The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
I. 2. 145. Considering the carelessness with which a plural
demonstrative pronoun was used with reference to a singular noun and
_vice versa_, we have not altered the reading of the old editions in
order to accommodate the construction to modern rule. See note (IV) to
_Love's Labour's Lost_.
NOTE XI.
I. 2. 259. The misprint in Rowe's second edition remained uncorrected by
Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson. Capell in correcting the
error made another by writing 'her' for 'the.' He printed his edition
not from any former text, but from a manuscript of his own writing.
Another instance of the facility with which a misprint which makes sense
escapes correction is found in II. 1. 4, where 'put,' a misprint for
'pull' in the Variorum of 1821, was retained by many subsequent editors,
Mr Collier, Mr Singer, &c.
NOTE XII.
I. 2. 278. Mr Grant White believes the whole of the foregoing scene to
be by some other hand than Shakespeare's. Coleridge and Sidney Walker
also held that large portions of the play were not from the master's
hand. It appears to us impossible to discriminate, as in _Henry the
Eighth_ and _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, what parts were due to Shakespeare
and what to another hand. The feeblest scenes of this play seem to have
been touched by him. The probability is that he worked, in this case,
not with, but after, another.
NOTE XIII.
II. 1. 403. Pope inserts from the old play:
'[_Sly speaks to one of the servants._
_Sly._ Sim, when will the fool come again?
_Sim._ Anon, my lord.
_Sly._ Give's some more drink here--where's the tapster? here Sim, eat
some of these things.
_Sim._ So I do, my lord.
_Sly._ Here Sim, I drink to thee.'
These lines were repeated by all subsequent editors down to Capell, who
inserted them at a different place. See note (XVI).
NOTE XIV.
III. 2. 63. Mr Collier says that the Quarto reads 'the humor _or_ fourty
fancies...' If so, his copy differs from ours, which reads 'the humor
_of_ fourty fancies...'
NOTE XV.
III. 2. 81-84. It is not always clear from the way in which Capell's
text is printed whether he meant a passage where there is a rapid change
of speakers to be read as prose or verse. In the Edition before us, this
is always explained by certain conventional symbols inserted with his
own hand in red ink. This he probably did with a view to a second
edition, which he never lived to bring out. 'Tulit alter honores.'
NOTE XVI.
III. 2. 245. Capell here inserted the lines which Pope put after II. 1.
403. See note (XIII).
NOTE XVII.
IV. 1. 124. Theobald first printed 'Where is the life that late I led?'
as part of a song. He printed also the following words, 'Where are
those--' in italics, as if they were a continuation of the song. He was
followed by Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson, but not by Capell. As the
song is lost, the question must remain doubtful.
NOTE XVIII.
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