Cruces Shakespearianæ

Download or read book Cruces Shakespearianæ written by Benjamin Gott Kinnear and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 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 T be following Work consists of Suggestions, resulting from many years' study, for t/ze E mendation of S lzakespeare's T ext. Every portion of it must stand or fall upon its individual merit, and t/iere is little occasion for I n traduction or Preface, but it may be well to state tlze general Principle on wkick tke Suggestions nave been made. I t is t/zat of Analogy: it is assumed tliat in Passages more or less similar in Tenour a corresponding Similarity of Expression may be looked for, and t/zat from Internal Evidence alone a Key may tlzus be found to tile true Reading of many doubtful and obviously corrupt Passages. External Evidence is not rejected, for Parallelis ms may reasonably be expected in Contemporary Writers but it is in tbc Works of t/ze Great Master himself tbat we may most confidently look for a Solution of tlzese Cruces; and to make. 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.