COMEDY OF THE

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

EDITED, WITH NOTES,

BY

WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A.M.,

FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

WITH ENGRAVINGS.

· ΕΧΟΝΤΕΣ ΔΙΔΩΣΟΥ ΤΑ

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1884.

ENGLISH

CLASSICS.

EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, A.M.

Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, 56 cents per volume; Paper, 40 cents per volume.

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Copyright, 1882, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

I. THE HISTORY OF THE PLAY.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona first appeared in the folio of 1623, where it occupies pages 20-38 in the division of " Comedies." The earliest reference to it that has been discovered