{"id":1582,"date":"2014-04-09T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:59:29","slug":"the-bard-in-the-watkinson-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/04\/09\/the-bard-in-the-watkinson-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard in the Watkinson (7): Rowe edition (1709)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1583\" alt=\"Rowe0001\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0001-126x300.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0001-126x300.jpg 126w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0001-431x1024.jpg 431w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0001.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>Unfortunately our copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=453339\">Rowe edition<\/a> is incomplete, and has been damaged by water.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) was a lawyer, playwright, and minor politician. In his editing of Shakespeare, Rowe essentially followed the Fourth Folio edition of 1685, although he claimed to have arrived at the text by comparing \u201cthe several editions.\u201d He did, however, restore some passages in <em>Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, <\/em>and <em>King Lear <\/em>from early texts.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being the first illustrated edition of Shakespeare\u2019s collected works, this set marks the first octavo edition, the first to contain a biography of Shakespeare, and the first edition to bear an editor\u2019s name. The seventh volume, produced by Edward Curll, contains poems. Rowe worked mainly from Fourth Folio. His contributions included lists of <em>dramatis personae<\/em>, act and scene divisions, and characters\u2019 entrances and exits. His &#8220;Some Account of the Life, &amp;c., of Mr. William Shakespear&#8221; served as the standard Shakespeare biography for the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1584\" alt=\"Rowe0002\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0002-300x241.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0002-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Rowe0002-1024x824.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Andrew Murphy, <em>Shakespeare in Print <\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately our copy of the Rowe edition is incomplete, and has been damaged by water. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) was a lawyer, playwright, and minor politician. In his editing of Shakespeare, Rowe essentially followed the Fourth Folio edition of 1685, although he claimed to have arrived at the text by comparing \u201cthe several editions.\u201d He did, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}