_THE WORKS_ OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. [Illustration] 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 WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A. LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. _VOLUME IV_ ~Cambridge and London:~ MACMILLAN AND CO. 1864. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. CONTENTS. PAGE THE Preface vii KING JOHN 3 Notes to King John 97 KING RICHARD II. 109 Notes to King Richard II. 223 THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. 233 Notes to The First Part of King Henry IV. 351 THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV. 361 Notes to The Second Part of King Henry IV. 481 KING HENRY V. 491 Notes to King Henry V. 607 The Chronicle Historie of Henry the Fift &c. 615 PREFACE. I. SHAKESPEARE'S KING JOHN was printed for the first time in the Folio of 1623. The poet adopted most of the characters, the general plot, and occasional lines, or fragments of lines, from an earlier play, in two parts, published in 1591, with the following title-page: The | Troublesome Raigne | of _Iohn_ King of _England_, with the dis-|_couerie of King_ Richard Cordelions | Base sonne (vulgarly named, The Ba-|stard Fawconbridge): _also the_ | death of King _Iohn_ at _Swinstead_ | _Abbey._ | _As it was (sundry times) publikely acted by the_ | _Queenes Maiesties Players, in the ho-_|_nourable Citie of London._ | Imprinted at London for _Sampson Clarke_, | _and are to be solde at his shop, on the backe-_|side of the _Royall Exchange_. | 1591. | This play was reprinted for a different bookseller in 1611, with the words 'W. Sh.' added to the title; and a third edition in 1622, again issued by a different bookseller, has 'W. Shakespeare.'