Excerpt from The Reader's Shakespeare, Vol. 1 of 3: His Dramatic Works Condensed, Connected, and Emphasized for School, College, Parlour, and Platform; Historical Plays, English and Roman
This first Volume consists exclusively of all the Historical Plays, English and Roman the second Volume will contain all the Tragedies and Romantic Plays; and the third Volume all the Comedies.
Each Play is preceded by a brief Narrative, historical and literary the principal Scenes, Incidents and Characters, not only of the main but of the secondary plots, are connected b elucidatory remarks the Text has been carefully condensed, col ated, and preserved making allowance for the prime necessities of expurgation and com pression.
Important and emphatic words are specially marked by a small dia critic line placed before the word, to facilitate, with the aid of im proved punctuation, an easy comprehension and expressive delivery of the text. Explanatory notes are frequently inserted.
Each play is so condensed that it may be read aloud in about an hour, or an hour and a half.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
