Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. ABBREVIATIONS. Abbott.?Shakespearian Grammar, by E. A. Abbott, 1870. Dowden.?Romeo and Juliet, edited by Edward Dowden, 1900. Deighton.-?Romeo and Juliet, edited by K. Deigbton, 1893. Law.?Romeo and Juliet, edited by R. Law, in The Arden Shakespeare, Boston, 1913. N. E. D.?Murray's New English Dictionary. Schmidt.?Shakespeare-Lexicon, by A. Schmidt, 1880. Strunk.?Romeo and Juliet, edited by W. Strunk, in Riverside Literature Series, Boston, 1911. Fl?First Folio edition of Shakspere's Plays, 1623. Ff.?All the Folios. Qi.?First Quarto edition of Romeo and Juliet, 1597. Q.? Second Quarto. Qq.?All the Quartos. PROLOGUE Prol. 3. Mutiny. Discord, strife. Prol. 4. Where. In which. Civil. Of fellow citizens; perhaps with a play on the ordinary sense. Prol. 6. Star-cross'd. Thwarted by the influence of malignant planets?implying the responsibility of blind Fate, rather than the guilt of hero and heroine, for the catastrophe of the tragedy. Prol. 7. Misadventur'd. Unfortunate, caused by evil chance. Adjective, not participle; cf. horned, icev-foolcd, etc. Prol. 8. Doth. Singular verb with plural subject. See Introd., p. 45. Prol. 9. Passage. Course. Prol. 11. But. Except. Prol. 12. Two hours'. Indicating the approximate length of performance of an Elizabethan play. Cf. Henry VIII.. prol. 13. Prol. 14. We, the actors, will try to repair what is deficient in the play. ACT I 1.1. Shakspere's opening scenes are often notable, and none is more so than this. It gives the necessary information about the feud, not in expository speeches, but in the spirited action of a real brawl between the houses; it introduces characters of importance; it forebodes the tragic outcome of the play in the hatred of the partisans. Note the suc...