AUDISNE HAEC AMPHIARAE, SUB TERRAM ABDITE?

1[Composed at Este, September, October, 1818 (Act 1); at Rome,

2March-April 6, 1819 (Acts 2, 3); at Florence, close of 1819 (Act 4).

3Published by C. and J. Ollier, London, summer of 1820. Sources of the

4text are (1) edition of 1820; (2) text in “Poetical Works”, 1839,

5prepared with the aid of a list of errata in (1) written out by

6Shelley; (3) a fair draft in Shelley’s autograph, now in the Bodleian.

7This has been carefully collated by Mr. C.D. Locock, who prints the

8result in his “Examination of the Shelley Manuscripts in the Bodleian

9Library”, Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1903. Our text is that of 1820,

10modified by edition 1839, and by the Bodleian fair copy. In the

11following notes B = the Bodleian manuscript; 1820 = the editio

12princeps, printed by Marchant for C. and J. Ollier, London; and 1839 =

13the text as edited by Mrs. Shelley in the “Poetical Works”, 1st and

142nd editions, 1839. The reader should consult the notes on the Play at

15the end of the volume.]