Old English Dramas (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Old English Dramas This play was first published by Kirkman and Marsh, in 1662, one of the most slovenly editions that ever issued from the press. The blank verse is printed therein as prose, and the task of restoring the original verse is by no means easy as the orthography is anything but trustworthy, words being abbreviated where the verse required the full form and vice versa, the tenses altered, explanatory words incorporated with the text, and the stage directions sometimes tacked on to the dialogue. In 1869 this play appeared in a volume entitled Doubtful Plays of the Tauchnitz edition. The text of the present edition is that of the edition of 1662, but, as this series is, in the main, intended for the million, a compromise has been attempted in this way. The spelling has been modernized, and the obvious misprints and errors of the original text have been corrected. 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.