HISTORICAL

SHAKSPEARIAN READER:

COMPRISING

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THE “HISTORIES," OR, “CHRONICLE PLAYS”

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OF

SHAKSPEARE;

CAREFULLY EXPURGATED AND REVISED, WITII

INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY NOTES

EXPRESSLY ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND THE

FAMILY READING CIRCLL.

BY

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JOHN W. S. HOWS,
AUTHOR OF TUE "SIIAKSPEARIAX PEADER," ETC., ETO.

Shakspeare's English llistories are the text book of a large povion
of English History to all of English blood, and rightly so, because they were than
compensate for their slight inaccuracies of detail by the vividness and forced with
which they give the very forn and pressure of those times."

G. C. VERPLANCK.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

549 & 551 BROADWAY.

1875,

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

JOIN W. S. HOWS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

District of New York,