Released posthumously: Henry V, The Merchant of Venice Released 1941: Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Richard The Second, and Twelfth Night.Īlso released between 19: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing Released 1940: Henry IV, part 1, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet Released 1939: As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Tempest. The original series included the following volumes: The original series included an introduction to each play, text of the play, copious literary notes following the text, textual notes, and a glossary. Kittredge, who had taught Harvard undergraduates an introductory course on Shakespeare called English 2, had written very little on the subject, other than an address in 1916 at the Sanders Theater, before publishing his Complete Works in 1936 (see below) and the individual play series, starting in 1939. The original series included text and analysis of sixteen of Shakespeare's Plays. George Kittredge born in 1860, was nearly 80 years old when the first volumes of Kittredge Shakespeare were published in 1939. The first page in a 1946 edition of Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare Original series
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