The Cambridge Shakespeare, Volume 8 by William Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare

The Cambridge Shakespeare was once released in 9 volumes among 1863 and 1866. Its cautious editorial ideas, appealing web page layout and chic typography have withstood the try of time. this article used to be according to an intensive collation of the 4 Folios and of all of the 4to variations of the separate performs, the bottom textual content being the 1623 Folio. The serious gear seems on the foot of the web page, yet for passages the place the 4to differs considerably the total 4to textual content appears to be like in small sort after the obtained textual content. Notes on the finish of every play clarify versions, emendations, and passages of surprising trouble or curiosity. Grammar and metre have been ordinarily left unchanged through the editors, yet punctuation was once normalised and nineteenth-century orthography was once followed rather than the variable Elizabethan spelling. In a daring circulate for a Victorian variation, the editors restored a variety of 'profane' expressions the place metre or experience demanded it.

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125. climatures] climatiire Dyce conj. ] Enter Ghost. Qq. Enter Ghost againe. Ff. 127. [It spreads his armes. Qq. om. Ff. He spreads his arms. Q (1676). 129, 130. Speak.. done] As in Pope. One line in QqFf. 131, 132. Speak to me] As in Qq. One line in Ff. ] As in Qq. One line in Ff. 134. foreknowing] foreknowledge Collier MS. See note (11). 138. you] Ff. your Qq. 139. ] Qq, after line 138. om. Ff. 130 HAMLET. 10 [ACT I. 140 Mar. Shall I strike at it with my partisan ? Hor. Do, if it will not stand.

33 As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Mar. Look, with what courteous a<5lion It waves you to a more removed ground: But do not go with it. Hor. NO, by no means. Ham. It will not speak; then I will follow it. Hor. Do not, my lord. Ham. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. Hor. What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness ?

Disasters in Brae conj. (N. ). Disastroushid'Taylor conj. MS. TI8. m]w//VRowe.

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