Romeo and Juliet (1917) Yale

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∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵

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THE MOST EXCELLENT AND
LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY

OF

ROMEO AND JULIET

EDITED BY
WILLARD HIGLEY DURHAM

 

 

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

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Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press

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First published, September, 1917

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
Prologue	1
Act I	2
Act II	30
Act III	55
Act IV	85
Act V	101
Notes	119
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	130
Appendix B. The History of the Play	133
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	135
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	137
Index of Words Glossed	138

 

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The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the 1599 quarto. The Roxburghe arms and the signature of George Steevens indicate former owners. Eleven copies of this edition are known to survive.

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THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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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

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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