Footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference.

In Volume 1 of this work, the editor provided a section of ‘Addendum and Corrigiendum’, with errata of the following volumes, include this one. The errata for Volume 2 have been copied from that volume for straightfoward reference, and are included in the transcribers’s endnotes.

Stage directions, except for entrances, can be:

in-line

in the middle of a line and delimited with ‘[ ]’,

end of line

right-justified on the same line where there is room, with only the leading ‘[’,

next line

right-justified on the following line, where there is insufficent room, with a hanging indent.

The same convention is followed here. Since this version is somewhat wider than the original, most directions are on the same line as the speech.

Entrances were centered and separated slightly from lines above and below. This is rendered here as a full blank line.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.