description: Excerpt from A Few Notes on Shakespeare: With Occasional Remarks on the Emendation of the Manuscript-Corrector in Mr. Collier's Copy of the Folio 1632 In the course of the following remarks I have endeavoured to shew that sundry of the recently-published Emendations by the Manuscript-corrector of the folio 1632 are altogether erroneous; and I might have noticed a variety of others by that mysterious personage, which, I feel assured, are such as cannot stand the test of criticism. But the reader must not therefore suppose that I consider Mr. Collier's volume as useless to the future editors of Shakespeare: my opinion is, that, while it abounds with alterations ignorant, tasteless, and wanton, it also occasionally presents corrections which require no authority to recommend them, because common sense declares them to be right. Since these sheets were printed off, I have found that the quotation from Cotgrave at p. 71 was long ago adduced by Mr. Singer in his edition of Shakespeare; and that the emendation given as my own at p. 36 had previously occurred to the same gentleman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
language: English
title: A few notes on Shakespeare;: With occasional remarks on the emendations of the manuscript-corrector in Mr. Collier's copy of the folio 1632
titlecomplete: A few notes on Shakespeare;: With occasional remarks on the emendations of the manuscript-corrector in Mr. Collier's copy of the folio 1632
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