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PREFACE
These lectures are based on a selection from materials used
in teaching at Liverpool, Glasgow, and Oxford; and I have
for the most part preserved the lecture form. The point of
view taken in them is explained in the Introduction. I should,
of course, wish them to be read in their order, and a knowl-
edge of the first two is assumed in the remainder; but readers
who may prefer to enter at once on the discussion of the
several plays can do so by beginning at page 70.
Any one who writes on Shakespeare must owe much to his
predecessors. Where I was conscious of a particular obliga-
tion, I have acknowledged it; but most of my reading of
Shakespearean criticism was done many years ago, and I can
only hope that I have not often reproduced as my own what
belongs to another.
Many of the Notes will be of interest only to scholars, who
may find, I hope, something new in them.
I have quoted, as a rule, from the Globe edition, and have
referred always to its numeration of acts, scenes, and lines.
November; 1904.