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Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, being the original of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Title:
Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, being the original of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Author:
Brooke, Arthur, -1563.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Duffield and company ; London : Chatto & Windus, 1908.
Physical Description:
lxviii, 167 pages : frontispiece (facsimile) ; 18 x 15 cm.
General Note:
Added half-title; Portrait of Shakespeare with the legend "The Shakespeare classics" within ornamental border.

Printed in Great Britain.

A modernized edition based upon that by P. A. Daniel, issued by the New Shakespeare society in 1875. The t.-p. of the original edition, London, 1562, is reproduced in photogravure: The tragicall historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Dr. Br. In ædibus Richardi Tottelli.

Appendix I (p. [131]-145) : Table of correspondence between Brooke's poem and Shakespeare's play.

Appendix II (p. [147]-163) : ... Brooke's use of Boaistuau and Chaucer.

Appendix III (p. [165]-167) : Brooke's death.
Language:
English
Format :
Book