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The plays in their literary aspect, edited
by scholars of literary as well as academic
distinction. Based on the Globe Text

HAMLET.

The following Plays are Ready

Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B. A., Oxford. MACBETH.

Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B. A., Oxford. JULIUS CAESAR.

Edited by Arthur D. Innes, M. A., Oxford. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.

Edited by H. L. Withers, B. A., Oxford. TWELFTH NIGHT.

Edited by Arthur D. Innes, M. A., Oxford. AS YOU LIKE IT.

Edited by J. C. Smith, M. A., Edinburgh. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B. A., Oxford. CYMBELINE.

Edited by A. J. Wyatt, M. A., Cambridge.

THE TEMPEST.

Edited by F. S. Boas, M. A., Oxford.

KING JOHN.

Edited by G. C. Moore Smith, M. A., Cambridge. RICHARD II.

Edited by C. H. Herford, L.H.D., Cambridge. RICHARD III.

Edited by George Macdonald, M. A., Oxford. HENRY V.

Edited by G. C. Moore Smith, M. A., Cambridge. HENRY VIII.

Edited by D. Nicol Smith, M. A., Edinburgh. CORIOLANUS.

Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B. A., Oxford.

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Edited by Martha Foote Crow, M.D., University of Chicago. HENRY IV.

Edited by Charles L. Young, A.B., Harvard University. ROMEO AND JULIET.

Edited by Edwin Mims, M.A., Trinity College, Durham, N. C. LOVE'S LABOR LOST.

Edited by John Bell Henneman, Ph.D., University of Ten

nessee.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Edited by J. C. Smith, M. A., Edinburgh.

The remaining volumes will also be edited.

Price, 25 cents per volume

THE TRAGEDY

OF

MACBETH

EDITED BY

E. K. CHAMBERS, B.A.

SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, oxford

BOSTON, U. S. A.
D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS

1902

IN this edition of SHAKESPEARE an attempt is made to present the greater plays of the dramatist in their literary aspect, and not merely as material for the study of philology or grammar. Criticism purely verbal and textual has only been included to such an extent as may serve to help the student in the appreciation of the essential poetry. Questions of date and literary history have been fully dealt with in the Introductions, but the larger space has been devoted to the interpretative rather than the matter-of-fact order of scholarship. Aesthetic judgments are never final, but the Editors have attempted to suggest points of view from which the analysis of dramatic motive and dramatic character may be profitably undertaken. In the Notes likewise, while it is hoped that all unfamiliar expressions and allusions have been adequately explained, yet it has been thought even more important to consider the dramatic value of each scene, and the part which it plays in relation to the whole. These general principles are common to the whole series; in detail each Editor is alone responsible for the play or plays that have been intrusted to him.

Every volume of the series has been provided with a Glossary, an Essay upon Metre, and an Index; and Appendices have been added upon points of special interest, which could not conveniently be treated in the Introduction or the Notes. The text is based by the several Editors on that of the Globe edition: the only omissions made are those that are unavoidable in an edition likely to be used by young students.

By the systematic arrangement of the introductory matter, and by close attention to typographical details, every effort has been made to provide an edition that will prove convenient in use.

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