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Title: The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
Introduction and Publisher's Advertising

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: William George Clark
John Glover

Release Date: October 26, 2007 [EBook #23041]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Note:

This e-text contains the introductory material (44 pages) and the
publisher's advertising (16 pages) from Volume I of the nine-volume
1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The five plays from this
volume, with their notes, will each be produced as a free-standing
e-text.

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_THE WORKS_

of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

[Illustration (Publisher's Device)]

THE WORKS

of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Edited by

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator
in the University of Cambridge;

and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.
Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge.

_VOLUME I._

Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.

Cambridge:
Printed by C. J. Clay, M.A.
at the University Press.

To His Grace

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.
Chancellor Of The University Of Cambridge.

THIS EDITION
of
_THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE_

Is Respectfully Dedicated
by
THE EDITORS.

CONTENTS.

[The e-text numbers for the plays from this edition are shown
in brackets.]

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The Preface