Brooke's 'Romeus and Juliet,'
Subtitle: being the original of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'
By: newly ed. by J.J. Munro.
Contributors: Munro, John James, ed.; Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.
Series: The Shakespeare library. [II. The Shakespeare classics.; v. 3]
Publisher: Duffield and Company; Chatto & Windus
Published: 1908
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Romeo (Fictitious character) -- Poetry; Juliet (Fictitious character) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: Added half-title: Portrait of Shakespeare with the legend "The Shakespeare classics" within ornamental border.
Printed in Great Britain.
A modernized edition based upon that by P.A. Daniel, issued by the New Shakespeare Society in 1875. The t.-p. of the original edition, London, 1562, is reproduced in photogravure: The tragicall historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Dr. Br. In ædibus Richardi Tottelli.
Appendix I (p. [131]-145): Table of correspondence between Brooke's poem and Shakespeare's play.
Appendix II (p. [147]-163): ... Brooke's use of Boaistuau and Chaucer.
Appendix III (p. [165]-167): Brooke's death.