Shakespeare Publishing at Oxford University Press
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Key Events
in the Literary World
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18th Century
1744: The Press published Hanmer's plays. The selling out of an edition in so short a time as 3 years was without precedence in the history of the delegate's publishing. Dibdin (1824) described the edition as 'a necessary accession to any rich man's library.'
1770-71: A second Edition of Hanmer's Shakespeare plays was published.
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18th Century
1719: Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
1726: Swift: Gulliver's Travels
1769: Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee held in Stratford-Upon-Avon, three days of events and celebrations
1783: Blake: Poetical Sketches
1798: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
1790: Edmond Malone's edition of Shakespeare
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19th Century
1865: The Clarendon Press Series: Publication of Shakespeare's history plays edited by Clark and Aldis Wright.
1865: Publication of the One Volume Globe Shakespeare edited by Clark and Aldis Wright.
1885-91: 12 Shakespeare plays published in A Series of English Classics edited by Aldis Wright.
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19th Century
1808: Goethe: Faust
1813: Austen: Pride and Prejudice
1817: Hazlitt: The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
1817: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
1847: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
1845: Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
1854: Dickens: Hard times
1879: Ibsen: Doll's House
1891: Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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20th Century
1907: The delegates of the Press approved a proposal for a collaborative book on Shakespeare's England under the supervision of Walter Raleigh. Geoffrey Faber, Walter Raleigh and Sidney Lee worked on the project.
1916: Tercentenary Commemoration of Shakespeare's Death
Despite depleted staffs and diminishing supplies of paper after the war. C.T Onions re-awakened the project for a book on Shakespeare's England started in 1907. The copy was ready in 1916, and the book published in April. It was in 2 large volumes of 1,200 pages with 195 illustrations.
Faber wrote “What it cost the Press from start to finish is anybody's guess.”
1916: Milford engaged on another project for the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, A Book of Homage to Shakespeare edited by Israel Gollancz. It had 166 contributions written in 30 different languages.
1939: R.B. McKerrow's Prolegomena for the Oxford Shakespeare was published as an introduction to the major old-spelling edition on which 'substantial progress' had already been made.
1982: Launch of The Oxford Shakespeare
series edited by Stanley Wells, also published in paperback as Oxford World's Classics
1986: Publication of
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor.
1997: Publication of the first book in the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series.
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20th Century
1914: Joyce: Dubliners
1920: Wilfred Owen: Poems
1925: Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
1930: W.H. Auden: Poems
1954: Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
1955: Tennessee Williams: Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof
1975: Pinter: No Man's Land
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21st Century
2001: Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson's Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage
2001: Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells' The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
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21st Century
2010: Oxford English Dictionary 3rd Edition due to publish
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