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INTRODUCTION AIMS OF THE EDITION THE first aim of this edition has been to give a sound text of the play . The text is conservative , being based upon that of the first Quarto . Secondly , in the critical apparatus is given a selection ...
INTRODUCTION AIMS OF THE EDITION THE first aim of this edition has been to give a sound text of the play . The text is conservative , being based upon that of the first Quarto . Secondly , in the critical apparatus is given a selection ...
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The authoritative text of the play is Q I. Every subsequent Quarto seems to have been printed from its immediate predecessor , errors accumulating with each new edition . F , in the case of this play , has no independent authority .
The authoritative text of the play is Q I. Every subsequent Quarto seems to have been printed from its immediate predecessor , errors accumulating with each new edition . F , in the case of this play , has no independent authority .
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( iii ) Two passages in the play suggest reminiscence of speeches in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour , which was produced in 1598. The obligation , however , may have been Jonson's . ( iv ) ( a ) The composition of the play has ...
( iii ) Two passages in the play suggest reminiscence of speeches in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour , which was produced in 1598. The obligation , however , may have been Jonson's . ( iv ) ( a ) The composition of the play has ...
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127-141 of this play :Did you never see The Play where the fat Knight , hight Old - castle , Did tell you truly what his honor was ? And Randolph in Hey for Honesty , iv . i . , confusing Falstaff with his rich - faced lieutenant ...
127-141 of this play :Did you never see The Play where the fat Knight , hight Old - castle , Did tell you truly what his honor was ? And Randolph in Hey for Honesty , iv . i . , confusing Falstaff with his rich - faced lieutenant ...
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Taking it then as established that “ Oldcastle " was the name in the play as first acted , and considering how long it persisted in the memories of playgoers , we may assume that some time , at least many months , had elapsed between ...
Taking it then as established that “ Oldcastle " was the name in the play as first acted , and considering how long it persisted in the memories of playgoers , we may assume that some time , at least many months , had elapsed between ...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespeare ... The Eversley edition Volume 9 of The Works of Shakespeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Charles Harold Herford |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2008 |
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