Noticed that this drastic cut also removes the Bottom-Asshead incident and would Shakespeare's earlier handling of the matter having been cut entirely. Here, although no insertionįor some explanation of the "flower" referred to by Oberon in line 247, In the Smock Alley prompt-books a cross is frequently used to mark the Twenty lines (perhaps more) earlier, this cross cannot indicate his point ofĮntry. Since, in order to make the speech, Oberon must have entered at least fifteen to Prompt-book, however, there is a cross in the left margin opposite this speech. In fact as the cutting now stands Oberon's first speechĬomes at line 245" just after the exits of Demetrius and Helena. They are entirely concerned with the Titania-Oberon quarrel, and almostĬertainly lines 19-31. But it is certain, that lines 60-97 must have been deleted since Of Act I and the beginning of Act II makes the full extent of the cut somewhatĬonjectural. It is unfortunate that even in this case the loss of the leaf containing the end Oberon over the little Indian boy and the consequent Bottom-enchantment episode. Titania or at least so much of her role as is concerned with the quarrel with The most interesting cut is the attempt to get rid entirely of the character of The 'Nursery' version will work out at about 1,357. Version thus runs to roughly 1,491 lines allowing for around 575, lines in theįirst three acts and about 170 for the last two (by analogy with Smock Alley), With this we may compare the 460 lines cut in theįirst three acts of the Smock Alley prompt-book (in all, Smock Alley cuts aroundĦ11 lines), in itself an example of rather heavy cutting. I should judge, therefore, a figure of 575 lines for the first three acts What I suspect to be heavy cutting at the beginning of Act IIĪnd some probable cutting at the end of Act Seems heavy: 511 lines in the first three acts, a figure which does not include Judging from what is left, however, the amount of deletion UnfortunatelyĮverything from the end of act three (and a leaf containing parts of acts oneĪnd two) is missing, making it essentially impossible to say much about theĬutting as a whole. Little verbal alteration in The Comedy of Errors. It may also be observed that there is very The three that do occur (see for example I.i.79), as I have noted, is the sameĪs Hand I in The Comedy of Errors, and in both versions the cutting 2Īs the collations show there are almost no verbal alterations, but the hand in Separately bound volumes were parts of the same copy of the First Folio. ![]() It is, moreover, fairly certain that at one time the two 'Nursery' promptbook of The Comedy of Errors by the appearance in it ofĪ common hand (Hand I in Comedy of Errors) and by the general method of It is possible, however, to link this cutting with the THE 'Nursery' version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is not a prompt-book,īut a simple cutting of the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Collations. ![]() Introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream.The production of this volume was supervised by Fredson Bowers The Bibliographical Society Of the University Of Virginia The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia January 1997 corrector Catherine Tousignant, Electronic Text Center Corrected various transcription errors.Keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Center scheme to aid inĮnglish drama prose LCSH 24-bit color 400 dpi July 1997 corrector Catherine Tousignant, Electronic Text Center The images exist as archived TIFF images, one or more JPEG versions for general Word has been joined to the preceding line. Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.Īll unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed, and the trailing part of a Shakespearean prompt-books of the seventeenth century University Press of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1964 Print copy consulted: UVa Library call number PR 2757. The prompt-books are reproduced in collotype Shakespearean prompt-books of the seventeenth century Shakespearean prompt-books of the seventeenth century, vol. 25 kilobytes University of Virginia Library. Night's Dream) Shakespeare, William Creation of machine-readable version: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Creation of digital images: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. Shakespearean prompt-books of the seventeenth century, vol.
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