William Shakespeare 
Romeo and Juliet [PDF ebook] 
The First Quarto, 1597

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.