The extent to which Shakspere deviates from
his source varies in every play, but the deviations
themselves are always significant and worthy of
the closest study. So far as space permitted, an
attempt has been made to indicate the main
points of difference between the versions of Riche
and Shakspere, and the teacher will find it
extremely profitable make a more elaborate
comparison the basis of his aesthetic interpreta-
tion. Such a method is comparatively easy to
use, and at the same time affords scope for the
most penetrating analysis and the most delicate
appreciation that the classroom permits.

The text of Apolonius and Silla is accessible
in the reprint edited by J. Payne Collier for the
Shakspere Society in 1846, in Furness Vario-
rum edition of Twelfth Night, and in Hazlitt
Shakespeare's Library, volume I.

For further details on the life and works of
Shakspere, the following books may be referred
to: Dowden Shakspere Primer and Shakspere,
His Mind and Art; Sidney Lee Life of William
Shakespeare; William Shakespeare, by Barrett Wendell
; Shakspere and his Predecessors, by
F. S. Boas. The most exhaustive account of the
English Drama is A. W. Ward History of Eng-
lish Dramatic Literature. Both this work and
that of Sidney Lee are rich in bibliographical
information. For questions of language and
grammar see A. Schmidt Shakespeare Lexicon;

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