Excerpt from The Works of William Shakespeare the Cambridge Text: With Historical and Analytical, Prefaces, Comments, Critical, and Explanatory Notes, Glossaries, Life of History of the Early, English Drama and a Complete Index
Early Editions. In 1600 a quarto edition of Titus Andronicus was published, bearing the following title-page: -
"The most lamenta- | ble Romaine Tragedie of Titus | Andronicus. | As it hath sundry times been playde by the | Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke, the | Earl of Darbie, the Earle of Sussex, and the | Lorde Cham-berlaine theyr | Seruants. | At London, | Printed by I. R. for Edward White | and are to bee solde at his shoppe, at the little | North doore of Paules, at the signe of | the Gun. 1600." This is the earliest known edition, and is referred to as Quarto I.
Another quarto, printed from the former, was brought out in 1611: -
"The | most lamen- | table Tragedie | of Titus Andronicus. | As it hath sundry | times beene ploide by the Kings Maiesties Seruants. | London, | Printed for Edward White, and are to be solde | at his shoppe, nere the little North dore of I Pauls, at the .signe of the Gun. 1611."
In the 1st Folio Titus Andronicus comes between Co-riolanus and Romeo and Juliet; the text was somewhat carelessly printed from a copy of the Second Quarto with MS. additions. The Second Scene of the Third Act, not found in the quartos, is peculiar to the Folio version.
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