Shakespeare Weekend!

The next illustrated collection of Shakespeare from our holdings is the second edition of The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Ten Volumes published by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736). Pope’s second edition was published in eight volumes in 1728, followed by supplementary ninth and tenth volumes. Sewell is only credited within the tenth volume. 

Volume One includes a preface by Pope followed by Nicholas Rowe’s biographical essay Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear and a poem in memory of Shakespeare by English dramatist Ben Jonson (1572-1637). Plays contained within volume one include The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Measure for Measure. 

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications in order to help determine authorial text and regularize Shakespearean metre. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century. Pope also took liberties in removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some such lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes. At the time, his editorial hand was met with some criticism and dismissal but historically it may be seen as one of the first scholarly approaches to Shakespeare.  

Pope followed in Rowe’s footsteps including scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings preceding each play. Volume One’s engravings are attributed to French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) and Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758). Dedicated readers of Shakespeare Weekend may notice some of the engravings’ extreme similarities to François Boitard’s work from Rowe’s volumes, particularly in the frontispiece interpretation of Shakespeare's Stratford monument.

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Ten interesting British novels

1. Alice���s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's tale by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as a prime example of the literary nonsense genre.

2. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens:  Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress, Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker.

3. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens:  Dombey and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter’s love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death.

4. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift: Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book was an immediate success. 

5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

6.  David Copperfield by Charles Dickens:  Now a grown man, David Copperfield tells the story of his youth. As a young boy, he lives happily with his mother and his nurse, Peggotty. His father died before he was born. During David’s early childhood, his mother marries the violent Mr. Murdstone, who brings his strict sister, Miss Murdstone, into the house. The Murdstones treat David cruelly, and David bites Mr. Murdstone’s hand during one beating. The Murdstones send David away to school.

7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling:  Mr. Dursley, a well-off Englishman, notices strange happenings on his way to work one day. That night, Albus Dumbledore, the head of a wizardry academy called Hogwarts, meets Professor McGonagall, who also teaches at Hogwarts, and a giant named Hagrid outside the Dursley home. Dumbledore tells McGonagall that someone named Voldemort has killed a Mr. and Mrs. Potter and tried unsuccessfully to kill their baby son, Harry. Dumbledore leaves Harry with an explanatory note in a basket in front of the Dursley home.

8. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets by J.K Rowling:  The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families.

9. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:  A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.

10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare:  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words.

Updated Book List: March

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Lewis The Reason for God by Timothy Keller The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson The only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Trial by Francis Kafka Necromancer by William Gibson The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Stranger by Albert Camus Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Animal Farm by George Orwell Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Watchman by Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys Never Let Me Down by Kazuo Ishiguro Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope Book of Night Women by Marion James 11/22/63 by Stephen King Who Asked You? 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Envelope for Letter to George A. Katzenberger from Greenville to Chicago: 1893

Sent to Katzenberger at 95 & 97 Clark St. Room 48, Chicago, Ill

What follows is a biography of G.A. Katzenberger as recorded in History of Darke County Ohio from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by Frazer E. Wilson:

For the high rank of her bench and bar Ohio has ever been distinguished, and it is gratifying to note that in no section of the commonwealth has the standard been lowered at any epoch in its history. To the subject of this review we may re- fer with propriety and satisfaction as being one of the able and representative members of the legal profession in Darke county, and that he is a native son of this county lends some- what to the significance of the prestige which he has here at- tained.

George A. Katzenberger was born in Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, on December 11, 1867, and is the only son of Charles L. and Elizabeth (Ashman) Katzenberger. The mother, who was a daughter of the pioneer, Peter Ashman, departed this life in 1868, being followed a few years later by her only daughter, Mary. The subject’s early life was spent in Green- ville, where he was reared under the direction of Mrs. Rosina Rehfuss. His elementary education was received in the public schoools of Greenville, completing the preparatory high school course in May, 1884. He then pursued a course of study in Nelson’s Business College, at Cincinnati, upon the completion of which he accepted a position as head bookkeeper for the banking firm of Gilmore & Company, of Cincinnati. From July, 1885, to January 1, 1886, Mr. Katzenberger was the busi- ness manager for the firm, owing to the absence abroad of the principal partner, Virgil Gilmore. The continued illness of Mr. Gilmore made the dissolution of the firm a necessity and on the date last mentioned Mr. Katzenberger entered the serv- ice of the Cincinnati News Company as bookkeeper. In the fall of 1886, desiring to resume his studies, he resigned his po- sition and entered the Ann Arbor high school, where he was graduated in June, 1888, three weekjs after his class at Green- ville. Having determined to make the practice of law his life work, Mr. Katzenberger commenced reading law in the office of Hon. John Reiley Knox, but shortly afterward began a course in the law department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in June, 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Subsequently he was admitted to the bars of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. During his collegiate term Mr. Katzenberger wa3 honored by being admitted to the Greek-letter society, Phi Delta Phi, a leading fraternity which had been founded in the law department of the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1869 by Judge Thomas M. Cooley, the eminent jurist, who subsequently became the chairman of the interstate commerce commission. During his college career, Mr. Katzenberger was actively interested in various organiza- tions, among which were the Shakespeare Club, Hobart Guild, Choral Union, Knowlton Nine, and was also an associate editor of the Michigan Argonaut and a correspondent in Michi- gan of the Columbia Law Times.

In July, 1890, Mr. Katzenberger, for the second time, ac- companied his father to Europe, where he spent a year and a half, chiefly in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany. Ar- riving in Bremen in August, he enjoyed a Rhine tour and was at Bingen and Ruedeaheim, enjoying their famous "Laetitia Deorum." He also visited the castles and palaces of the late King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and attended the "Passion Play" at Oberammergau. In October he entered the famed Univer- sity of Heidelberg, where he spent two most enjoyable semes- ters, being a- member of various musical, dueling and social organizations. Here, while attending the lectures on Grecian and modem philosophy by Kuno Fischer, he improved his knowledge of the German language, and, collaterally, ac- quainted himself with the literature of the land of his ances- tors. However enjoyable those months were, Mr. Katzen- berger yearned for his home land, where he desired to enter upon the active practice of his profession. He therefore, with his indulgent father, made a tour through Switzerland to Milan and the northern lake5 of Italy, and then, in November, 1891, returned to the United States.

In December, 1891, Mr. Katzenberger went to Cihcago and established an office opposite the court house, where he soon attained to moderate success and a standing in his profession worthy of his years. During the Columbian Exposition of 1893 he was the secretary of one of the educational committees of the World’s Congress Auxiliary, and during 1903-4 he served as an assistant attorney of the bureau of justice. After the death of his uncle, G. Anthony Katzenberger, the subject returned to Greenville and for awhile assisted hi5 father in business, but afterwards resumed the practice of law as the junior partner in the firm of Elliott & Katzenberger. In the law, his chief work is in the line of probate practice, civil cases, and the collection of foreign estates, in which latter work he has had uniform success. Besides being a member of the Darke County Bar Association, he has for many years been a member of the Ohio Bar Association. He always has been careful and systematic in the preparation of his cases and has been connected with some of the most important litigation tried in the local courts. He always commands the strict at- tention of courts and juries and of his fellow practitioners, and has never been known to fail in that strict courtesy and regard for professional ethics which should ever characterize the mem- bers of the bar. His life has been one of activity and has won for him the respect and confidence of his fellows to a notable degree.

At the national convention of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity in 1893 Mr. Katzenberger was elected the secretary and treas- urer of the governing council, to which position he has been elected eight times successively, in conventions in Washing- ton, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Columbus and New York City. During his administration twenty-two additional chap- ters of the society have been placed in the leading law schools of this country and Canada, and the fraternity n6w has forty- four chapters in as many law schools. In his capacity as sec- retary, Mr. Katzenberger, in 1897-8, compiled a catalogue con- taining five hundred and seventy-five pages, and in 1908 he published a second directory of members, with illustrations, containing three hundred and twenty pages. The amount of work involved in the compilation of these two volumes was stupendous, requiring accurate and painstaking care and countless hours of preparation of manuscript and reading of proof. Several thousand volumes of each edition were pur- chased by members located in various parts of the world.

In the autumn of 1897 Mr. Katzenberger was nominated on the Republican ticket for representative to the General As- sembly, and made a fair race in a county overwhelmingly Democratic. Subsequently he refused several nominations for public offices, preferring to participate only in conventionjs and on the stump. For a period of ten years or more, he has served as treasurer of the vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal church of Greenville ; is one of the directors and since 1900 secretary of the Greenville Building Company; for about ten successive years a councilor of the American Institute of Civics; a life member of the Harvard Germanic Museum and of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society. Since its organization, he has been a member of the Greenville Historical Society, and for several years was its president, during which time a boulder, with bronze tablet inscription, commemorating the treaty of Greenville, was placed in a suitable site, and also a large granite shaft, with bronze tablet, commemorating the erection of a fort by Gen. Arthur St. Clair at Fort Jefferson.

Mr. Katzenberger has spent considerable time and money enlarging a varied collection of relics and curios acquired dur- ing a period of thirty years by his father and uncle Anthony and which was for many years kept in rooms above the old Katzenberger grocery. This collection was removed to the basement of the Carnegie Library and placed in the custody of the school board, who appointed Charles L. Katzenberger honorary curator, and Frazer Wilson, A. C. Robeson and the subject of this sketch curators. The museum now contains about forty cases of objects of general and historical interest, carefully arranged and catalogued by Charles L. Katzen- berger.

Fraternally, Mr. Katzenberger, soon after attaining his ma- jority, became a member of the Masonic order, and was for many years an officer of the blue lodge. He also served as treasurer and now is secretary of the chapter of Royal Arch Masons and also recorder of the council of Royal and Select Masters, while in the Scottish Rite of the order he has attained to the thirty-second degree, belonging to the consistory at Cincinnati. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men and United Commercial Travelers.

At the age of ten years, while on a visit to Germany, Mr. Katzenberger was an interested observer of the fall maneuvers of tbe army, witnessing a grand parade which passed in re- view before Emperor William I, and from that time he has taken a deep interest in military affairs. In 1907, on his return from a ten weeks’ business trip to Europe, he entered the National Guard of Ohio, to which he was impelled by a sense of duty after reflecting on the military superiority of the countries of Europe. He was first appointed a staff officer, with the rank of second lieutenant, but was afterwards pro- moted to adjutant of the First battalion. Third regiment in- fantry, in which capacity he participated in the war maneuvers at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, in 1908, and at the national shoot at Camp Perry, Ohio, in 1909. In 1910 he was made first lieutenant of Company M, of the Third regiment and assumed command on the resignation of its captain, being subsequently elected and commissioned to that position. While in command, his company was ordered to Columbus during the strike riots there, being on duty in vari- ous parts of the city and patrolling extensive lines of suburban railways whose tracks had been damaged by explosives and by the removal of rails. His company also participated in the maneuvers at Fort Benjamin Harrison in 1910 and at other events, such as the Preble county centennial, Wright brothers’ celebration at Dayton, and the like. At the Camp Perry rifle range he has won two bronze medals for markmanship with rifle and one for excellency in revolver shooting. He has con- tributed a number of articles of a military nature to local newspapers, and under his command the company’s strength was increased from thirty-nine men to sixty-two. Eventually, however, finding that his military duties were interfering too much with other and more remunerative occupations, he re- luctantly resigned in 1911. He is now a member of the Mili- tary Service Institution of the United States, the American Red Cross, the United States Infantry Association and the Society of American Officers.

In 1894 Mr. Katzenberger wrote a review of the life and works of David Dudley Field for the Chicago Law Journal. At odd times he has written much for the local press, but his most interesting biographical work is a fifty-page account of Major David Ziegler, the first mayor of Cincinnati. His collection of Wayniana and his variety of engravings of Joan of Arc are not equalled in this country. In his youth Mr. Katzen- berger was interested in collecting coins and postage stamps, but in later years he has, as diversions, turned his attention toward history, the writing of articles for the local press, critir cisms and reviews of concerts and lectures, collections of en- gravings, rare books, etc.

In June, 1899, Mr. Katzenberger married Grace Miesse, a young lady of solid merit and varied accomplishments, and who is a popuar member of the circles in which she moves. She is a talented musician, an ideal matron, and possesses to a notable degree those graces of head and heart which have won for her the love of ail who know her. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to which she is eligible through her descent from Daniel Miesse, who served in a Pennsylvania reg^ent in the war for independence. In 1901 Mrs. Katzenberger made a trip to Germany, remaining there for several months. To Mr. and Mrs. Katzenberger have been born four children, two sons, Charles and George, and two daughters, Catherine and Martha.

Personally, Mr. Katzenberger is a genial and unassuming gentleman, whose social disposition and clean character have commended him to the good opinion of all who know him. In every avenae of activity in which he has engaged he has faithfully performed every duty incumbent upon him and is deserving of the high standing which he enjoys in the com- munity where practically his entire life has been spent.

Mrs. Katzenberger is a charter member of the Altrurian club. Is also an active member of St. Paul’s Episcopal church. Is a granddaughter of Dr, Gabriel Miesse, pioneer physician and surgeon of Greenville.

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Shakespeare Weekend

This weekend we return to The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736). Similar to Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Volume Three of Pope’s work is a thematic variety pack containing comedies, dramas, tragedies, and Shakespeare’s problem play All’s Well that End’s Well. Other plays published within the volume include The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will, The Winter’s Tale, and King Lear.  

Four out of the five engravings in Volume Three were done by Paul Fourdrinier, who was well known throughout England for his exquisite architectural engravings. Fourdrinier’s attention to architectural detail can be seen in his precisely ornate scene settings and talent at creating depth through cross-hatching shadows and voids.  Fourdrinier worked with Tonson several times over the course of his career and founded a stationary business that was eventually taken over by his grandsons who also notably developed a eponymous paper-making machine. 

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend!

Continuing our look at The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), this weekend we pore over Volume Seven.

This volume contains the tragedies Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and problem play Trolius and Cressida. All four plays were published in the First Folio, however Trolius and Cressida seems to have been haphazardly squeezed in on unnumbered pages between the histories and tragedies adding to its genre identification problems. In step with Shakespeare’s other problem plays, Trolius and Cressida’s ambiguous tone bounces around creating a montage of possible intents and leaves viewers puzzled about how to relate to the characters. 

The Tragedy of Macbeth is contemporarily known as a cursed play and superstitiously often referred to as The Scottish Play. Proposed origins of the curse are rumored in Shakespeare having used real witches’ spells in the text below angering witches who then cursed the play.

Like Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend

The ninth volume of The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), is considered a supplementary volume added to the collection in the second edition. As previously mentioned, Volume 9 includes the additional booksellers of C, A. Bettesworth, and F. Clay, in Trust for Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington. Scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play. 

The volume contains seven plays; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The London Prodigal, Thomas Lord Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle, The Puritan, A Yorkshire Tragedy, and Locrine. Thematically the plays span genres ranging from comedy, tragedy and history, but they all share the same underlying question over authorship. The plays were originally attributed to William Shakespeare due to “Written by W.S.” appearing on the title pages of early quartos. Scholars have since argued that the “W.S.” could alternatively credit dramatists and Shakespeare contemporaries Wentworth Smith or William Sly, and historians now attribute Sir John Oldcastle and A Yorkshire Tragedy to prolific Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton. 

Except it's not the last volume, there's one more supplemental volume left that we'll look at next week!

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend

Continuing our look at The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726), this week we examine Volume Four and its imprint variation on the title page. Volumes Four, Five, and Nine all include additional booksellers aside from Jacob Tonson (1655-1736).

The imprint for these three volumes reads “Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; and for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, and F. Clay, in Trust for Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington”. Richard Wellington Sr. was established in the London book trade during the 1700s, shortly after his death in 1715 his wife Mary assigned his stock of books over to Darby, Bettesworth, and Clay in trust for her three children. How or why Wellington was tied to only volumes four, five, and nine of Pope’s work is unknown to us.  

Volume Four contains a group of Shakespearean history plays including King John, King Richard II, King Henry IV Part I, King Henry IV Part II, and King Henry. Similar to Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend

Continuing our synopsis of The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), this weekend we look at Volume Six. The volume contains four plays that bounce thematically between historic and tragic, starting with Henry VIII. Based on the life of Henry VIII, the play was written in collaboration with John Fletcher (1579-1625) and is noted for having more stage directions than any other Shakespearean play.  

Volume Six continues with Timon of Athens another collaboration written with Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), Coriolanus based on the life of the legendary Roman leader and one of the few Shakespearean plays to ever be banned in modern times, and Julius Caesar with its famous “Et tu? Brute!” popping up in Act 3 Scene 1. 

Like Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend!

This week we continue our look at The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736). Similar to Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

This process is called a variorum. Pope began a practice of producing Shakespeare variorum editions that continues to this day with the Modern Language Association's New Variorum Shakespeare Project. That project was centered here at the UW-Milwaukee Libraries for 30 years beginning in 1977 under the direction of Dr. Robert K. Turner, with the assistance of Dr. Virginia Haas.

Volume Two’s Comedy of Errors provides several examples of Pope's editorial additions, including using stars to denote scenes he felt were particularly lovely and daggers for those he found rather ugly. Other editorial notes within Volume Two are seen within Much Ado About Nothing where Pope points out additions from earlier editions and provides definitions for daffe and foining.  

A star marking Pope's appreciation for the scene.

Editorial note by Pope.

Inclusion of definitions by Pope.

Volume Two also includes Shakespearean comedies The Merchant of Venice, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and As You Like It. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend

The tenth volume of The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), is considered a supplementary volume added to the collection in the second edition. It is the last volume of the collection and takes a slight detour in text, opening with several of Shakespeare’s poems and ending with a critical analysis of his plays and the lifecycle of the stage.  

The volume contains the poems Venus and Adonis, Tarquin and Lucrece, and a miscellany of other poems. Venus and Adonis begins with a short dedication to Henry Wriothesly, (1581-1624) Earl of Southampton, where Shakespeare mentions that the poem is “the first heir of my invention” leading historians to assume that it is likely his first publication dating to 1593. Shakespeare also promises within the dedication to compose a “grave labour” and makes good on it in 1594 with Tarquin and Lucrece narrating the rape and suicide of Roman noblewoman Lucretia (d. 510 BC).  

The critical analysis of Shakespeare’s plays and essay on the Art, Rise and Progress of the Stage were both written by Charles Gildon (1665-1724). While Gildon was an essayist and biographer, he was also known as an English hack writer and nemesis of Alexander Pope; it is unclear how Gildon would have gotten the opportunity to be included in the volume. Full page engravings by Flemish artist Michael Vandergucht (1660-1725) precede the poems of Volume 10, as does a glossary of old words used within Shakespeare’s works.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend

The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson (1655-1736), is considered complete in 8, 9, or 10 volumes. Pope’s second edition, as we see here, was published in 8 volumes with supplementary 9th and 10th volumes.

As such, Volume Eight includes an index of the characters, sentiments, speeches and descriptions found throughout the first eight volumes. It concludes with, in Pope’s words, “various readings and guesses” that Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) had published in 1726 as editorial amendments to the collection with the intent to “restore the true reading of Shakespeare”. In a bit of catty accusations, Pope claims Theobald had originally withheld his information at the time of the first pressing, and that he only used roughly twenty-five words of Theobald’s corrections in the second edition.  

The plays within volume eight are all tragedies dealing with themes of innocence, jealousy, revenge, and fate; they include Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello. Pope notes that the story of Hamlet was not invented by Shakespeare but that its source is unclear. Regardless, Hamlet is hailed as one of the greatest plays of all time and at 29, 551 words is Shakespeare’s longest.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Shakespeare Weekend

This weekend we return to The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in ten volumes with the fifth volume published in 1728 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and Dr. George Sewell (d. 1726) for Jacob Tonson. Volume Five is made up of King Henry VI Part I, King Henry VI Part II, King Henry VI Part III, and King Richard III. The four plays create a tetralogy that covers the entire saga of the Wars of the Roses, a series of 15th century civil wars fought to determine control of the English throne.  

King Henry VI Part I enacts the loss of England’s French territories and the political momentum spurring on the Wars of the Roses. Part II delves into King Henry’s failings and the rise of the Duke of York. Part III documents the chaos and horror of war and contains one of the longest soliloquies in all of Shakespeare. The volume ends with King Richard III depicting the violent rise and short reign of King Richard III.  

Like Rowe’s earlier collection, scene divisions, stage directions, dramatis personae, and full-page engravings by either French artist Louis Du Guernier (1677-1716) or Englishman Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) precede each play.  

Pope’s editions of Shakespeare were the first attempted to collate all previous publications. He consulted twenty-seven early quartos restoring passages that had been out of print for almost a century while simultaneously removing about 1,560 lines of material that didn’t appeal to him. Some of those lines were degraded to the bottom of the page with his other editorial notes.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Updated Booklist: January

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett White Fang by Jack London 1984 by George Orwell Diary by Chuck Palahnuk In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw Dracula by Bram Stoker On Killing by Dave Grossman Candide by Voltaire Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Call me Zelda by Erika Roebuck Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Roebuck Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis The Reason for God by Timothy Keller The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson The only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Trial by Francis Kafka Necromancer by William Gibson The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Stranger by Albert Camus Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Animal Farm by George Orwell Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Watchman by Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys Never Let Me Down by Kazuo Ishiguro Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope Book of Night Women by Marion James 11/22/63 by Stephen King Who Asked You? By Terry McMillan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy Legend by Marie Lu Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn “On Writing” by Stephen King Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Middlemarch by George Eliot Silas Marner by George Eliot Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Books that changed the World by Andrew Taylor Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Of Mice and Man by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Forever by Judy Blume My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin The Lottery by Shirley Jackson One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Separate Peace by John Knowles One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Deliverance by James Dickey The Good Earth by Pearl Buck A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich by Alice Childress The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway It’s OK if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Tess of D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Complete Works of Shakespeare Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Bleak House by Charles Dickens War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Moby Dick by Herman Melville Typee by Herman Melville Watership Down by Richard Adams Ulysses by James Joyce The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Weird History 101 by John Richards Stephens The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Lost Empire by Clive Cussler Persuasion by Jane Austen Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis The Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Emma by Jane Austen The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Beloved by Toni Morrision Orlando by Virginia Woolf Tracks by Louise Erdich Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern White Teeth by Zadie Smith Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf The Awakening by Kate Chopin Three Great Plays by Eugene O’Neill Indian Drums and Broken Arrows by Craig Massey Our Town by Thorton Wilder A Raw Youth by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis Stepping Heavenward by E. Prentiss Lively Art of Writing by Lucille Vaughn Payne Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan Works of Josephus Volume III by Josephus The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Scorch Trials by James Dashner The Death Cure by James Dashner Angels and Demons by Dan Brown The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd Cry, My Beloved Country by Alan Paton Goliath by Scott Westerfeld The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson The Girl who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson Wicked by Gregory Maguire Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor Looking for Alaska by John Green Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche The Jungle by Upton Sinclair King Arthur and the Knight of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin Anthem by Ayn Rand Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild On War by Carl Von Clausewitz August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Only a Theory by Kenneth Miller My Ten Years in a Quandry by Robert Benchly One Day by David Nicholls The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket The End by Lemony Snicket Selected Writings by Gertrude Stein The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Life of Pi by Yann Martel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Three More Plays by George O’Neill Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery The Once and Future King by T. H. White Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Poetry by Emily Dickenson The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan The Sea of Monster by Rick Riordan The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan The Metamorphoses by Ovid The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Revenant by Michael Punke The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Grendel by John Gardner The Fault In Our Stars by John Green I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Eragon by Christopher Paolini Eldest by Christopher Paolini Inheritance by Christopher Paolini Brsinger by Christopher Paolini Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forestor Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Pocket Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer On Writing by Charles Bukowski Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith Crazy Love by Francis Chan The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Penny Dreadfuls by Stefan Dziemianowics Classic Works by F. Scott Fitgerald John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes by Stefan Dziemianowics Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie Mcdonald The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Divergent by Veronica Roth A History of Greece by J. B. Bury Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Inkspell by Cornelia Funke Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Jungle book by Rudyard Kipling A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling

TL;DR: It’s a shit load of books. Wish Me Luck!!!