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Page v
... editors of Shakespeare have drawn copious supplies of illustration and criticism . It is indispensable to a thorough study of Shakespeare - as necessary to Shakespeare as Orelli to Horace , or Dissen to Pindar . Not that an acquaintance ...
... editors of Shakespeare have drawn copious supplies of illustration and criticism . It is indispensable to a thorough study of Shakespeare - as necessary to Shakespeare as Orelli to Horace , or Dissen to Pindar . Not that an acquaintance ...
Page vi
... editors as Knight , Singer , Col- lier , Ulrici , Delius , Dyce , Hudson , Staunton , White , Clarke , Keight- ley , and Halliwell , are to be found only in as many different volumes ; and to gather the comments of these critics on ...
... editors as Knight , Singer , Col- lier , Ulrici , Delius , Dyce , Hudson , Staunton , White , Clarke , Keight- ley , and Halliwell , are to be found only in as many different volumes ; and to gather the comments of these critics on ...
Page vii
... Editors themselves suffer from this omission , when it happens , as it sometimes does , that their own excellent selection is passed over uncredited . It was this omission in the textual notes of the Cambridge Editors that first led to ...
... Editors themselves suffer from this omission , when it happens , as it sometimes does , that their own excellent selection is passed over uncredited . It was this omission in the textual notes of the Cambridge Editors that first led to ...
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... editors , but not always : in some cases I have followed only one editor ; and this I have felt at liberty to do , since , in such an edition as the present , it makes very little difference what text is printed in extenso , since every ...
... editors , but not always : in some cases I have followed only one editor ; and this I have felt at liberty to do , since , in such an edition as the present , it makes very little difference what text is printed in extenso , since every ...
Page ix
... editors , all the rest of the editors adopt the reading of the Variorum , Exceptions are placed in I have used the abbreviation Var . et cet . ' parentheses ; e . g . , I , v , 19 , ' You are welcome ] Var . et cet . ( Knt . Dyce , Sta ...
... editors , all the rest of the editors adopt the reading of the Variorum , Exceptions are placed in I have used the abbreviation Var . et cet . ' parentheses ; e . g . , I , v , 19 , ' You are welcome ] Var . et cet . ( Knt . Dyce , Sta ...
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