COMEDY OF THE TEMPES T. EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A.M., FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ENGLISH CLASSICS. EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, A.M. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, 56 cents per volume; Paper, 40 cents per volume. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price. ༣༽ Copyright, 1871, by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright, 1884, by HARPER & BROTHERS. The Tempest occupies the first nineteen pages of the Folio of 1623, and no earlier edition of the play has been discovered. It is not unlikely, as White has suggested, that "it was made the leading play, as being one of the latest and most admired works of its author." Mr. Joseph Hunter* has attempted to show that it was written as early as 1596; but the commentators generally agree that the date cannot be put earlier than 1603, and that it was probably as late as 1611. *New Illustrations of Shakespeare (1845), vol. i. pp. 122-157. |