LONDON:

:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1869.

Ellio

CONTENTS

Page

PROLEGOMENA.

.

Shakespeare's Personal History

1

Shakespeare's Works .

3

The Sources for the Text of Shakespeare's Plays 9

The Shakespearian Editors and Commentators 25

The Modern Shakespearian Texts

27

The Mechanism of English Verse, and the Prosody

of the Plays of Shakespeare

30

Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar

44

PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY, WITH TEXT OF THE

PLAY

61

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