Shakespeare's History Of King Henry The Eighth (1899) - hardcover

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: WITH NOTES BY WM. J. ROLFE, Litt.D. The Merchant of Venice. The Tempest. Julius Caesar. Hamlet. As You Like It. Henry the Fifth. Macbeth. Henry the Eighth. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. Richard the Second. Richard the Third. Much Ado About Nothing. Antony and Cleopatra. Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Twelfth Night. The Winter's Tale. King John. Henry IV. Part I. Henry IV. Part H. King Lear. The Taming of the Shrew. All's Well That Ends Well. Coriolauus. Comedy of Errors. Cymbeline. Merry Wives of Windsor. Measure for Measure. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Love's Labor 's Lost. Tin1on of Athens. Henry VI. Part I. Henry VI. Part II. Henry VI. Part III. Troilus and Cressida. Pericles, Prince of Tyre. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Poems. Sonnets. Titus Andronicns. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, 56 cents per vol.; Paper, 40 cents per vol. FRIENDLY EDITION, complete in 20 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $30 oo; Half Calf, $60 oo. (Sold only in Sets.) In the preparation of this edition of the English Classics it has been the aim to adapt them for school and home reading, in essentially the same way as Greek and Latin Classics are edited for educational purposes. The chief requisites are a pure text (expurgated, if necessary), and the notes needed for its thorough explanation and illustration. Each of Shakespeare's plays is complete in one volume, and is preceded by an Introduction containing the " History of the Play," the "Sources of the Plot," and " Critical Comments on the Play." From Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., LL.D., Editor of the "New Variorum Shakespeare." No one can examine these volumes and fail to be impressed with the conscientious accuracy and scholarly completeness w...