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@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@ *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 2270 *** - - -Project Gutenberg's Etext of Shakespeare's First Folio/35 Plays - - - - - Executive Director's Notes: In addition to the notes below, and so you will *NOT* think all @@ -22,7 +14,7 @@ your selfe Bar. Long liue the King -*** + * * * * * As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words or letters they had often packed into a "cliche". . .this is the @@ -55,56 +47,46 @@ made by our volunteer who prepared this file: you may see errors that are "not" errors. . . . So. . .with this caveat. . .we have NOT changed the canon errors, -here is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Shakespeare's First Folio. +here is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Shakespeare's play. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Director + * * * * * -*** - +Scanner's Notes: -Scanner's Notes: What this is and isn't. This is a copy of +What this is and isn't. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare's first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. -The play Pericles, Prince of Tyre is missing from this edition -of the First Folio because it wasn't printed in the First Folio. -The Sonnets and other poems of Shakespeare are also missing -because they also were not printed in the First Folio. - The elongated S's have been changed to small s's and the -conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, -punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the -printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put -together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the -Geneva Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio and have unified +conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, +punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed +text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put +together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of +the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo's and expanded -abbreviations as I have come across them. Everything within -brackets [] is what I have added. So if you don't like that -you can delete everything within the brackets if you want a -purer Shakespeare. - -Another thing that you should be aware of is that there are textual -differences between various copies of the first folio. So there may -be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) between -this and other first folio editions. This is due to the printer's -habit of setting the type and running off a number of copies and -then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type and then -continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn't thrown away but -incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the way it is. -The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 different -First Folio editions' best pages. - -If you find any scanning errors, out and out typos, punctuation -errors, or if you disagree with my spelling choices please feel -free to email me those errors. I wish to make this the best -etext possible. My email address for right now are haradda@aol.com -and davidr@inconnect.com. I hope that you enjoy this. +abbreviations as I have come across them. Everything within +brackets [] is what I have added. So if you don't like that you +can delete everything within the brackets if you want a purer +Shakespeare. + +Another thing that you should be aware of is that there are +textual differences between various copies of the first folio. So +there may be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) +between this and other first folio editions. This is due to the +printer's habit of setting the type and running off a number of +copies and then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type +and then continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn't thrown +away but incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the +way it is. The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 +different First Folio editions' best pages. David Reed +===================================================================== @@ -114,7 +96,6 @@ Project Gutenberg's Etext of Shakespeare's First Folio/35 Plays - To the Reader. This Figure, that thou here feest put, |