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Horace Howard Furness

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Horace Howard Furness , 1833-1912, American Shakespearean scholar, b. Philadelphia; son of William Henry Furness. He was the editor of the New Variorum edition of Shakespeare (plays published separately, 1871-1913). His son, Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1865-1930, succeeded him as editor and donated his father's Shakespearean library to the Univ. of Pennsylvania.

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