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The text of this edition of King Lear is based upon a collation of the First and the Second Quartos, the seventeenth century Folios, the Globe edition, the Cambridge edition 1891, and that of Delius (1882). As compared with the text of the earlier editions of Hudson’s Shakespeare, it is conservative. Exclusive of changes in spelling, punctuation, and stage directions, very few emendations by eighteenth and nineteenth century editors have been adopted, and these, with every variation from the First Folio, are indicated in the textual notes. These notes are printed immediately below the text, so that a reader or student may see at a glance the evidence in the case of a disputed reading, and have some definite understanding of the reasons for thise differences in the text of Shakespeare which frequently surprise and very often annoy