{"product_id":"notes-and-emendations-to-the-text-of-shakespeares-plays-the-textual-controversy-9781108059459","title":"Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Payne Collier | Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Arm Hamilton | Thomas Duffus Hardy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe editor and forger John Payne Collier (1789-1883) claimed to have discovered a Second Folio of Shakespeare which had been 'corrected' in a mid-seventeenth-century hand. He published this catalogue of the emendations, including his commentary on them, in 1852. Collier then presented the so-called 'Perkins Folio' to the Duke of Devonshire, whose successor allowed it to be loaned in 1859 to the British Museum, where a thorough examination exposed it as a forgery. A storm of controversy followed and three of the key documents in the debate, all published in 1860, are also reissued here: 'An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere Folio, 1632' by Nicholas Hamilton (d.1915), assistant keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum; Collier's attempt to refute Hamilton's findings; and 'A Review of the Present State of the Shakespearian Controversy' by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-78).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47571596640407,"sku":"9781108059459","price":7643.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781108059459.webp?v=1774887660","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/notes-and-emendations-to-the-text-of-shakespeares-plays-the-textual-controversy-9781108059459","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}