PREFACE. THE Notes on Shakespeare which compose the present Volume mere begun as a diversion from abstruser studies but thk Author soon found that to do anything effectual in this way required nearly as much diligent research and patient thought as to discuss the Principles of Value, the Metaphysics of Vision, or the Theory of Reasoning. The attractiveness of the employment, nevertheless, drew him on, till his memoranda had, in the progress of years, accuinulated to a considerable bulk, from which he now offers a selection ...
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PREFACE. THE Notes on Shakespeare which compose the present Volume mere begun as a diversion from abstruser studies but thk Author soon found that to do anything effectual in this way required nearly as much diligent research and patient thought as to discuss the Principles of Value, the Metaphysics of Vision, or the Theory of Reasoning. The attractiveness of the employment, nevertheless, drew him on, till his memoranda had, in the progress of years, accuinulated to a considerable bulk, from which he now offers a selection to the Public. Should it turn out that he has succeeded in throwing light on any portion of the text of our great dramatist, it will be no - small addition to the pleasure he has already enjoyed in making the attempt. XORBUR n Y e, a r SHEPFIELD. - ATov. 21st, 1861. . c CONTENTS. PAET . PAGE I.-PRINCIPLES . 1 11.-PROPOSED EMENDATIONS . . 27 Ha, mlet . . 27 RSacbeth . . 60 vRomeo and Juliet . . 94 Coriolanus . . 98 Julius Ccesar . . 103 King Lear . . 110 Cymbeline . . 114 The Tempest . . 122 The Comedy of Errors . . 131 Loves Labours Lost . . . 145 A Midsummer Niglits Dream . . . 152 The Merchant of Venice, . 156 AsYouLikeIt . . . . 160 HI.--INUETEI MINAETEEA DINGS . . 162 Coriolanus . . - . . 164 limon of Athens . . 170 Henry IV. . . . . 174 Henry V. . . 183 Henry VI. . . l87 Henry VIII. . . 190 EAItT PAGE l 11.-IXDETERJIINAIT EA DIX G co S n i u - e - d 3Iucll Ado About Nothing . . 103 A Blidsummer Nights Dream . . 196 . Alls Well That Ends Veil . . 201 Twelfth Night . . 203 Winters Tale . . 209 1 V. - VERBARL EPETITIO . S S . 213 Article I. A Cursory Comparison of the Corruptions in Shakespeares Text which are noted in the preceding Comnlentary, with hIodern Errorsof t l eP ress . . 245 II. NoteA. supplementarytop. 116 . . 2GO 111., B. 9 118 . . 263 THE TEXT SHAKESPEARE. PART I. PRINCIPLES. IT is too well known to be more than glanced at 1 here by way of introduction to what follows, that no great writer in the English language has been so unfortunate in regard to the imperfect state in which his productions mere given to the world as Shakespeare. The defectiveness of the text in the dramatic works appears, from the scanty evidence we possess, to have been partly occasioned by the slovenly manner in which many of them were first taken down from the lips, or copied from the manuscript notes of the players, or from the prompters books and partly by the no less slovenly manner in which they were printcd. But even such sloven-B 2 TIIE TEXT OF SIIARESPEARE. liness mould have had no permanent consequences had not the author himself, in the latter part of his life, when he might have set a11 right, shown an unaccountable, or at least an extraordinary, disregard and carelessness about the printing of his own works. A genuine text cannot be said indeed ever to have existed in print. The actual corruption of it even in the best early editions is conspicuous in the numerous efforts subsequently macle to amend or restore it. Sometimes the suggestions offered with this view have been so felicitous that they have been instantaneously adopted. At other times the proposed emendations have thrown no light except on the weakness of the proposers. They have been too often mere random guesses hastily thrown out, while surely the importance of a right text should have commanded the patient and considerate application of recognised, or at. all events systematic, canons. To some of our best commentators however these derogatory strictures may but occasionally apply, and it is readily acknowledged that me are indebted to their labours for the removal of many blemishes...
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