THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE,

Accurately printed from

THE TEXT OF THE CORRECTED COPY LEFT BY THE LATE

GEORGE STEEVENS, Esq.

WITH

Glossarial Notes.

To which are prefixed,

An Account of the Life and Writings of Shakspeare,
BY MR. ROWE,

AND

DR. JOHNSON's CELEBRATED PREFACE TO HIS EDITION
OF SHAKSPEARE, PRINTED IN 1765.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London:

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SAMS, BOOKSELLER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK,
PALL-MALL; BULT, BAKER-STREET, PORTMAN-SQUARE; HAILES,
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MDCCCXXIV.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF

EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

23-1

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Great care has been taken to render this edition of the Plays of Shakspeare as valuable as possible ; and for this purpose the text is not only accurately printed from the copy left corrected for the press by the late GEORGE STEEVENS, Esq. and printed in twentyone volumes, octavo, but MR. Rowe's Account of his Life and Writings is prefixed, as well as DR. JOHNSON'S celebrated Preface to his edition of our immortal Bard, printed in 1765.

At the end of each play, DR. JOHNSON's remarks are also subjoined; and to render the mines of this inexhaustible author more easily explored, at the bottom of every page all obsolete words, or obscure sentiments, are explained by a Glossary, or by a Note as concise as possible.