Romeo and Juliet, 1597

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.