Note 5 — OUR GREAT SHAKSPERE CRITIC
Reading edition
The plays edited by Dr. Furness are “Romeo and Juliet,” 1871; “Macbeth,” 1873; “Hamlet,” two volumes, 1877; “King Lear,” 1880; “Othello,” 1886; “The Merchant of Venice,” 1888; “As You Like It,” 1890; “The Tempest,” 1892; “Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” 1895; “The Winter’s Tale,” 1898; “Much Ado about Nothing,” 1899; “Twelfth Night,” 1901; “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” 1904; “Antony and Cleopatra,” 1909, and “Cymbeline,” completed and to appear. His son Horace Howard Furness, Jr., will complete his father’s task, and has already published “Richard III,” 1911, and revised “Macbeth.”