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Article: The First Quarto of King Richard III.
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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The First Quarto of King Richard III. Ed. by PETER DAVISON. (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xiv+190 pp. [pound]35;$49.95.
Shakespeare's King Richard III is available to us in two early printed versions, the quarto (1597) and the folio (1623). These differ in roughly two thousand readings, and each has lines not in the other. For most of this century, editors have chosen to base editions on the fuller folio version. Now Cambridge includes in its series a modernized edition of the quarto subtended by an extensive textual apparatus (but lacking any lexical commentary). Cambridge's inclusion of the ...