| + | Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w. |
Shakespeare, William. Complete dramatic and poetic works; ed. from the text of the early quartos and the first folio by William A. Neilson. $3. Houghton.
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Uniform with “Cambridge poets,” this volume shares with the others of the series the excellencies of book making. Professor Neilson’s “radical procedure in frankly adopting a modern punctuation will probably please readers, if they notice it, and raise questions among scholars. His rearrangement of the plays according to chronology within the three well-recognized divisions of comedies, histories, and tragedies, by which ‘Tempest’ appears as the seventeenth instead of the first play, is likely to give qualms to readers rather than to scholars. Both innovations seem to me to be worth trying, and it is needless to approve the small amount of textual apparatus in such an edition and the consequent saving of space for a good glossary.” (Forum.)
“We recommend it most cordially to the scholar, the student, and the general reader.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 262. My. ’07. 170w. |
“Calls for a word of hearty praise.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w. |
“Professor Neilson ... has done a real service in his one volume of Shakespeare. His critical introduction and textual notes are very admirable.”