AN INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST FOLIO, 1623
The first collected edition of Shakespeare's Plays
(From the copy in the New York Public Library)

SHAKESPEARE

BY

H. N. MACCRACKEN, PH.D.

F. E. PIERCE, PH.D.

AND

W. H. DURHAM, PH.D.

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OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN
THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF

YALE UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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