{"id":1612,"date":"2014-04-16T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:58:49","slug":"the-bard-in-the-watkinson-10-the-steevens-20-plays-edition-of-1766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/04\/16\/the-bard-in-the-watkinson-10-the-steevens-20-plays-edition-of-1766\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard in the Watkinson (10): the Steevens &#8220;20 plays&#8221; edition of 1766"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Steevens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1613\" alt=\"Steevens\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Steevens-178x300.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Steevens-178x300.jpg 178w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Steevens-608x1024.jpg 608w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Steevens.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>George Steevens (1736-1800) was born of wealthy parents, attended Eton and King&#8217;s College (Cambridge), and set about a career as an independent scholar, specializing mainly in Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>The edition shown here is a selection of &#8220;the whole number printed in quarto during his lifetime, or before the restoration,&#8221; the texts of which Steevens apparently obtained from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Garrick\">David Garrick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Murphy, <em>Shakespeare in Print <\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Steevens (1736-1800) was born of wealthy parents, attended Eton and King&#8217;s College (Cambridge), and set about a career as an independent scholar, specializing mainly in Shakespeare. The edition shown here is a selection of &#8220;the whole number printed in quarto during his lifetime, or before the restoration,&#8221; the texts of which Steevens apparently obtained [&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\/1612"}],"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=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}