| Rowe’s edition was followed by an opulent 1725 edition, corrected by Alexander Pope, in six volumes which is in the Charlecote library. It would cost you about £9000 to buy a set today. Pope corrected what he declared as faults he found in Rowe’s edition. He eliminated passages he felt could not have been written by Shakespeare that had been included both in the Rowe edition and in the fourth folio edited by Heminge and Condell, which he regarded with deep suspicion.. He felt many of the passages had been written by actors so he sought a number of quartos which had preceded the folio and found major differences in the texts. But more than that, he discovered many beautiful passages in the quartos that had been eliminated in the production of the folios. These were incorporated and Pope went on to tidy up many lines to make them scan better. This was published by Tonson the younger and his son. They went on to publish another edition for Lewis Theobald and the son went on to publish two further editions. |
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