The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . \_liOiKUlUI J INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. This comedy was first printed in tlie foliocollection of 1623. In the original copy theplay is divided into acts, but not into are several examples of corruption inthe text; but, upon the whole, it is very ac-curately printed, both with regard to themetrical arrangement and to punctuation. In Dr. Farmers Essay on the Learning ofShakspeare, we find this passage :— Thestory of AH s Well that Ends Well, or, asI suppose it to have been sometimes called, Loves Labour Wonne (and here
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . \_liOiKUlUI J INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. This comedy was first printed in tlie foliocollection of 1623. In the original copy theplay is divided into acts, but not into are several examples of corruption inthe text; but, upon the whole, it is very ac-curately printed, both with regard to themetrical arrangement and to punctuation. In Dr. Farmers Essay on the Learning ofShakspeare, we find this passage :— Thestory of AH s Well that Ends Well, or, asI suppose it to have been sometimes called, Loves Labour Wonne (and here Farmerinserts a reference to Meres Wits Trea-sury, where Loves Labour Wonne is men-tioned amongst plays by Shakspere), isoriginally indeed the property of Boccace,but it came immediately to Shakspeare fromPainters Giletta of Narbon. Mr. Hun-ter, in his Disquisition on the Tempest,repudiates the notion that Loves LabourWon and All s Well that Ends Well areidentical. Mr. Hunter states that a passingremark of Dr. Farmer, in the Essay on theLearning of Shakspeare,
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