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Old-Spelling Shakespeare

Old-Spelling Shakespeare (1907–9).
An ambitious project to issue all Shakespeare's works in 40 volumes ‘in such a form as would have harmonized with the poet's own orthography’ (Prospectus) was part of the plan for the Shakespeare Library, general editor Israel Gollancz. These old-spelling texts, edited initially by F. J. Furnivall and W. G. Boswell-Stone, and from 1908 by Boswell-Stone and F. W. Clarke, included modern stage directions in brackets, collations, and brief textual notes. They were handsomely printed in a limited edition, beginning with the comedies in 1907. Only thirteen plays were issued, as the project was then halted. It was not until 1986 that another modern old-spelling edition was published, as part of the Oxford Shakespeare.

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