Shakespeare's a Midsummer-Night's Dream (Classic Reprint)

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Dream, the text of which has reached us in a state of comparative correctness and purity, there are passages which are admittedly corrupt, but which have hitherto defied the efforts of all the critics and commentators to fix and settle. The true course for an editor to adopt in the matter Of textual criticism, is neither the despairing attitude of rigid conservatism, nor yet the wild and whirl ing freedom of exsuicate and blown surmises, but rather that sober boldness and spirit of inquiry commingled of blood and judgement, the result, so far as he can attain it, of that nicety of knowledge and judgement of which Dr. Furness speaks. To make his text and textual notes of any permanent value, he must at least stamp them with his own individuality. He must, in the words of the admonition beheld by Spenser's Britomart on the yron dores in the castle of Busyrane (faerie Queene, III. C. Xi.

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