Shakspeareana Genealogica, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Shakspeareana Genealogica, Vol. 1: Identification of the Dramatis Personæ in Shakespeare's Historical Plays: From K. John to K. Henry VIII In perusing this Attempt to identify the dramatis personoe of Shakspeare's Histories, it should be borne in mind by the Reader that the plan of placing a list of the characters at the head of each play is of much later date than the time of the Great Dramatist, who is therefore only responsible for such mistakes in identity as actually occur in the body of the text, and into which he was led by the earlier plays, or the chronicles to which he had access. According to Steevens, Rowe was the first Editor who formed an Index, as it were, of the characters scattered through the different scenes, and placed them at the beginning of the respective plays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.