The Tragedie of CoriolanusThe First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted his plays performed, giving as much direction as possible to his actors. Freeman looks at what is known of the printing of that First Folio and analyzes the variations between the First Folio, later Folios, Quarto editions (where available) and modern editions of the plays. He examines the "corrections" made by editors over the centuries that have shaped the way we perceive Shakespeare today -- from the regularization of verse, to the changes from prose to verse (and vice versa) and the standardization of character prefixes. |
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Page viii
... Henry VI . ( Act IV , scs . ii . to viii . ) the same general character- istics are apparent , but the rabble here act more on their own impulses , with very few hints from their leader . Cade is pur- posely made weak and self - seeking ...
... Henry VI . ( Act IV , scs . ii . to viii . ) the same general character- istics are apparent , but the rabble here act more on their own impulses , with very few hints from their leader . Cade is pur- posely made weak and self - seeking ...
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... Henry VI . and Jul . Cæs . and Coriolanus are made ludicrous and foolish . But , after all , a love for crowds and a reverence for mob - orators are not so often found among dispassionate thinkers as to make Shakespeare's case strange ...
... Henry VI . and Jul . Cæs . and Coriolanus are made ludicrous and foolish . But , after all , a love for crowds and a reverence for mob - orators are not so often found among dispassionate thinkers as to make Shakespeare's case strange ...
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... Henry VI : II , i , 29 , and Henry VIII : II , i , 47 . The N. E. D. gives several early English ( no Elizabethan ) examples ; it quotes a 1400 Prymer ( Early Eng . Text Soc . ) , 64 : ' Gessist thou not ( Vulg . putasne ) that a deed ...
... Henry VI : II , i , 29 , and Henry VIII : II , i , 47 . The N. E. D. gives several early English ( no Elizabethan ) examples ; it quotes a 1400 Prymer ( Early Eng . Text Soc . ) , 64 : ' Gessist thou not ( Vulg . putasne ) that a deed ...
Page 48
... Henry II , and professes to have received it from Pope Hadrian IV . See his Polycraticon , sive de nugis curialium , hb . vi , ch . 24. Camden has omitted the latter part ; and the learned reader will do well to consult the original ...
... Henry II , and professes to have received it from Pope Hadrian IV . See his Polycraticon , sive de nugis curialium , hb . vi , ch . 24. Camden has omitted the latter part ; and the learned reader will do well to consult the original ...
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... Henry VI : IV , ii , 48 ] it is plain that Shakespeare con- ceived of ' rascal ' as a deer with a great head and a small body , who would neither fight nor run . Such deer though not unknown are very uncommon , though it is by no means ...
... Henry VI : IV , ii , 48 ] it is plain that Shakespeare con- ceived of ' rascal ' as a deer with a great head and a small body , who would neither fight nor run . Such deer though not unknown are very uncommon , though it is by no means ...
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ABBOTT Antium Arden Sh Aufidius Brutus Cæs CHAMBERS Warwick Sh character Citizens Coll Collier Cominius Compare conj Corio Coriolanus Coriolanus's Corioli Cotgrave coverture Craig dramatic Dyce E. K. CHAMBERS edition editors emendation enemy et cet examples Exeunt expression Falcon Sh Folio reading Folio Sh gives hath haue heart Henry Henry IV Henry VI honour Huds i'th interpretation Johns JOHNSON Julius Cæsar Ktly Lines end Malone Martius meaning Menenius misprint mother nature Neils noble o'th Othello passage Patricians play plebeians Plutarch poet Pope et seq PORTER First Folio pride quotes reference Roman Rome Rowe et seq says scene Schmidt seems Senate sense Shakespeare ſhall Sicin Sicinius Sing speak speech Steev Steevens Student's Sh thee Theob Theobald thou tongue Tribunes Tullus Varr verb Virgilia Volces Volcies Volsces Volscians Volumnia vpon W. A. WRIGHT Warb Warburton warres word
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Page 426 - I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
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