Fools and jesters
by Robert Armin, John P. (John Payne) (ed.) Collier
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8vo. pp. xx, 67. Original cloth. Originally printed in London in 1608, “by T.E. for Iohn Deane.”
A reprint from the madcap prose farrago ‘A Nest of Ninnies’ (1608) by the comedian of Shakespeare’s company, Robert Armin, of which Collier, through Halliwell, had procured a transcript from the Bodleian Library. In this edition, Collier permitted himself a gratuitous slur on the scholarship of his fellow member Charles Knight, with whose popular edition of Shakespeare Collier’s own had begun to compete. See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 374-375; II, A49.
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