title: Romeo and Juliet
variant_description: The title page exists in two states: Greg 143e(*) does not list an author, while Greg 143e(†) names Shakespeare as author. See also Greg 
title_page_title: THE MOST EXCELLENT And Lamentable Tragedie, of R<small>OMEO</small> and I<small>VLIET</small>. ... <i>Newly Corrected, augmented, and amended.</i> 
title_page_author: Written by <i>W. Shake-speare</i>. 
title_page_performance: As it hath beene sundrie times publikely Acted, by the K<small>INGS</small> Maiesties Seruants at the G<small>LOBE</small>.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed  for <i>Iohn Smethwicke</i>, and are to bee  sold at his Shop in Saint <i>Dunstones</i> Church-yard, in Fleetestreete vnder the Dyall.
stationer_entries_in_register: Jan 22, 1607: Transferred from Cuthbert Burby to Nicholas Ling: "Romeo & Iuliett."<br />Nov 19, 1607: Transferred from Nicholas Ling to John Smethwick: "Romeo and Iulett".<br />Aug 24, 1642: Transferred from John Smethwick decd. to Francis Smethwick: "salvo iure cuiuscunq<i>ue</i> ... Romeo & Iuliett."<br />Sep 14, 1642: Transferred from Francis Smethwick to Miles Flesher: "Romeo & Iuliett".
stationer_additional_notes: <i>STC</i> dates this book to 1622, but R. Carter Hailey, in "The Dating Game: New Evidence for the Dates of Q4 <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> and Q4 <i>Hamlet</i>," <i>Shakespeare Quarterly</i> 58 (2007): 367-87, has recently argued this quarto should be dated to 1623. <i>William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion</i> dates the first production to 1595; <i>Annals</i> dates it to 1596 [1594-1596].
transcript_modern_spelling: The most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet as it hath been sundry times publicly acted by the King's majesty's servants at the Globe written by W. Shakespeare newly corrected augmented and amended London printed for John Smethwick and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street under the dial