The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] · William Shakespeare
TRANSCRIBER’S ENDNOTE.
Original printed spelling and grammar are retained, with exceptions noted below. Small caps are changed to all capital letters. Italics _look like this_. Numerals originally printed as subscripts are shown inline e.g. “F1”. The changes recommended in the ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA section have been applied. Verse indents were sized using a monospace font. Proportional fonts will render the indents less accurately. Linenotes in the original printed book resided on the page with the line referenced. In this edition, linenotes have been converted to footnotes and have been moved to the ends of the respective plays. Linenumbers, footnote anchors, and the footnote labels are shown with play number (in this book), Act number, and Scene number prefixed, coded a–f, a–e, and a–w, respectively. Thus a hypothetical line/footnote coded "[feb065]" designates line 65 in the sixth play (King Richard III), Act 5, Scene 2. A linenumber that is not also a footnote anchor looks like "·feb065·". Pg. 276, l. cca028: _K. Ken._ is changed to _K. Hen._. Pg. 318: two linenotes were missing line references. The first, “Sir John Somerville.]” seems to refer to line cea007; the second, “King E., Gloucester,]” seems to refer line cea016; anchors for these have been added. In the fourth and fifth plays—“The First Part of the Contention &c.”, and “The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Good Henry the Sixt”—some words or phrases were printed below or above the appropriate text line, preceded by left parenthesis “(”. These have been moved to the correct line of text. Examples include ll. dac113, dar067, eaa116, eal057, &c.
Pg. 350, Scene III l. 1: the footnote “_let vs_]” was originally anchored to Scene II l. 81, but Scene II ends at line 80. The anchor has been changed to Scene III l. 1, i.e. line dac001, in the notation used in this edition. Pg. 363, ll. daf024-daf033: these lines were printed as prose, but with a strange line break after the phrase “true heire to Lyonell Duke”. This line break has been removed in this edition. Page 410, l. eaa096: the sentence ending punctuation was not printed, and none has been supplied herein. On pg. 410, l. eaa129, and in the linenote associated with it, “T‛was” was printed with a U+201B (single high reversed-9 quotation mark). This is retained herein, but may not render properly in some browsers or e-readers. Pg. 411, l. eaa133: the sentence “Then am I lawfull king” was printed without punctuation, and none has been supplied. Other instances of missing sentence end punctuation include l. eae060. Page 424, linenote to l. ead097: it is not clear whether the hyphen in “_Night-Owles_ Q3.” should be retained. Page 428, l. eae076: “_Prince,_” changed to “_Prince._”. Page 458, l. eas051: the two full stops printed at the end of the line are retained. Page 541, l. fbb145: The two speakers for this line were indicated by a large right curly bracket “}” in the printed book, but like “_Q. Eliz. & Duch._” in this edition. Page 622, linenote to l. fec130: “Keigthley” changed to “Keightley”.
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