The Life of Henry the FiftAn exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. |
Contents
COPIES OF THE EARLY TEXTS | 2 |
WELCOME TO THESE SCRIPTS | 3 |
MAKING FULL USE OF THESE TEXTS | 4 |
Line Structure Changes Not Related to Problems of CastingOff | 5 |
The Special Problems Affecting What Are Known As Shared or Split Verse Lines | 5 |
The Unusual Single Split Line please see a caveat p xxxviii | 7 |
SENTENCE AND PUNCTUATION STRUCTURES | 7 |
Dropping a Line To Illustrate Fls Sentence Structure | 8 |
ACT SCENE AND LINE NUMBERING SPECIFIC TO THIS TEXT | 2 |
COMMON TYPESETTING PECULIARITIES OF THE FOLIO AND QUARTO TEXTS And How These Texts Present Them | 4 |
THE ENDING OF SPEECHES WITH NO PUNCTUATION OR PUNCTUATION OTHER THAN A PERIOD | 4 |
FOOTNOTE CODE shown in two forms the first alphabetical the second grouping the codes by topic | 6 |
FOOTNOTE CODING BY TOPIC | 6 |
ONE MODERN CHANGE FREQUENTLY NOTED IN THESE TEXTS | 7 |
FINALLY A BRIEF WORD ABOUT THE COMPOSITORS9 | 8 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT OF THE LIFE OF HENRY THE FIFT | 9 |
The Highlighting Of The Major Punctuation in These Texts | 8 |
PRACTICAL ONPAGE HELP FOR THE READER | 10 |
THE VISUAL SYMBOLS HIGHLIGHTING KEY ITEMS WITHIN THE FIRST FOLIO | 2 |
The Life of Henry the Fift | 1 |
THE UNEASY RELATIONSHIP OF FOLIO QUARTOS AND MODERN TEXTS | 111 |
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