William Shakespeare 
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This edition of Romeo and first published in 1879, is now thoroughly revised on the same general plan as its predecessors in the new series. While I have omitted most of the notes on textual variations, I have retained a sufficient number to illus trate the curious and significant differences between the first and second quartos. Among the many new notes are some calling attention to portions of the early draft of the play – some of them very bad – which Shakespeare left unchanged when he revised it.