Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632Supplement to Collier's 'The works of Shakespeare : the text regulated by the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript emendations : with a history of the stage, a life of the poet, and an introduction to each play,' also known as the Perkins folio. Collier claimed to have discovered extensive new manuscript emendations to Shakespeare's folio of 1632 in a 17th-century hand, which he published in 'Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays.' After examining the manuscript, scholars at the British Museum proclaimed it to be a 19th-century forgery. |
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... amendment , or for giving it only a qualified approbation , I have plainly stated my reasons , more particularly in the later portion of the work : I pursued , indeed , the same method , to a certain extent , in the earlier portion ...
... amendment , or for giving it only a qualified approbation , I have plainly stated my reasons , more particularly in the later portion of the work : I pursued , indeed , the same method , to a certain extent , in the earlier portion ...
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... amendments must have been introduced from time to time , during , perhaps , the course of several years . The changes in punc- tuation alone , always made with nicety and patience , must have required a long period , considering their ...
... amendments must have been introduced from time to time , during , perhaps , the course of several years . The changes in punc- tuation alone , always made with nicety and patience , must have required a long period , considering their ...
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... amendments are restorations of words that were be- coming somewhat obsolete in the time of Shakespeare , such as bisson , blind , blead , fruit , & c .; but there is one instance of the sort so remark- able , that I cannot refuse to ...
... amendments are restorations of words that were be- coming somewhat obsolete in the time of Shakespeare , such as bisson , blind , blead , fruit , & c .; but there is one instance of the sort so remark- able , that I cannot refuse to ...
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... of the folio , 1632 , puts it in this amended form : — " Madam , this service having done for you , ( Though you respect not aught your servant doth ) To hazard life , and rescue you from him , SC . II . ] 47 OF VERONA .
... of the folio , 1632 , puts it in this amended form : — " Madam , this service having done for you , ( Though you respect not aught your servant doth ) To hazard life , and rescue you from him , SC . II . ] 47 OF VERONA .
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... amend it in various ways , but they have not been so fortunate as to hit upon the right changes . We first quote the passage as Malone regulates it , and follow it by the alteration recommended by the corrector of the folio , 1632 ...
... amend it in various ways , but they have not been so fortunate as to hit upon the right changes . We first quote the passage as Malone regulates it , and follow it by the alteration recommended by the corrector of the folio , 1632 ...
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Page 193 - 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, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
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