TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET. EDITED, WITH Notes, BY WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A.M., FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ENGLISH CLASSICS. EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, A.M. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, 70 cents per volume; Paper, 50 cents per volume. Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part Copyright, 1879, by HARPER & BROTHERS. PREFACE. IN preparing the text of this edition, I have made use of the collations in Furness's "New Variorum" and the "Cambridge” editions ; and also of the reprints of the Quartos of 1597 and 1599, and Daniel's "revised edition" of the latter, all three published by the New Shakspere Society. In the notes I have been specially indebted to Furness. There is little left for the gleaner in any field where he has been reaping; but he has generously allowed me to draw at pleasure from his rich garners to help "upfill this osier cage of ours." In some cases where he has merely recorded criticisms, I have ventured to discuss them; and I have also been able to pick up some things for myself from the additions made to the literature of the play in the seven years since his edition appeared. The teacher, of course, cannot afford to do without his edition, which is a library distilled into a volume. If my little book, such as it is, shall be received as kindly as its predecessors have been, I shall feel more than repaid for the labor spent upon it. CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 1, 1879. 187070 |