Penny Dreadful Cover — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a scholarly or editorial note rather than a penny dreadful narrative itself. The handwritten text discusses editions of a work by Warner Albinus (or similar) from 1596, mentions that it was unknown to Stevens and Ames or Herbert, references another edition from 1597, and directs the reader to Chapter 14, page 65, for information about "King Lear" and his three daughters—noting that Shakespeare "probably" used this source when writing his play. The text concludes by stating that "Shakespeare's Lear is supposed to have been written in 1605." The page appears to be scholarly annotation rather than serialized fiction.