Romeo and Juliet [Electronic resource] Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Wells, Stanley W., 1930- creation of machine-readable version The Oxford Shakespeare Text data (1 file : ca. 164 kilobytes) [Depositor details removed] Oxford Text Archive Oxford
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 Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from electronic text Publication based on this text: The complete works / William Shakespeare ; general editors, Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ; editors Stanley Wells ... [et al.] ; with introductions by Stanley Wells. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986. -- (Oxford Shakespeare). -- ISBN 0-19-812926-2. Publication based on this text: The complete works / William Shakespeare ; general editors, Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ; editors, Stanley Wells ... [et al.] ; with introductions by Stanley Wells ; and an essay on Shakespeare's spelling and punctuation by Vivian Salmon. -- Original-spelling ed. / Stanley Wells ... [et al.]. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986. -- (Oxford Shakespeare). -- ISBN 0-19-812919-X. Another publication of interest: William Shakespeare : a textual companion / by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and William Montgomery. -- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1987. -- Partial contents: Pp. 69-109. The canon and chronology of Shakespeare's plays -- pp. 80-89. Function words. -- ISBN 0-19-812914-9. Transcribed from: The most excellent and lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet : newly corrected, augmented, and amended : as it hath bene sundry times publiquely acted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. -- London : Printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his shop neare the Exchange, 1599.

The Oxford Shakespeare Transcripts are exact reproductions in computer-readable form of bibliographically significant early printed texts of Shakespeare. The texts were originally prepared by Trevor Howard-Hill for use in his single colume concordances to Shakespeare (OUP, 1969f). They have since been reformatted to modern standards and carefully proofread by staff of Oxford University Press' Shakespeare Department for use in the new "Old Spelling" Oxford Shakespeare, under the general editorship of Dr Stanley Wells

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 Oxford Text Archive Subject Headings Library of Congress Subject Headings English Plays -- England -- 16th century Tragedies -- England -- 16th century 2001-01-23Webb, AntonHeader changed in accordance with ISBD(ER) guidelines and expanded. Validated in the TEI Lite DTD using XMetal 2.0 14 Jan 1998Burnard, LouHeader auto-generated from TOMES
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