Thomas Pavier - Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Thomas Pavier is best remembered for his editions of Shakespearean plays, and plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha:

• Sir John Oldcastle — he registered the play on 11 August 1600 and published it before the end of that year. This first quarto was issued anonymously; the attribution to Shakespeare would not appear until 1619.
• Henry V — Pavier obtained the rights to the play, first printed in 1600, from Thomas Millington and John Busby, on 14 August 1600; he published the second quarto of Henry V in 1602.
• Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3 — Pavier secured the rights to the previously-printed versions of these plays from Thomas Millington on 19 April 1602. These were the early alternative versions of the two plays, short-titled The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York. Pavier did not publish the plays immediately, however; they did not appear in print again until they were included in the so-called False Folio affair (see below).
• A Yorkshire Tragedy — Pavier registered the play on 2 May 1608, and published it that year with a title-page attribution to Shakespeare.