Memoirs of the principal actors in the plays of Shakespeare by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.

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8vo. pp. xxxviii, 296. Original dark greyish reddish brown cloth. Collection of biographical notices of the 25 actors named in the First Folio as the principal actors in the plays of Shakespeare. The genuineness of two documents referred to by Collier in a number of passages has been questioned. See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 461-469; II, A65. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.