The Works of Shakespeare: Macbeth (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Works of Shakespeare: Macbeth

Similarly, in the great incantation scene in act-iv. Alterations of the like character should be made. These are mentioned in their places in the notes, but they cannot adequately be brought home to the mind of the reader unless he has the altered text before him. And this important question is con cerned with specific points of difficulty in the Folio text occur words corrupted, misprinted or omitted; and the equally important matter of the re-arrangement of faultily printed lines. The Editor has attempted to deal with these in their places in the notes; but the only adequate method of dealing with them is by setting them out in the text itself. A few of these may be mentioned in this place by way of illustration - (i) Emendations, etc. (a) Corrections of the text: IV. 11. 22, Eac/z way amavea' IV. Iii. 136, the 1 grace of Goodness etc.; V. Iii 5, consequence; V. Iii. 44, 7 slnf V. Iv. 10, sitting down. (6) Words or letters added to or removed from the text 1. Iv. 35, sons [and] kinsmen I. V. 40, Come you [ill] spirits 1. Vi. 30, continue [in] our graces II. Iii. 80, Banquo, [up] II. Iii. 125, where[out] our fate;' III. Ii. 16, [become] disjoint, suffer [dissolu tion] IV. 11. 23, [it] shall not be long IV. Iii. 44, of goodly thousands [ten] IV. Iii. 218, all [my V. V. 32, Well say [it], Sir V. Vii. 89, [hail (ii) Re-arrangement of faultily printed lines: 1. Iii. 7, 8, Her husband's to Aleppo gone, Master 0' the Tiger (in two lines); 11. Iii. 107, 108, they stared them 11. Iii. 126-8, Let us away foot of motion 111. I. 45, Sirrah men our III. 11. 16, 17, But let [dissolu tion] 111. Iii. 9-11, Then it is he Are in the court.

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.