William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's origin. The stage in 1592. Shakespeare and his company. The book of the play. The quartos and the First folio. Plays in the printing-house. The problem of authenticity. The problems of chronology. Plays of the First folioCovers the whole field of Shakespeare criticism. Includes individual chapters on plays, biographical information, records, allusions, legends, and forgery lists. |
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Page 176
... misprints , which make no sense , may have this origin . Whether the very common but not textually important substitution of a ' turned n ' for a ' u ' or vice versa is due to foul case seems doubtful.2 Most misprints , however , are ...
... misprints , which make no sense , may have this origin . Whether the very common but not textually important substitution of a ' turned n ' for a ' u ' or vice versa is due to foul case seems doubtful.2 Most misprints , however , are ...
Page 177
... misprints , and may itself be the result either of stupidity or carelessness or self- confidence or haste or fatigue or drink or talkativeness or absorption in alien ideas . Similar misprints may result from different causes , and ...
... misprints , and may itself be the result either of stupidity or carelessness or self- confidence or haste or fatigue or drink or talkativeness or absorption in alien ideas . Similar misprints may result from different causes , and ...
Page 186
... misprints and mislineation . Pro- bably from the beginning , certainly in some of the re- printed Quartos , and more markedly in the Folio , there is a small amount of conjectural emendation intended to remove errors or presumed errors ...
... misprints and mislineation . Pro- bably from the beginning , certainly in some of the re- printed Quartos , and more markedly in the Folio , there is a small amount of conjectural emendation intended to remove errors or presumed errors ...
Contents
THE STAGE IN 1592 | 29 |
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS COMPANY | 57 |
THE BOOK OF THE PLAY | 92 |
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