Excerpt from The Tragedy of King Richard the Third: Containing His Treacherous Plots Against His Brother Clarence; The Pittieful Murther of His Innocent Nephews; His Tyrannical Usurpation; With the Whole Course of His Detested Life, and Most Deserved Death The text Of this edition Of King Rickard tile T fiz'm' is based on a collation of the First and Second Quartos, the seventeenth century Folios, the Globe edition, the Cam bridge (w. A. Wright) edition Of 1891, and that Of Delius As compared with the text of the earlier editions of Hudson's Shakespeare, it is conservative. Exclusive Of changes in spelling, punctuation, and stage directions, very few emendations by eighteenth century and nineteenth cen tury editors have been adopted; and these, with the more important variations from the First Folio, are indicated in the textual notes. These notes are printed immediately below the text, so that a reader or student may see at a glance the evidence in the case of a disputed reading, and have some definite understanding of the reasons for those differences in the text of Shakespeare which frequently sur prise and very Often annoy. Such an arrangement should be of special help in the case of plays so universally read and frequently acted, as actors and interpreters seldom agree in adhering to one text. A consideration Of the more poetical, or the more dramatically effective, of two variant readings will Often lead to rich results in awakening a Spirit of dis criminating interpretation and in developing true creative criticism. In no sense is this a textual:1 variorum edition. The variants given are only those of importance and high authority.

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