TRAGEDY OF

KING RICHARD THE THIRD.

EDITED, WITH NOTES,

BY

WILLIAM J. ROLFE, LITT. D.

FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

ENGLISH CLASSICS.

EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, LITT. D.
Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, 56 cents per volume.

GOLDSMITH'S SELECT POEMS.
GRAY'S SELECT POEMS.

MINOR POEMS OF JOHN MILTON.

Richard III.
Henry VIII.
King Lear.

The Taming of the Shrew.
All's Well that Ends Well.
Coriolanus.

The Comedy of Errors.
Cymbeline.

Antony and Cleopatra.

Measure for Measure.

Merry Wives of Windsor.

Love's Labour's Lost.

Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Timon of Athens.

Troilus and Cressida.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, etc.
Sonnets.

Titus Andronicus.

BROWNING'S SELECT POEMS.

BROWNING'S SELECT DRAMAS.

MACAULAY'S LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME.
WORDSWORTH'S SELECT POEMS.

LAMBS' TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies.
LAMBS' TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES.
EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, LITT. D.
Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo, 50 cents per volume.

Copyright, 1884 and 1898, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

King Richard III.

W. P. 2

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION TO KING RICHARD THE THIRD..

I. THE HISTORY OF THE Play.......

II. THE SOURCES OF THE PLOT.....

III. CRITICAL COMMENTS ON THE PLAY..

KING RICHARD THE THIRD..........

ACT I......

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