_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 V_. Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1864. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. CONTENTS. THE Preface. . . .  vii THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI. . . .  3 Notes to The First Part of King Henry VI. . . .  103 THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI. . . . 109 Notes to The Second Part of King Henry VI. . . .  223 THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. . . . 229 Notes to The Third Part of King Henry VI. . . .  339 THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION, &c. . . .  343 Notes to The First Part of the Contention, &c. . . .  405 THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OF RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE, AND THE GOOD KING HENRY THE SIXT. . . .  407 Notes to The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke. . . .  469 KING RICHARD III. . . .  473 Notes to King Richard III. . . .  637 PREFACE. _The First Part of King Henry the Sixth_ was printed for the first time, so far as we know, in the Folio of 1623. The same edition contained also for the first time in their present form, ‘The second Part of King Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey,’ and ‘The third Part of King Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke.’ The play upon which the Second part of Henry the Sixth was founded was first printed in quarto (Q1), in 1594, with the following title: The | First part of the Con- tention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke | and Lancaster, with the death of the good | Duke Humphrey: | And the banishment and death of the Duke of | _Suffolke_, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall | of _Winchester_, with the notable Rebellion | of _Iacke Cade:_ | _And the Duke of Yorkes first claime vnto the_ | _Crowne_. | LONDON | Printed by Thomas Creed, for Thomas Millington, | and are to be sold at his shop vnder Saint Peters | Church in Cornwall. | 1594. |