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THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
EDITED BY
WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THEUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;
AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A.
LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
VOLUME IV
Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1864.
CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| The Preface | vii |
| King John | 3 |
| Notes to King John | 97 |
| King Richard II. | 109 |
| Notes to King Richard II. | 223 |
| The First Part of King Henry IV. | 233 |
| Notes to The First Part of King Henry IV. | 351 |
| The Second Part of King Henry IV. | 361 |
| Notes to The Second Part of King Henry IV. | 481 |
| King Henry V. | 491 |
| Notes to King Henry V. | 607 |
| The Chronicle Historie of Henry the Fift &c. | 615 |
[Pg vii]
PREFACE.
I. Shakespeare's King John was printed for thefirst time in the Folio of 1623. The poet adopted mostof the characters, the general plot, and occasional lines,or fragments of lines, from an earlier play, in two parts,published in 1591, with the following title-page:
The | Troublesome Raigne | of Iohn King of England,