TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR EDITED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILO MELVYN BUCK, JR. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, WILLIAM MCKINLEY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO. LTD. 1919 All rights reserved PREFACE THE text of this edition of King Lear is in general the one followed by the editor of the Temple Shakespeare. In places, however, where there is a choice between the Quarto and the Folio readings, the editor has followed the Folio, which he feels gives Shakespeare's revision of the earlier text. All the more important variant readings are recorded in the notes. It would be impossible for an editor of a school text to lay claim to any great originality. There are, however, a few notes in which he ventures an opinion which, as far as he knows, is new. The editor wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to several editions of the play to which he has constantly referred, especially to Dr. Furness's Variorum Edition, Craig's King Lear, and Verity's King Lear. The other books consulted would make too long a list for insertion here. ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, |