Bastiaan Adriaan Pieter van Dam
Published: 2015-07-17
Total Pages: 460
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Excerpt from Prosody and Text: An Essay in Criticism, Being an Introduction to a Better Editing and a More Adequate Appreciation of the Works of the Elizabethan Poets Century = The Century Dictionary. D. O. E. P. E. H. = Dodsley's Old English Plays, Editio Hazlitt. Ed. = Editio. E. H. = Editio Hazlitt. F. = Folio. Used with reference to Shakespeare's works, "F." always denotes the first Folio of 1623. References to any of the later Folios are in every case expressly marked as such in the text. Murray = A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray. p. = page. Q. = Quarto; by which always the first Quarto is meant, to the exclusion of the surreptitious Quartos. (Thus, in the case of Hamlet, for instance, Q. denotes the second Quarto of the year 1604). Q. S. = Surreptitious Quarto, by which are meant the first Quartos of II H 6., III H 6., R. & J., H 5., Wives, and Ham. R. A. = Arber's Reprint. R. N. Shak. S. = Reprint of the New Shakespeare Society. R. S. S. = Reprint of the Spenser Society. Trans. = Transactions. The references to Ben Jonson are to a copy of his first Folio of 1615 in the Royal Library at the Hague, this volume being indicated by i; or to a copy of the second volume of the second Folio, also at the Hague. Since the volume last mentioned has no continuous paging, quotations from it in our text are always accompanied by the title of the play or the work cited from. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.