[Transcriber's Note: This e-text contains the introductory material (44 pages) and the publisher's advertising (16 pages) from Volume I of the nine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The five plays from this volume, with their notes, will each be produced as a free-standing e-text. Numerals written as subscripts are shown inline as F1, F2, Q1.... Except for footnotes and illustrations, all brackets are in the original. In the publisher's advertising, the page breaks have been retained and are shown as a double row of asterisks.] _THE WORKS_ of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. [Illustration (Publisher's Device)] THE WORKS of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Edited by WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge; and JOHN GLOVER, M.A. Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge. _VOLUME I._ Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1863. Cambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay, M.A. at the University Press. To His Grace THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G. Chancellor Of The University Of Cambridge. THIS EDITION of _THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE_ Is Respectfully Dedicated by THE EDITORS. CONTENTS. [The e-text numbers for the plays from this edition are shown in brackets.] PAGE The Preface ix THE TEMPEST [23042] 3 Notes to the Tempest 77 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA [23043] 83 Notes to the Two Gentlemen of Verona 157 Introduction to the Merry Wives of Windsor 163 THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR [23044] 165 Notes to the Merry Wives of Windsor 253 A Pleasant Conceited Comedy of Syr John Falstaffe, &c. 257 MEASURE FOR MEASURE [23045] 295 Notes to Measure for Measure 391 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS [23046] 399 Notes to the Comedy of Errors 462 PREFACE. The main rules which we proposed to ourselves in undertaking this Edition are as follows: 1. To base the text on a thorough collation of the four Folios and of all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, and of subsequent editions and commentaries. 2. To give all the results of this collation in notes at the foot of the page, and to add to these conjectural emendations collected and suggested by ourselves, or furnished to us by our correspondents, so as to give the reader in a compact form a complete view of the existing materials out of which the text has been constructed, or may be emended. 3. In all plays of which there is a Quarto edition differing from the received text to such a degree that the variations cannot be shown in foot-notes, to print the text of the Quarto _literatim_ in a smaller type after the received text.