For other versions of this work, see Winter's Tale (Shakespeare).
The Winter's Tale (1918)
William Shakespeare, edited by Frederick Erastus Pierce

Part of The Yale Shakespeare series.

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The Winter's Tale

EDITED BY
FREDERICK E. PIERCE

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXVIII

Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press


First published, January, 1918

The facsimile opposite reproduces the first page of 'The Winter's Tale' from the earliest printed edition, the Shakespeare Folio of 1623. This play is there the fourteenth in order among the thirty-six in the volume and stands at the end of the division of 'Comedies.' The facsimile has been made from the Elizabethan Club copy of the Folio and is about one-third the size of the original.

The title page of the play from the First Folio of 1623

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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