Romeo and Juliet (1917) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Romeo and Juliet (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

 

Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press

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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

 

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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