APPENDIX D
The Text of the Present Edition
The text of the present volume is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig. Craig's text has been carefully collated with the Shakespeare Folio of 1623, and the following deviations have been introduced:
1. The stage directions of the Folio have been restored. Necessary words and directions, omitted by the Folio, are added within square brackets.
2. Punctuation and spelling have been normalized to accord with modern English practice; e.g., warlike, afoot, sunset, Saint Albans, Tewkesbury, Phaethon (instead of war-like, a-foot, sun-set. Saint Alban's, Tewksbury, Phæthon). The words murder, murther, murder'd, murther'd, burden, burthen, etc., have not been normalized, the actual form employed by the Folio being in each case retained.
3. The following changes of text have been introduced, usually in accordance with Folio authority. The readings of the present edition precede the colon, while Craig's readings follow it.
I. i. 11 dangerous F: dangerously
78 It was F: 'Twas
83 that is (that's F): and that's
ii. 38 to F: unto
iv. 25 makes F: make
116 vizard-like F: visor-like
150 passions F: passion
II. i. 55 Hews . . . fells F: Hew . . . fell
83 fires F: fire
84 burns F: burn
170 moe F: more
182 march F: march amain
v. 81 an hundred F: a hundred
87 kills F: kill
110 his F: a
124 S. d. Alarums F: Alarum
vi. 2 whiles F: while
6 melts F: melt
100 in F: on
III. i. 17 thou was F: thou wast
ii. 28 Nay, then, whip me F: Nay, whip me, then
141 keeps F: keep
195 farther F: further
IV. i. 9 brother of Clarence F: brother Clarence
17 shall F: you shall
ii. 3 comes F: come
iii. 28 here is F: here's
29 parted F: parted last
v. 21 shipp'd (shipt F): ship
V. iv. 34 If case F: In case
75 my eye F: mine eyes
v. 26 sorts F: sort
27 ye F: you
60 Tower F: The Tower
78 Richard, hard-favour'd Richard F: Hard-favour'd Richard
vi. 51 indigested and F: indigest
vii. 25 that shall (that shalt F): thou shalt
44 befits F: befit