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The Yale Shakespeare
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EDITED BY
TUCKER BROOKE
NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMVII
Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press
First published, July, 1917
TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
PAGE | |
The Text | 1 |
Act I | 1 |
Act II | 17 |
Act III | 43 |
Act IV | 64 |
Act V | 80 |
Notes | 107 |
Appendix A. Sources of the Play | 124 |
Appendix B. The History of the Play | 128 |
Appendix C. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 130 |
Appendix D. The Text of the Present Edition | 131 |
Index of Words Glossed | 132 |
The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the only early quarto edition. Fifteen copies of this edition are known to survive.
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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