

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Sir I haue sent and bene all thys
morning huntyng for players, Iauglers
& such kinde of creaturs but fynde
them harde to fynde/ wherfore Leavinge
notes for them to seeke me/ burbage ys
come/ & sayes ther ys no neue playe
that the queene hath not seene/ but they
haue Revyved an olde one/ Cawled
Loves Labore Lost which for wytt & mirthe he
sayes will please her exceedingly And
Thys ys apointed to be played to Morowe
night at my Lord of Sowthamptons
vnless yow send a wrytt to Remove
the Corpus Cum Causa to yor howse
in Strande/ Burbage ys my
messenger Ready attendyng yor
pleasure

from yow library                                

yors most humbly
Walter Cope

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Sir Walter Cope
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Sir Walter Cope, letter to Viscount Cranborne [Robert Cecil]
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[1604]
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Sir Edward Hoby's Letter to Robert Cecil, including reference to Richard II

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Creator: Sir Edward Hoby
Title: Sir Edward Hoby to Sir Robert Cecil.
Date: December 7, 1595
Repository: Hatfield House, Hatfield, UK
Call number and opening: CP 36/60

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Sir, fnidinge [sic] that yow w'er not conuenientlie to be at London
to morrowe night I am bold to send to knowe whether Tews=
daie may be anie more in your grace to visit poore Channonrowe
where as late as yt shal please yow a gate for your supper shal=
be open: & King Richard present him self to your vewe Pardon
my boldnes that euer loue to be honored with your presence ne=
ther do I importune more, then your occasions may willingly assent
vnto. in the meane time, & euer restinge

At your Command
Edward Hoby

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Sir Edward Hobt to Sir Robert Cecil
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December 7, 1595
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"Bundle of miscellaneous compositions and verses" containing a copy of Toby Belch's song in Twelfth Night

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Date: ca. 1600
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Call number and opening: 44M69/M4/14, item 1
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Scipio Squire’s emendations to the first edition of Pericles

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been dieuers and sundry times acted by his maiesties seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare.
Date: Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
Repository: Elizbeth Club, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Call number and opening: Eliz 188, title page & sigs. E4r-v, F4v, I2v
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William Shakespeare
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The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter ...
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Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been dieuers and sundry times acted by his maiesties seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare.
Date: Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
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William Shakespeare
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The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter ...
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Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been dieuers and sundry times acted by his maiesties seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare.
Date: Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
Repository: Elizbeth Club, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Call number and opening: Eliz 188, title page & sigs. E4r-v, F4v, I2v
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William Shakespeare
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The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter ...
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Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been dieuers and sundry times acted by his maiesties seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare.
Date: Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
Repository: Elizbeth Club, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Call number and opening: Eliz 188, title page & sigs. E4r-v, F4v, I2v
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William Shakespeare
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The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter ...
Item Date
Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
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Elizabethan Club, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Eliz 188, sig. F4v
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been dieuers and sundry times acted by his maiesties seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare.
Date: Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
Repository: Elizbeth Club, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Call number and opening: Eliz 188, title page & sigs. E4r-v, F4v, I2v
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William Shakespeare
Item Title
The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter ...
Item Date
Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster Row, &c. 1609.
Repository
Elizabethan Club, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Eliz 188, sig. I2v
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Romeo and Juliet, fourth edition

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The most excellent and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath beene sundrie times publikely Acted, by the Kings Maiesties Seruants at the Globe. Newly Corrected, augmented, and amended.
Date: London : Printed for John Smethwicke, [1622?] 
Repository: The British Library, London, UK
Call number and opening: C.34.k.56, title page
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William Shakespeare
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The most excellent and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath beene sundrie times publikely Acted, by the Kings Maiesties Seruants at the Globe. Newly Corrected, augmented, and amended.
Item Date
London : Printed for John Smethwicke, [1622?]
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The British Library, London, UK
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C.34.k.56, title page
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Richard III, third edition

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The Tragedie of King Richard the third. Conteining his treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent Newphewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath bene lately Acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Newly augmented, by William Shakespeare.
Date: London : Printed by Thomas Creede, for Andrew Wise, 1602.
Repository: The British Library, London, UK
Call number and opening: C.34.k.48, title page
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William Shakespeare
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The Tragedie of King Richard the third. Conteining his treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent Newphewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death. [...]
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London : Printed by Thomas Creede, for Andrew Wise, 1602.
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The British Library, London, UK
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C.34.k.48, title page
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TAGS: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Plays in print, Print, British Library, 1600s, Shakespeare's name printed on the title page or dedicatory leaf of his work in his lifetime, Richard III

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King Lear, first edition

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: M. William Shak-speare: his True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam. As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S. Stephans night in Christmas Hollidayes. By his Maiesties seruants playing usually at the Gloabe on the Banckeside.
Date: London : Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, etc., 1608. 
Repository: The British Library, London, UK
Call number and opening: C.34.k.18, title page
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M. William Shakespeare: his True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam. As it was ...
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London : Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, etc., 1608.
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The British Library, London, UK
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C.34.k.18, title page
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Title: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
Date: London : Printed by I. R., for N[icholas] L[ing], 1605. 
Repository: The British Library, London, UK
Call number and opening: C.34.k.2, title page
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William Shakespeare
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The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
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London : Printed by I. R., for N[icholas] L[ing], 1605.
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The British Library, London, UK
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C.34.k.2, title page
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TAGS: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Plays in print, Print, British Library, 1600s, Hamlet, Shakespeare's name printed on the title page or dedicatory leaf of his work in his lifetime

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