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"Never printed before, and now published by the authours originall copies"
First folio; includes the plays not hitherto printed, except the Wild-goose chase, which was missing, but recovered and printed in 1652. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
"The Epistle dedicatorie" is signed by John Lowin, Joseph Taylor, and eight others; "To the reader" signed by Ja. Shirley, who is usually regarded as the editor.
Portrait of Fletcher by Marshall.
For complete contents of this edition, see NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama aims to make available XML files for the plays within our corpus limits, i.e. plays performed on the professional stage in England between 1576 and 1642, for which there is an extant witness printed before 1660. The project is producing a subset of "Featured Play" texts which offer reliable documentary editions for reading and download.
The Early Modern English Drama (EMED) text is derived from a Shakespeare His Contemporaries-encoded, Early English Books Text Creation Partnership transcription of a single printed witness. It has undergone further proofing against the imaged copy available through Early English Books Online, the microfilm images, or, in some cases, against the printed copy itself. The goal has been to provide a reliable, flexible, and transparent documentary edition of this early printed witness.
Some minor typographical variations, such as turned letters, are tacitly standardized.
Significant typographical variations such as those caused by missorted type, although
likely unintentional, are retained in the transcription in the
Corrections are made to the text as provided by SHC in new
A few typographical and orthographic features have been tacitly standardized. All
instances of long ’s’ have been mapped to the modern form. The q-et abbreviation has
been rendered as q[ue]. The single character form of "Ye" for "the" has been rendered as
two characters, with the ’e’ in superscript. Where possible, accents have been retained
regardless of modern usage. Superscript letters are retained in the
Hyphenation has been represented as originally printed. End-of-line hyphenation has
been transcribed by EMED as a
Acts, scenes, and other major textual units such as title pages, epilogues, prefaces,
and other paratexts are enclosed in
Page breaks in the print witness are included in
Words, spaces, and punctuation marks are enclosed in
Speeches are enclosed in
Stage directions are enclosed within
Poems, songs, and letters within plays are enclosed in
Verse lines are not segmented within
Lineation is complicated by accidental features of publication. EMED documentary editions
mark the line breaks as they appear in the print witness, but it is understood that
other projects may wish to format the text differently. Therefore, the text itself is
not enclosed in any kind of line tag. Instead, the elements of a typographic line are
combined using a
The
The
When specifying
When it is impossible to track an individual’s entrances and exits, or when it is difficult to know how many characters are in the group, we prefer to track the group rather than individuals. When there is this uncertainty about who in the group is speaking, the .0 modifier is used to single out actions by a subset of the group (one or more individuals). If a single unknown person within the group speaks, that person can be identified with an extra decimal number, e.g. ATTENDANTS.0.1. For example, if a group of ATTENDANTS enters, and one speaks, that one is identified as ATTENDANTS.0.1. If a second, different person speaks that person is ATTENDANTS.0.2. A third speech which may be any of the ATTENDANTS reverts to the wider ATTENDANTS.0 designator.
Words, spaces, and punctuation characters are numbered sequentially, incremented by 10.
Most other elements begin with an element-specific prefix, followed by a reference to the Witness Line Number, a sequential numbering of the numbered lines in the text. All printed lines are numbered, including stage directions and headers as well as spoken text.