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- Title
THE FIRST FOLIO AND NICHOLAS ROWE'S 1714 KING JOHN.
- Authors
Candido, Joseph
- Abstract
This article reports that author Nicholas Rowe used the Fourth Folio as copy text for his three separate editions of dramatist William Shakespeare is a matter now well beyond scholarly dispute. No one seriously challenges the point, although author R.B. McKerrow some years ago noted that while the editions of 1709 are little more than a revision of F4, Rowe's 1714 edition, although clearly based on F4, is possibly indebted in places to one of the earlier folios. The text of the book "King John," through the four Shakespearian folios and the three Rowe texts, although admittedly fragmentary evidence on which to base an assessment of Rowe's complete 1714 edition, none the less give some indication of the correctness of McKerrow's assumption.
- Subjects
ROWE, Nicholas, 1674-1718; DRAMATISTS; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; KING John (Play : Shakespeare); AUTHORS; LITERATURE
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1991, Vol 38, Issue 4, p506
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article