The Third Folio 1663/1664
| Published in 1663 and then republished in 1664 with a
supplement of seven additional plays attributed to Shakespeare, the Third Folio
is regarded by scholars to have been rather carefully edited, but without
reference to the printer’s copy. Bibliographical evidence indicates that the
supplement was an afterthought, and of seven plays scholars accept only one, Pericles,
as belonging in the Shakespeare canon. This
is Pericles’s first and belated appearance in a folio collection,
although it was one of the ten plays that Thomas Pavier included in his
collection of 1619. |
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