![]() Rowe’s edition reprinted in 12mo (1714).The differences are slight, but some of them seem to be intentional. There is an engraved frontispiece for each play: the one for Macbeth is a view of the parade of apparitions in act 4, scene 1.Ī facsimile reprint (which I have not seen) was published in 1999, with an added introduction.Ī second printing of Rowe’s edition, possibly later than 1709 (though that is still the date which appears on the title-page) but earlier than 1714. Macbeth in the octavo edition printed for Jacob Tonson in 1709, copied from the fourth folio edition, but quite thoroughly ‘revis’d and corrected’ by Nicholas Rowe. The fourth and last folio edition (Wing S2915), copied from the third, with the number of lines per column increased (from 66 to 74). The third folio edition (Wing S2913), copied page for page and quire for quire from the second. The only reason for not ignoring it is that many of the guesses and mistakes made here were allowed by default to persist into subsequent editions. All in all, this edition is an unsatisfactory piece of work. There are also numerous errors: in two places a whole line has been dropped. There are a few attempted corrections, but it cannot be supposed that they have any authority. The second folio edition (STC 22274), copied page for page from the first. The same is true for the next three editions.) Macbeth is part 3, pp. 131–51. (That is, it consists of gatherings of three sheets folded together. The first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays (STC 22273) – formatwise a folio in sixes. ![]() The text of Macbeth as it appears in successive editions of Shakespeare’s collected works. Editions of Macbeth Editions of Shakespeare’s plays
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