from the Editor ها SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH EDITED, WITH NOTES BY WILLIAM J. ROLFE, LITT. D. FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK .:. CINCINNATI ·:· CHICAGO HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FEB 151908 CAMBRIDGE, MASS The Editor COPYRIGHT, 1871, 1883, AND 1898, BY HARPER & BROTHERS. COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY WILLIAM J. ROLFE. COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY WILLIAM J. ROLFE. HENRY VIII. W. P. I PREFACE THIS play, which I edited in 1871, and revised in 1883, with the addition of line numbers, is now reissued with further and fuller revision on the same plan as the sixteen plays that have preceded it in the series. The notes credited to " Adee" were sent to me when I was at work on the play in 1883 by my good friend, Hon. Alvey A. Adee, of Washington, D.C., then, as now, First Assistant Secretary of State, and an accomplished Shakespeare scholar and critic. The notes credited to "White" are from Mr. Richard Grant White's first and fully annotated edition of Shakespeare in twelve volumes, not from the later abridged "Riverside" edition, and were used with his permission and approval. |