Excerpt from King Henry the Fifth

This edition of Shakespeare"s King Henry the Fifth is prepared for use in secondary schools prior to the fourth year. For this reason expurgated passages and variant readings are not recorded. Except for slight changes, the text is that of the Cambridge edition. The punctuation, however, has been modernized, especially to avoid an obsolete use of the colon; and thee has been uniformly printed in the -est and -ed endings in all prose passages, but in verse it has been omitted from these syllables when they are unpronounced.

The Introduction aims to present only such matter as should be given to the class before they read the play. Obviously much that is there briefly phrased can be expanded advantageously by the teacher; but all biographical matter and literary criticism are purposely omitted. If the teacher wishes to use them, the best way is to send the pupils to complete biographies and volumes of criticism after the play has been studied in class, unless a little biographical matter be added orally. The life of a writer, however, and critical estimates of his work lose all life and interest when garbled as they must be for condensation into the space available in an Introduction.

The Notes are intended to be used in connection with the careful rereading of the play after it has been read through once in class merely for the story. The first reading will gain in interest if the parts are assigned to the pupils, and it may well be done in four or five recitation periods at most.

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