The Life of Henry the Fift

The Life of Henry the Fift Synopsis

Excerpt from The Life of Henry the Fift: The Players' d104 of 1600, With the Heminges and Condell d104 of 1623

Let us now inquire whence the publishers oh tained their copy of Henry V., that is to say, let us look into the history of the Quartos of this play which had been issued previously to 1623. It will, of course, be remembered that although many of the separate editions of our author's dramas, which had been printed before the appearance of the First Folio, were pirated and unauthorized; and although the publishers of that collected edition emphatically complained of these stolne and surreptitious cop ies, yet, if any edition had been - however unfairly -entred to other men, possession was at least some points of the law, and the authorized drama was not entered afresh at Stationers' Hall by the grand possessors.

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