PREFACE

THIS play, which I first edited in 1881, is now thoroughly revised on the same general plan as the earlier volumes in the series.

The play is so badly printed in the folio, the style is so involved, and many passages are so obscure, that it has seemed advisable in the Notes to retain many of the textual variations recorded in my former edition, and to summarize the conflicting opinions of the leading editors and critics on the more important of the perplexing passages. These controverted points furnish good material for discussion in classes and clubs, and critical students and readers will be more or less interested in them.