Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" was performed around 1595 and published in 1597 in a quarto claiming on its title page that it was printed by John Danter. The present volume is a photographic facsimile of this text. Evidence, discussed in the introduction, suggests that Danter printed only 40 per cent of the book and the remaining 60 per cent was printed by Edward Allde. The relationship of this First Quarto to the Second Quarto printed in 1599 is considered. The text reproduced here includes in the margins through-line numbering both for the Quarto and for the equivalent passages in the 1623 Folio, and a table is appended which matches the Quarto pages and line numbers with the act, scene, and line numbers of the Riverside Shakespeare.
- ISBN10 0197290396
- ISBN13 9780197290392
- Publish Date 16 November 2000
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition Facsimile of 1597 ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 107
- Language English