Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...Polymnestor, In order to perpe trate her revenge. This we may learn from Euripides's Hacuba," kc. TH_E0BALD.---The old eds. have "in his tent."--The writer of this speech (certnmly not Shakespeare) seems to have been rather familiar with the classics. The old eds. have " the."----" Read 'her' with Rowe, or perhaps 'ill-68cents-"' Walker's C'-rit. Eram. Sac. vol. iii. p. 216. P. 287. (8) "the coflin laid in the tomb-" So the quartos ("lay the Caflin in the Tombe").--The folio has "the Cofiius;" but compare the earlier stage-direction, p. 285, "two Men hearing I 001511.... set drmm the coflin."----From the language used by Titu's while 5P9ak' ing of his dead sons, Mr. W. N. Lettsom thinks that "the author Could scarcely have intended only one coffin to be produced-. the company, 11 doubt, exhibited only one cofiin because they possessed no more." P. 287. (9) "rcpnsc you here," "Old copies, redundantly in respect both to sense and metre, 'repose you here in 1'0-9l'.' " STEEVENS. Nay, most ridiculously in respect to 501159 P. 287. (10) " Herc grow no dam/ned grudges, here no st0rn1&" The qunrtos and the folio have " Iwra are-no storma ."-The editor 05 the second folio omits "are;" which Walker seems not to have know" when he remarked as follows on the present line; " Q11. 'grudge' F' for the supernumerory syllable is, I think, altogether alien to the metre of H115 P1? 'Or did the author write ' here no storms'? 'here' for 'here an, 5 Latinism."