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The Pitt Press Shakespeare for Schools

Edited by A. W. VERITY, M.A., with Introduction,
Notes, Glossary and Index to each volume.

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THE TEMPEST. FOURTH EDITION. Price Is. 6d. "Probably the most complete school edition that has ever been issued."-Educational Review.

"It would seem that the ideal school edition of Shakespeare has at last been developed. Mr Verity's edition is eminently practical, clear, business-like."-University Correspondent.

JULIUS CAESAR. FIFTH EDITION. Price Is. 6d.

"Mr Verity presents us with another of his admirable school editions of Shakespeare's Plays. We have already had A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, both praised highly in these columns; now we have Julius Cæsar, and we can only say that it is as good and deserves as much praise as its predecessors. As we said of them we may say of this book, that in both notes and introduction Mr Verity displays sound scholarship and learning, while he never forgets that he is writing for boys."—Guardian.

"A scholarly and, in many respects, an excellent edition."-Journal of Education.

"One of the very best editions of any play of the great dramatist which has ever fallen into our hands."-Irish Teachers' Journal.

TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL. FIFTH EDITION. Price Is. 6d.

"Mr Verity has already won a distinguished name amongst those who attempt to edit English literature as literature and not as philological material. The present volume will certainly add to his reputation. It is a model of how a play of Shakespeare should be prepared so as to attract and not to repel young students....The introduction contains, besides some admirable literary criticism, a careful account of the sources of the play and an analysis of the plot.”— Athenæum.

"This is the best school edition of the play that has come under our notice."―Journal of Education.

THE

MERCHANT OF VENICE.
THIRD EDITION.

Price Is. 6d.

"A perfect schoolboy's edition."-School Guardian.

"The notes are the most successful Mr Verity has ever given us."— Guardian.

"Mr Verity has already won golden opinions from all sorts of teachers for his editions of English classics for Schools, and his editions of King Lear and The Merchant of Venice will certainly tend tc confirm his reputation."— Journal of Education.

A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM.

FIFTH EDITION.

Price Is. 6d.

"For schoolboys of fourteen and upwards this edition is not to be beaten, and we can congratulate Mr Verity and the University Press upon the publication of what will probably become the standard school edition of this play."-Guardian.

"An excellent piece of work."-Athenæum.

"All the essentials to an intelligent, interesting, and thorough study of the play will be found in this cheap and very presentable edition.” -Schoolmaster.

KING RICHARD II.

THIRD EDITION. Price Is. 6d.

"The 'Pitt Press Shakespeare' can stand in competition with any of the numerous editions of the sort. This instance of it does credit to Mr Verity, who is an excellent editor."—Athenæum.

"This is one of the best of Mr Verity's excellent little editions of plays of Shakespeare."-Academy.

"It would be difficult to praise this work (or this series) too highly."-School World.

KING LEAR. SECOND EDITION. Price Is. 6d. "A model edition."-Academy.

"The manual can scarcely fail to win the success which it deserves."-Speaker.

"A volume of the valuable Pitt Press Shakespeare. Mr Verity is an ideal editor for schools."-Bookman.

London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
AVE MARIA LANE.

Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.

Edited by A. W. VERITY, M.A.

"The level of excellence throughout his treatment of the books of the poem has been so well maintained that we do not hesitate to say that Mr Verity has produced the standard school or student's edition of Paradise Lost."-Educational Times.

"Mr Verity is an admirable editor of Milton."-Athenæum.

"The Cambridge Milton-an edition which, for the student, must remain for a considerable period the very best procurable."-Educational Review.

PARADISE LOST, Books I., II. With Introduction, Notes, Glossary, Appendix and Index. 25. Fourth Edition.

"Mr Verity's Introduction and Notes maintain the high standard of excellence conspicuous in the volumes of Milton already edited by him."-Saturday Review.

PARADISE LOST, Books III., IV. 25. Third Edition.

"We have praised before now Mr Verity's notes to Milton, and this instalment confirms our good opinion of his resources as a commentator."-Athenæum.

"The annotator maintains the high level of scholarship and judicious selection which have formerly, as now, led us to welcome his work with acclamation."-Guardian.

"It would be difficult to add anything to what we have already said of Mr Verity's editions of Milton. They show careful scholarship and admirable insight, and, what is more to the purpose in books intended for school use, they show excellent judgment in what is included and what is omitted both in the notes and in the introductions and appendices. . . . . Though this edition is so well suited for school use, adult scholars, also, will find much in it to interest and help them."-Journal of Education.

PARADISE LOST, Books V., VI. 25. Second Edition.

"Mr Verity's Pitt Press' editions of Milton have more than once been commended in these columns, and we are glad to have another volume of his studies, viz. Paradise Lost, Books V. and VI., upon our table.... We have the highest opinion of Mr Verity's scholarship and of his patience as an annotator. -Guardian.

"Mr Verity's excellent school edition of Milton . . . . . In most respects Mr Verity's remarks seem to us very careful and sound."Saturday Review.

"Of Mr Verity's editions of Milton's poetry we have already spoken more than once; and we can but repeat what we have said beforethat they are scholarly in the best sense, showing a knowledge which though full is never intemperate or diffuse; while it is rare to find him forgetting that he is dealing with a great work of art, the appreciation and enjoyment of which by the student it is his task to assist and extend.”—Journal of Education.

Edited by A. W. VERITY, M.A.

PARADISE LOST, Books VII., VIII. 25.

"A further instalment of Mr Verity's admirable work on Shakespeare and Milton is always welcome. This little volume seems fully to reach the high standard the editor has taught us to expect by his previous ones. We have never met with any edition of Milton in which the scholarly instruction necessary for the advanced student is so happily combined with that required by boys preparing for examination." Educational Times.

Careful

“The preceding books have been already noticed in these columns in most favourable terms, and it is difficult to add any more. scholarship and excellent judgment are everywhere apparent, and the appendices are especially valuable. Mr Verity has more than earned his title of the School Commentator of Milton."—Journal of Education. PARADISE LOST, Books IX., X. 25.

"It is distinct from all other editions, and distinguished above most by a feeling for Milton as literature."—Expository Times. PARADISE LOST, Books XI., XII. 25.

"Edited in masterly style."-Guardian.

SAMSON AGONISTES. With Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Indexes. 2s. 6d. Second Edition.

"An excellent and painstaking performance."-Athenæum. "The annotation seems to be careful and good.”—Spectator. "The edition is admirable in every way as a text-book."-Scotsman. LYCIDAS, L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO, ODE ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY. With Introduction, Notes and Indexes. 2s. 6d. Second Edition.

"Mr Verity's work is excellent, at once thorough and scholarly.”Athenæum.

SONNETS. With Introduction, Notes and Index.

Second Edition.

IS. 6d.

"A scholarly little volume, excellently fitted for the use of schools and of places of more adult study.”—Journal of Education.

ARCADES AND COMUS.

and Indexes. 35.

With Introduction, Notes

"Will secure an audience much larger than that for which it has, no doubt, been originally intended."-Spectator.

"This is an admirable edition."-Educational Times.

London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
AVE MARIA LANE.

Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.

The Pitt Press Shakespeare for Schools

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