Designed to make Shakespeare's classic plays avail-
able to the general reader, each edition a re-
liable text with modernized spelling and punctuation,
scene-by-scene plot summaries, and explanatory
notes clarifying obscure and obsolete expressions.
An interpretive essay and accounts of Shakespeare's
life and theater form an instructive preface to each
play.

Louis B. Wright, General Editor, was the Director
of the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1948 until
his retirement in 1968. He is the author of Middle-
Class Culture in Elizabethan England, Religion and
Empire, Shakespeare for Everyman, and many other
books and essays on the history and literature of the
Tudor and Stuart periods.

Virginia Lamar, Assistant Editor, served as research
assistant to the Director and Executive Secretary of
the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1946 until her
death in 1968. She is the author of English Dress in
the Age of Shakespeare and Travel and Roads in
England, and coeditor of William Strachey Historie
of Travell into Virginia Britania.

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