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BY
THOMAS KEIGHTLEY,
EDITOR OF THE 'PLAYS AND POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE.'
LONDON:
J. RUSSELL SMITH, 36 SOHO SQUARE.
1867.
Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
The object of this volume is to form a manual for theuse chiefly of those who, not being possessed of a voluminousannotated edition, are fain to content themselveswith the simple text. But even those who have a perfectShakespeare library cannot well dispense with it;for my original corrections, which are very numerous,are nowhere else to be found.
It was originally intended to form the complement tomy Edition of the Plays, and as such I had announcedits immediate appearance. Why it did not appear hasbeen explained in Notes and Queries (3 S. vii. 175), andthe statement there made was incontrovertible; for itwas the simple truth. The delay, however, has beenno injury, but rather a benefit to it. Its relation to theEdition now is that, while it is perfectly independent andsuited to any edition, the Edition without it is somewhatlike what a Euclid would be without diagrams ordemonstrations, as the reader will meet with numerousalterations of the text, and be quite ignorant of how orwhy they were made. Moreover the errors and oversightswhich escaped me in it will be found here allcorrected.
To my own Edition I regard it, then, as indispensable;and if I were to mention any other to which it is peculiarlyadapted, I should say that which is named theGlobe; for it contains a copious and excellent Glossary—thatin mine, which is not by me, is scanty—which,with the Notes and Index of this volume, will leavelittle unexplained.
It is certainly very disheartening to those who devotetheir time and labour to the elucidation of our Classicauthors to find how small the number is of those readersiv...