ABSTRACT

Asthisbookfocusesontexts,itisimportanttopresentShakespeare passagesintheforminwhichtheywerefirstprinted.Forthat reason,quotationsaregivenastheyappearinquarto(Q)orfolio (F).QuartotextswereconsultedusingShakespeare'sPlaysinQjlarto:A FacsimileEditionofCopiesPrimari£v.ftomtheHenryE.HuntingtonLibrary ed.MichaelJ.B.AllenandKennethMuir(BerkeleyandLos Angeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1981);theyarereferredto bypagesignature.FoliotextswereconsultedusingtheNorton Facsimileofl'v1r.vVilliamShakespearesComedies,Histories,&Tragedies (1heFirstFolio),preparedbyCharltonHinman(NewYork:Norton, 1968);theyarereferredtousingthethrough-line-numbers(TLN) ofthatedition.Amodernact-scene-linereferenceisalsosupplied, takenfromthe1heRiversideShakespeareed.G.BlakemoreEvans eta!.,secondedn(BostonandNewYork:HoughtonMiffiin,1997). Speech-prefixeshave,toavoidconfusion,beenregularisedexcept ininstanceswhentheyarethemselvesthesubjectofexamination.Similarly,'i'and'j'and'u'and'v'havebeenregularisedin quotations,except,again,whentheuseofeitherisunderdiscussion.