The Knight of the Burning Pestle
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: H. Holt Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: H. Holt Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE KNIGHT THE BURNING PESTLE TEXT EDITOR'S NOTE The text adopted for the present edition is that of a copy of the First Quarto, dated 1613, which is preserved in the Boston Public Library. Except for pagination, line-numbering, and a few substitutions of modern for archaic characters, the text here given aims to be an exact reproduction of the Quarto. In the compilation of variants, the guiding principle has been to record only those alterations of the original text which materially clarify or strengthen the sense, or which supply alternate readings having a peculiar interest. This has involved the noting of all suggestive changes of punctuation ; all changes in spelling of which the result is a difference of form or removal of ambiguities; and all stage-directions and scene-headings supplied by the editions of Weber and Dyce. Frequently, also, the egregious blunders and inconsistencies of punctuation in the First Quarto have led me to note subsequent corrections, even in passages of which the meaning is perfectly clear. I have limited myself, however, to the emendations of only the more obtrusive of such errors; to have noticed all of them would have involved a task manifestly disproportionate to the value of its results. I have not given separate treatment to the edition of 1811, since it is merely a reprint of that of 1778, nor to Darley's editions of 1840 and 1866, since they are reprints of the text of Weber. Keltic's text of the play in his Works of the British Dramatists, 18...
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