Used very good.
Editor's General Note
The editor has kept before him the aim of pre-
to the modern reader the ncarest possible approximation
The text is therefore con-
and is based on thc carliest reliable printed text. But to
distraction (-) the spelling is modernised, and () a limited
of universally accepted emnendations is admitted without
Where a Quarto text exists as well as the First Folio
the passages which occur only in the Quarto are enclosed in square
brackets and those which occur only in the Folio in brace
The Text.
what Shakespcare actually wrote.
Scene Division. The rapid continuity of the Elizabethan
production is lost by the traditional scene divisions.
Where there is an essential difference of place these scene divisions
are retained. Where on the other hand the change of place is
the scene division is indicated only by a space on the
page. For ease of reference, however, the traditional division
retained at the head of the page and in line numbering.
Notes.
↑ in the margin.
Passages on which there are notes are indicated by a
Punctuation adheres more closely than has been usual to the
Elizabethan punctuation of the early texts. It is often therefore
more indicative of the way in which the lines were to be delivered
than of their syntactical construction.
Glossaries are arranged on a somewhat novel principle, not
alphabetically, but in the order in which the words or phrases
occur. The editor is much indebted to Mr J. N. Bryson for his
collaboration in the preparation of the glossaries.
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