Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734)

by Mr. Theobald

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The Augustan Reprint Society
LEWIS THEOBALD
Preface to The Works of Shakespeare
(1734)
With an Introduction by
Hugh G. Dick
Publication Number 1̶9̶ 20
(Extra Series, No. 2)
Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1949

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[Editor’s Introduction]
[Preface to Shakespeare]
[Digression: Greek]
[ARS Publications]

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GENERAL EDITORS
H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITORS
W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
John Loftis, University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington
Benjamin Boyce, University of Nebraska
Louis I. Bredvold, University of Michigan
Cleanth Brooks, Yale University
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Ernest Mossner, University of Texas
James Sutherland, Queen Mary College, London

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INTRODUCTION