∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵
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
Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press
First published, September, 1917
| 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 |
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.
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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