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Shakespeare on Stage
American Shakespeare Center, Return to the Forbidden Planet. To Dec. 1, 2013.
SIP Editors, Measure for Measure. To Aug. 4, 2013.
Original Shakespeare Company, Comedie of Errors. To Jun. 22, 2013.
SIP Editors, King Henry VIII. To Aug. 4, 2013.
Original Shakespeare Company, A Midsommer Night's Dreame (Midsummer Midsommer). To Jun. 21, 2013.
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Prefatory Materials (Folio 3, 1664)

Author: William Shakespeare
Not Peer Reviewed
To the Reader.
This Figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
Wherein the Graver had a strife
With Nature, to out-doe the Life:
O, could he but have drawn his Wit
As well in Brasse, as he has hit
His Face; the Print would then surpass
All, that was ever writ in Brasse.
But since he cannot, Reader, look
Not on his Picture, but his Book.
B.J.
MR. WILLIAM
SHAKESPEAR'S
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Published according to the true Original Copies.
The third Impression.
And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never
before Printed in Folio.
viz.
Pericles Prince of Tyre.
The London Prodigall.
The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell.
Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham.
The Puritan Widow.
A York-shire Tragedy.
The Tragedy of Locrine.
LONDON, Printed for P.C. 1664.