The Cambridge Shakespeare been considered profane, where needed to preserve metre or meaning. In 2009, Cambridge University Press reissued all nine volumes as part of their "Cambridge Library Collection" which aims to preserve access to "books of enduring scholarly value". The reissued editions are: "The New Shakespeare" was published between 1921 and 1969. The series was edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and J. Dover Wilson. The earlier volumes of the series contain critical introductions by Quiller-Couch (signed "Q") and written in a "belles lettres" style that, according to R. A. Foakes in "The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare" (2003), have been "largely forgotten". The textual
Richard Couch Richard Couch Sir Richard Couch (1817–1905) was an Anglo-Indian judge who served on the colonial courts of India and also on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire. Couch was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay in 1866. He served for four years in that position, before being appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta, serving in that post from 1870 to 1875. Upon his retirement from the High Court of Calcutta, Couch was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council