The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)Cibber, Theophilus
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The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)
Cibber, Theophilus
English drama -- 18th century
Throughout the document, the superscripted letters are preceeded by a
carot and are enclosed by curly brackets. Thus, the word "y^{e}"
represents a word where the "y" is normal and the "e" is superscripted;
and the word "1^{st}" represents a word where the "1" is normal and the
"st" is superscripted. In the ordinal numbers (e.g., 1^{st}) the
supercripted numbers where underlined by dotted lines. These dotted
lines also appeared under some other (but not all) of the superscripted
letters.
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the
speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected
unless otherwise noted. For instance, sometimes there were spaces after
slashes ("/") and sometimes there were no spaces after slashes.
Sometimes there were mismatched quotation marks, where it was less than
clear where the missing quotation marks should go.
Some words appear to be misspelled, but they were not corrected since
this book is so old (1733) and spellings have changed over the
centuries.
The acute accent for Settee was changed to Settee throughout the text.
On the second page 1 "& and End" was replaced with "& an End".
On the second page 5 (yes, there are two pages 5), "rake" was replaced
with "Rake".
On the second page 5 the word "Clown" was italizied to make it it
consistent with other instances of the word.
On the second Page 6 "PS and OP" were replaced with "P.S. and O.P."
On the second page 8 a period was added after "coming from Church".
On the second page 11, "SCENE 12" was replaced with "Scene 12".
On the second page 12, the word "Mansion", which was crossed out in the
book was deleted.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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