Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet: The First Quarto, 1597, a Facsimile (From the British Museum Copv, C 34, K 55) We may assume then that Q1 does not present us with an earlier and independent version of the play as we find it in Q2, and follow ing Mr Daniel and most modern critics, I shall have to show that the play in both editions is substantially the same, and that the first is only a very imperfect version of the second. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.