The Tragedie of Julius CaesarThe First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted his plays performed, giving as much direction as possible to his actors. Freeman looks at what is known of the printing of that First Folio and analyzes the variations between the First Folio, later Folios, Quarto editions (where available) and modern editions of the plays. He examines the "corrections" made by editors over the centuries that have shaped the way we perceive Shakespeare today -- from the regularization of verse, to the changes from prose to verse (and vice versa) and the standardization of character prefixes. |
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... haue gone vp- on my handy-worke. Fla. But wherefore art not in thy Shop to day/ Why do'ft thou leade thefe men about the ftreets? Cob. Truly fir, to weare out their fhooes, to get my felfe into more worke. But indeede fir, we make Holy ...
... haue gone vp- on my handy-worke. Fla. But wherefore art not in thy Shop to day/ Why do'ft thou leade thefe men about the ftreets? Cob. Truly fir, to weare out their fhooes, to get my felfe into more worke. But indeede fir, we make Holy ...
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... 444: '"I say, that if he was in Room" — Every one — Kemble himself — said "Room" in those days — "if he was in Room,"' &c. [See I, ii, 172.] Haue you climb'd vp to Walles and Battlements, 47 To ACT I, SC. i.] 19 IVLIVS CAESAR.
... 444: '"I say, that if he was in Room" — Every one — Kemble himself — said "Room" in those days — "if he was in Room,"' &c. [See I, ii, 172.] Haue you climb'd vp to Walles and Battlements, 47 To ACT I, SC. i.] 19 IVLIVS CAESAR.
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... haue fate The liue-long day, with patient expectation, 50 To fee great Pompey pafle the ftreets of Rome : And when you faw his Chariot but appeare, Haue you not made an Vniuerfall fhout, That Tyber trembled vnderneath her bankes To ...
... haue fate The liue-long day, with patient expectation, 50 To fee great Pompey pafle the ftreets of Rome : And when you faw his Chariot but appeare, Haue you not made an Vniuerfall fhout, That Tyber trembled vnderneath her bankes To ...
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... haue you not the crosse with the image Jesu Christ therupon? And he answered: We haue no such custome. Wherupon I coniectured that they were indeede Christians: but, that for lacke of instruction, they omitted the foresaide ceremonie ...
... haue you not the crosse with the image Jesu Christ therupon? And he answered: We haue no such custome. Wherupon I coniectured that they were indeede Christians: but, that for lacke of instruction, they omitted the foresaide ceremonie ...
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... and Cassius arose from their contest for the praetorship, which Caesar assigned to Brutus. This, too, was one of the causes of Cassius' I haue not from your eyes, that gentleneffe 41 And ACT I, sc. ii.] 27 IVLIVS CJ2SAR.
... and Cassius arose from their contest for the praetorship, which Caesar assigned to Brutus. This, too, was one of the causes of Cassius' I haue not from your eyes, that gentleneffe 41 And ACT I, sc. ii.] 27 IVLIVS CJ2SAR.
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