3 - Textual Studies

Summary

Last year this review took unaccustomed note of the deaths of three eminent Shakespearian editors, and it is with regret that it must add to its Necrology this year the names of Alfred Harbage and Charlton Hinman, the former the general editor of the Pelican Shakespeare in America, the latter the author of the monumental study of the printing of the First Folio.

Perhaps the most important item of bibliographical interest in 1976-7 was the publication of Volume 2 (I-Z) of the revised Short Title Catalogue, edited by W. A. Jackson and F. S, Ferguson, completed and seen through the press by the generous and capable Katharine F. Pantzer. Yet, important as it surely is, the new STC adds little to Shakespearian bibliography: two late issues of the Second Folio published after 1640 and one edition of The Passionate Pilgrim earlier than the 'first' edition in the unrevised STC (unique copy, fragmentary, at the Folger Library).