If we structure the display around a chronological publication history of Shakespeare, here's one way we could organize it:
Shelf 1 - Earliest texts and first generation of editors / Age of Pope
1600 Midsummer Night's Dream quarto
1632 Second Folio
[1709 Nicholas Rowe - EEBO - skip?]
1725 Pope - SC Archives
1733 Theobald - attacked Pope
[1747 Warburton - SC Archives - skip?]
Shelf 2 - Second generation of editors / Age of Johnson
1765 Johnson - best known for his preface
1768 Capell - first editor to base his text on quartos and folios
1773 Steevens - worked with Johnson, extremely quarrelsome
Shelf 3 - Third generation of editors / Romantic Age
1793 Reed - first variorum
1818 Bowdler - SC Archives
1821 Boswell - third variorum
I'm least certain about that first shelf - my instinct is that it's important to show an example of an early quarto and folio, just so people know what the editors were drawing from. It might leave us a little squeezed for space, though. Thoughts?
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