TRANSCRIBER'S COMMENTS ON THE PREPARATION OF THIS E-TEXT:

SQUARE BRACKETS:

The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that a closing bracket "]" has been added to the stage directions.

FOOTNOTES:

For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play.

Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given a unique identity in the form [X].

CHANGES TO THE TEXT:

Character names have been expanded. For Example, SIR BENJAMIN was SIR BEN.