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with this incident how does his wearing the chain Angelo has given him, further tangle the plot?

47. What does the Courtesan conclude as to the state of mind of Antipholus? What does she decide to do about it?

48. What mistaken encounter is described in scene iv? What comes of it?

49. Describe the diagnosis Dr. Pinch makes of the condition of Antipholus. What does it satirize?

50. What is the conclusion of all with regard to the condition of Antipholus of Ephesus and his Dromio? What is done with them accordingly?

51. What does the Courtesan tell of her ring?

52. What surprise immediately follows for the three women, as they stand conversing?

53. What does Antipholus of Syracuse decide he wishes to do as quickly as possible at the ending of this act?

ACT V

54. What next contretemps awaits Antipholus of Syracuse in scene i? What is its outcome?

55. How does Adriana prevent the fight between Antipholus of Syracuse and the Second Merchant?

56. What refuge do Antipholus of Syracuse and his Dromio take?

57. What does the Abbess do?

58. Is the Abbess's rebuke of Adriana justified? How does Adriana receive it? What is the dramatic use of the Abbess's rebuke?

59. Describe the final resolution of the play. Contrast its elements with the usual ones of farce.

60. Characterize the management of the resolution, as to disposition of groupings and interaction of motives. leading to it. Is it balanced, smooth?-are the threads well and convincingly collected? Analyze in detail.

VI-7

THE TRAGEDY OF

KING RICHARD II

All the unsigned footnotes in this volume are by the writer of the article to which they are appended. The interpretation of the initials signed to the others is: I. G.

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= Israel Gollancz, M.A.; H. N. H. Henry Norman Hudson, A.M.; C. H. H. C. H. Herford, Litt.D.

PREFACE

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

THE EARLY EDITIONS

Richard II was first published, in quarto, in 1597, in which year it was entered on the Register of the Stationers' Company. The title-page of the First Quarto was as follows:

"The Tragedie of King Richard the Second, As it hath been publikely acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants, London. Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church Yard at the Signe of the Angel. 1597."

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A Second Quarto, with Shakespeare's name on the titlepage, was published in 1597.

In the year 1608 a third Quarto appeared, “with new additions of the Parliament Sceane, and the deposing of King Richard, as it hath been lately acted by the Kinges Majesties servantes, at the Globe." The Fourth Quarto, a mere reprint of this, appeared in 1615.

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The text of the play in the 1623 Folio was evidently derived from the Fourth Quarto, "corrected with some care, and prepared for stage representation. In the 'new additions of the Parliament Sceane,' it would appear that the defective text of the Quarto had been corrected from the author's MS. For this part, therefore, the First Folio is our highest authority; for all the rest of the play the First Quarto affords the best text" (Cambridge Editors).

A Fifth Quarto was published in 1634, based for the 1 Cp. Facsimile editions of this and other Quartos by Messrs. Griggs and Prætorius.

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