The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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Page 102
... old copies , I soon found that the later publishers , with all their boasts of diligence , suffered many passages to stand unauthorized , and contented them- selves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be ...
... old copies , I soon found that the later publishers , with all their boasts of diligence , suffered many passages to stand unauthorized , and contented them- selves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be ...
Page 112
... old copies will now be easily known ; but a more difficult * -and their caution against profaneness is , in my opinion , the only thing for which we are indebted to the editors of the folio . ] I doubt whether we are so much indebted to ...
... old copies will now be easily known ; but a more difficult * -and their caution against profaneness is , in my opinion , the only thing for which we are indebted to the editors of the folio . ] I doubt whether we are so much indebted to ...
Page 138
... old copies which are here amended without notice , to wit - the pointing , and wrong division of much of them respecting the numbers . And as to the first , it is so extremely erro- neous , throughout all the plays , and in every old copy ...
... old copies which are here amended without notice , to wit - the pointing , and wrong division of much of them respecting the numbers . And as to the first , it is so extremely erro- neous , throughout all the plays , and in every old copy ...
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