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Page viii
... Steevens's edition of 1793. Collier's text , unless other- wise noted , invariably includes Verplanck's . When after either of the two latter abbreviations , & c . and Var . , the name of any editor is included in a parenthesis , it is ...
... Steevens's edition of 1793. Collier's text , unless other- wise noted , invariably includes Verplanck's . When after either of the two latter abbreviations , & c . and Var . , the name of any editor is included in a parenthesis , it is ...
Page ix
... Steevens followed the old copies ; and lastly that Ulrici alone , of editors since Malone , reverted to the Quartos and Folios . I have very seldom noted the varia lectiones of the First Quarto ; it differs so widely that to do so in ...
... Steevens followed the old copies ; and lastly that Ulrici alone , of editors since Malone , reverted to the Quartos and Folios . I have very seldom noted the varia lectiones of the First Quarto ; it differs so widely that to do so in ...
Page xv
... and which here , for the first time , has found an expositor whose name has been for so many years a synonym , in our city , for accurate and finished scholarship . Steevens's remark , in the last century , that every PREFACE . XV.
... and which here , for the first time , has found an expositor whose name has been for so many years a synonym , in our city , for accurate and finished scholarship . Steevens's remark , in the last century , that every PREFACE . XV.
Page xvi
William Shakespeare Jill L. Levenson. Steevens's remark , in the last century , that every new edition of Shakespeare must be an experiment , is emphatically true of the present volume , and to suppose that no errors lurk in it would ...
William Shakespeare Jill L. Levenson. Steevens's remark , in the last century , that every new edition of Shakespeare must be an experiment , is emphatically true of the present volume , and to suppose that no errors lurk in it would ...
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... STEEVENS 1793 The Third Variorum 1821 HARNESS 1825 SINGER ( First Edition ) 1826 CAMPBELL ( London , 1866 ) 1838 KNIGHT ( First Edition ) 1838 CORNWALL 1839 R. G. WHITE ·· COLLIER ( First Edition ) VERPLANCK HAZLITT ULRICI DELIUS HUDSON ...
... STEEVENS 1793 The Third Variorum 1821 HARNESS 1825 SINGER ( First Edition ) 1826 CAMPBELL ( London , 1866 ) 1838 KNIGHT ( First Edition ) 1838 CORNWALL 1839 R. G. WHITE ·· COLLIER ( First Edition ) VERPLANCK HAZLITT ULRICI DELIUS HUDSON ...
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