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 Quiller Couch on 8 May 1863, aged47, leaving a widow and four children. Attribution Richard Quiller Couch Richard Quiller Couch, (14 March 18168 May 1863), British naturalist, eldest son of Jonathan Couch, was born at Polperro, Cornwall, UK on 14 March 1816. After receiving a medical education under his father and at Guy's Hospital, London, where he gained several honours and prizes and obtained the ordinary medical qualifications, he returned to Polperro to assist his father, and employed his leisure in careful zoological study. In 1845 he settled in Penzance as a medical practitioner, and in a few years became recognised as