∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM
EDITED BY
WILLARD HIGLEY DURHAM
NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXVIII
Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press
First published, September, 1918
TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
PAGE | |
The Text | 1 |
Act I | 1 |
Act II | 14 |
Act III | 29 |
Act IV | 53 |
Act V | 63 |
Notes | 80 |
Appendix A. Sources of the Play | 88 |
Appendix B. The History of the Play | 89 |
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition | 91 |
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 92 |
Index of Words Glossed | 93 |
The facsimile opposite represents the unusually handsome title-page of the genuine edition of 1600. The photograph is made from the Elizabethan Club copy, which was formerly in the Heber, Daniel, and Huth libraries. Seven other copies of this edition are known.
THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke
Willard Higley Durham
Published under the Direction
of the
Department of English, Yale University,
on the Fund
Given to the Yale University Press in 1917
by the Members of the
Kingsley Trust Association
To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Society
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