sure of their place. Indeed, the selection of all these twelve plays was so obvious as to demand little discrimination. The text of each play has been derived from a careful comparison of the earliest quartos with the latest and most scholarly editions; but the present editors have unhesitatingly omitted the so-called "critical apparatus" of variant readings and proposed emendations, for the same reason that they have shunned archaic spelling and pointing-as being entirely out of keeping with the design of the book. |