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FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD (1833– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FURNESS, See also:HORACE See also:HOWARD (1833– ) , See also:American Shakespearian See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia on the and of See also:November 1833, being the son of See also:William See also:Henry Furness (1802–1896) See also:minister of the First Unitarian See also:church in that See also:city, a powerful preacher and writer. He graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1859, but soon devoted himself to the study of See also:Shakespeare. He accumulated a collection of illustrative material of See also:great richness and extent, and brought out in 1871 the first See also:volume of a new Variorum edition, designed to represent and summarize the conclusions of the best authorities in all languages—textual, See also:critical and annotative. The volumes appeared as follows: Romeo and Juliet (1871); See also:Macbeth (1873) (revised edition, 1903); See also:Hamlet (2 vols., 1877); See also:King See also:Lear (188o); Othello (1886); The See also:Merchant of See also:Venice (1888); As You Like It (1890); The See also:Tempest (1892); A Midsummer See also:Night's See also:Dream (1895); The See also:Winter's See also:Tale (1898); Much See also:Ado about Nothing (1899); Twelfth Night (1901); Love's Labour's Lost (1904). The edition has been generally accepted as a thorough and scholarly piece of See also:work; its See also:chief See also:fault is that, beginning with Othello (1886), the editor used the First See also:Folio See also:text as his basis, while in others he makes the text of the See also:Cambridge (Globe) editors his See also:foundation. His wife, See also:Helen Kate Furness (1837–1883), compiled A See also:Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare (1872).

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