Cruces Shakespearianae Difficult Passages In The Works Of Shakespeare The Text Of The Folio And Quartos Collated With The Lections Of Recent Editions And The Old Commentators With Original Emendations And Notes PDF Download

Excerpt from Cruces Shakespearianae: Difficult Passages in the Works of Shakespeare; The d104 of the Folio and Quartos Collated With the Lections of Recent Editions and the Old Commentators; With Original Emendations and Notes The following Work consists of Suggestions, resulting from many years' study, for the Emendation of Shakespeare's d104. Every portion of it must stand or fall upon its individual merit, and there is little occasion for Introduction or Preface, but it may be well to state the general Principle on which the Suggestions have been made. It is that of Analogy: it is assumed that in Passages more or less similar in Tenour a corresponding Similarity of Expression may be looked for, and that from Internal Evidence alone a Key may thus be found to the true Reading of many doubtful and obviously corrupt Passages. External Evidence is not rejected, for Parallelisms may reasonably be expected in Contemporary Writers: but it is in the Works of the Great Master himself that we may most confidently look for a Solution of these Cruces; and to make Shakespeare his own Interpreter is the main Object of this Work. 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."