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... lines of Twelfth Night in the accepted text are punctuated thus : If music be the food of love , play on ; Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting , The appetite may sicken , and so die . That strain again ! It had a dying fall : O ...
... lines of Twelfth Night in the accepted text are punctuated thus : If music be the food of love , play on ; Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting , The appetite may sicken , and so die . That strain again ! It had a dying fall : O ...
Page 152
... lines repeated have been omitted . It is clear that Shakespeare rewrote and expanded the speech ; but the printer misunderstood his copy and printed both the old and new ending . It follows that every play must be carefully examined by ...
... lines repeated have been omitted . It is clear that Shakespeare rewrote and expanded the speech ; but the printer misunderstood his copy and printed both the old and new ending . It follows that every play must be carefully examined by ...
Page 170
... line . This irritates editors , who shift the lines up to make them look better , until they come to some line which cannot be moved . Then they leave it as a broken line and start again . When a Folio text is closely studied it is ...
... line . This irritates editors , who shift the lines up to make them look better , until they come to some line which cannot be moved . Then they leave it as a broken line and start again . When a Folio text is closely studied it is ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
MATERIALS FOR THE LIFE | 24 |
SHAKESPEARES COMPANY | 70 |
Copyright | |
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