Richard II (1921) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Richard II (Shakespeare).

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∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵

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THE TRAGEDY OF KING
RICHARD THE SECOND

 

EDITED BY
LLEWELLYN M. BUELL

 

 

NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXXI

 

Copyright, 1921
By Yale University Press

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First published, 1921

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	25
⁠Act III	50
⁠Act IV	72
⁠Act V	84
Notes	107
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	122
Appendix B. The History of the Play	128
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	135
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	138
Appendix E. Historical Dates of Scenes	139
Appendix F. Genealogical Chart	142
Index of Words Glossed	143

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the Fourth Quarto (1608).

 

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