Locrine by William Shakespeare - Apocryphal (Illustrated)

By William Shakespeare

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Locrine’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786563101

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is arguably the most famous playwright to ever live. Born in England, he attended grammar school but did not study at a university. In the 1590s, Shakespeare worked as partner and performer at the London-based acting company, the King’s Men. His earliest plays were Henry VI and Richard III, both based on the historical figures. During his career, Shakespeare produced nearly 40 plays that reached multiple countries and cultures. Some of his most notable titles include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. His acclaimed catalog earned him the title of the world’s greatest dramatist.

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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VOLUME 44 OF 74

Locrine

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2012

Version 6

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‘Locrine’

William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 44 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Locrine from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IN 74 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Plays

1, Henry  VI, Part 2

2, Henry  VI, Part 3

3, Henry  VI, Part 1

4, Richard  III

5, The Comedy of Errors

6, Titus Andronicus

7, Taming of the Shrew

8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

10, Romeo and Juliet

11, Richard II

12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

13, King John

14, The Merchant of Venice

15, Henry IV, Part I

16, Henry IV, Part II

17, Much Ado About Nothing

18, Henry V

19, Julius Caesar

20, As You Like It

21, Twelfth Night

22, Hamlet

23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

24, Troilus and Cressida

25, All’s Well that Ends Well

26, Measure for Measure

27, Othello

28, King Lear

29, Macbeth

30, Antony and Cleopatra

31, Coriolanus

32, Timon of Athens

33, Pericles

34, Cymbeline

35, The Winter’s Tale

36, The Tempest

37, Henry  VIII

38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Lost Plays

39, The Lost Plays

The Sources

40, The Plays’ Sources

The Apocryphal Plays

41, Arden of Faversham

42, The Birth of Merlin

43, King Edward  III

44, Locrine

45, The London Prodigal

46, The Puritan

47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

48, Sir John Oldcastle

49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

51, Sir Thomas More

52, Fair Em

53, Mucedorus

54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

55, Edmund Ironside

56, Thomas of Woodstock

57, Vortigern and Rowena

The Adaptations

58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

The Poetry

59, The Sonnets

60, Venus and Adonis

61, The Rape of Lucrece

62, The Passionate Pilgrim

63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

64, A Lover’s Complaint

The Apocryphal Poetry

65, To the Queen

66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

The Criticism

68, The Criticism

The Biographies

69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

Resources

74, Resources

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Locrine

This play depicts the legendary Trojan founders of England and of Troynovant (London).  Locrine was entered in the Stationers’ Register on July 20, 1594, and published in 1595 in a quarto issued by the printer Thomas Creede. The title page of the 1595 quarto advertised the play as Newly set foorth, overseene and corrected, / By W. S. An identification of W. S. with William Shakespeare apparently led to the play’s inclusion among the seven works that Philip Chetwinde added to the second impression of his Shakespeare Third Folio in 1664 — which in turn led to the inclusion of Locrine in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. The play’s stiff, formal verse is not Shakespearean — but the extant text of Locrine does show evidence of revision. The authorship of the original play has been assigned to several dramatists of the era, George Peele and Robert Greene being the two most common candidates.

CONTENTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

ACT I. PROLOGUE.

ACT I. SCENE I.

ACT 1. SCENE 2. The house of Strumbo.

ACT I. SCENE 3. An apartment in the palace.

ACT II. PROLOGUE.

ACT II. SCENE I.

ACT II. SCENE II.

ACT II. SCENE III. The camp of Albanact.

ACT II. SCENE IV. The camp of Humber.

ACT II. SCENE V. Another part of the field of battle.

ACT II. SCENE VI. The camp of the Huns.

ACT III. PROLOGUE.

ACT III. SCENE I. Troynouant. An apartment in the Royal Palace.

ACT III. SCENE II. The banks of the river, afterward the Humber.

ACT III. SCENE III. Before the hut of a peasant.

ACT III. SCENE IV. The camp of Locrine.

ACT III. SCENE V. The field of battle.

ACT III. SCENE VI. Another part of the field.

ACT IV. PROLOGUE.

ACT IV. SCENE I. The camp of Locrine.

ACT IV. SCENE II. A forest.

ACT IV. SCENE