The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
V. 4. 30-61. It is scarcely worth while to record how Capell cut up
these thirty lines of prose into verse. No editor has followed him.
Mr Sidney Walker however has made a similar attempt, but is forced
to admit that in some changes of reading he has 'ventured beyond the
lawful limits of an emendator.' With the same license, it would be easy
to convert an Act of Parliament or a leading article into verse.
Mr Walker also has followed Capell, or perhaps has hit independently
on the same arrangement, as regards the first part of the scene. The
intervening lines from 10 to 30 are printed as verse in the folio. In
these he proposes some trifling changes of arrangement.
NOTE XII.
V. 5. 1-4. Pope, with more than usual audacity, makes the lines run
smoothly by thus changing them:
'Heav'n, from thy endless goodness, send long life,
And ever happy, to the high and mighty
Princess of England, fair Elizabeth.'
Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson adopt Pope's reading without
remark.
NOTE XIII.
V. 5. 32. Mr Collier mentions that the second Folio has 'Come' in this
line, a misprint rectified by his 'old annotator.' In three copies
which we have consulted it is distinctly 'Corne.'
NOTE XIV.
V. 5. 39-55, 56-62. Theobald was the first to suggest that lines 39
to 55 'Nor shall this peace ... bless heaven,' and lines 56 to 62,
'She shall be ... mourn her,' were an interpolation. Cranmer's speech
originally, as he supposed, ended at 'not by blood.' Then the King
replied:
'Thou speakest wonders. O lord Archbishop, &c.'
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[D].
PRIAM, king of Troy.
HECTOR, }
TROILUS, }
PARIS, } his sons.
DEIPHOBUS, }
HELENUS, }
MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam[E].
ÆNEAS, }
ANTENOR, } Trojan commanders.
CALCHAS, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks.
PANDARUS, uncle to Cressida.
AGAMEMNON, the Grecian general.
MENELAUS, his brother.
ACHILLES, }
AJAX, }
ULYSSES, } Grecian commanders.
NESTOR, }
DIOMEDES, }
PATROCLUS, }
THERSITES, a deformed and scurrilous Grecian.
ALEXANDER, servant to Cressida[E].
Servant to Troilus[E].
Servant to Paris.
Servant to Diomedes.
HELEN, wife to Menelaus.
ANDROMACHE, wife to Hector.
CASSANDRA, daughter to Priam; a prophetess[E].
CRESSIDA, daughter to Calchas.
Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants.
SCENE: _Troy, and the Grecian camp_.
[D] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] First given, imperfectly, by Rowe.
[E] Added by Theobald.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.[924]
FOOTNOTES:
[924] TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.] See note (I).
THE PROLOGUE.[925]
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