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PREFACE.

The aim in the volumes of this series is to present a satisfactory text of each play, modernized in spelling and punctuation, with as full an equipment of explanation and comment as is necessary for thorough intelligibility. The first section of the introduction is intended to give the student an idea of the place of the play in the history of the English Drama in general and of Shakspere's development in particular. In the present volume a considerable amount of space in the second section has been devoted to the source of the play and to Shakspere's adaptation of it to his dramatic purposes. The mere statement of the name of the book from which the plot is drawn is of little significance unless the student is enabled to form some conception of the omissions, additions, and modifications to which the earlier work was subjected by the dramatist. An attempt has therefore been made to give a concise summary of those features in Lodge's novel of Rosalynde a comparison of which with the corresponding parts of As You Like It helps to throw light on Shakspere's aim and methods. The task of aesthetic interpretation has been for the most part left to the teacher, and the significance of the changes just