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- Index of Shakespeare files
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- NOTES - Many of these files exist in two versions (or, in one case,
- three). As you may be aware there is often disagreement about which is
- the 'original' version of a work as they have been amended and altered
- many times over the past four hundred years, often by the playwrite
- himself in revision. Also the spelling and punctuation in common usage
- in the sixteenth century was somewhat different from that used today. A
- third consideration is that the pronunciation of words has changed so
- that a phrase which 'scanned' in Shakespeare's time would sound awkward
- now, and so sometimes phrases have become slightly changed with time
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- The first version is therefore the 'simplest'. Quite often this means
- that contempory spelling is used and the text may be slightly altered
- from the original. Where a second version exists this may be rather
- more 'authoritive' and could be taken from original (or closer to the
- original) texts. For use in schools I would recommend that the first
- version should be used. It will be easier to understand and might
- relieve the Teacher from the tedious task of explaining why it was OK
- for Shakespeare to spell that way, but.....
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- As an example, the following extracts are taken from the first and
- second versions of 'Sonnets' respectively.
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- When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
- And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
- Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,
- Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
- Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,
- Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
- To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
- Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
- How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,
- If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
- Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'
- Proving his beauty by succession thine!
- This were to be new made when thou art old,
- And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
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- WHen fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,
- And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,
- Thy youthes proud liuery so gazed on now,
- Wil be a totter'd weed of smal worth held:
- Then being askt,where all thy beautie lies,
- Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies;
- To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes,
- Were an all-eating shame,and thriftlesse praise.
- How much more praise deseru'd thy beauties vse,
- If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine
- Shall sum my count,and make my old excuse
- Proouing his beautie by succession thine.
- This were to be new made when thou art ould,
- And see thy blood warme when thou feel'st it could,
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- AllsWell_1 Alls Well the Ends Well - version 1
- AllsWell_2 Alls Well the Ends Well - version 2
- AntonyCleo Antony and Cleopatra
- AsYouLike1 As You Like It - version 1
- AsYouLike2 As You Like It - version 2
- ComedyErr1 The Comedy of Errors - version 1
- ComedyErr2 The Comedy of Errors - version 2
- Coriolanus Coriolanus
- Cymbeline Cymbeline
- GentVerona The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Henry_4_1a Henry IV part 1 - version 1
- Henry_4_2a Henry IV part 2 - version 1
- Henry_4_3a Henry IV part 3 - version 1
- Henry_4_1b Henry IV part 1 - version 2
- Henry_4_2b Henry IV part 2 - version 2
- Henry_4_3b Henry IV part 3 - version 2
- Henry_5_1 Henry V - version 1
- Henry_5_2 Henry V - version 2
- Henry_6_1a Henry VI part 1 - version 1
- Henry_6_2a Henry VI part 2 - version 1
- Henry_6_3a Henry VI part 3 - version 1
- Henry_6_1b Henry VI part 1 - version 2
- Henry_6_2b Henry VI part 2 - version 2
- Henry_6_3b Henry VI part 3 - version 2
- Henry_8_1 Henry VIII - version 1
- Henry_8_2 Henry VIII - version 2
- Henry_8_3 Henry VIII - version 3
- J_Caesar_1 Julius Caesar - version 1
- J_Caesar_1 Julius Caesar - version 2
- KingJohn King John
- KingLear King Lear
- LoverCompl A Lovers Complaint
- LoveLabLos1 Love's Labour's Lost - version 1
- LoveLabLos2 Love's Labour's Lost - version 2
- Macbeth (The Scottish Play)
- Measure Measure for Measure
- Merchant_1 The Merchant of Venice - version 1
- Merchant_2 The Merchant of Venice - version 2
- MidSummer A Midsummer Night's Dream
- MuchAdo_1 Much Ado About Nothing - version 1
- MuchAdo_2 Much Ado About Nothing - version 2
- Othello Othello
- PassPilgri The Pasionate Pilgrim
- Pericles Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- PhoenixTur The Phoenix and the Turtle
- RapeLucrec The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard_2a King Richard The Second - version 1
- Richard_2b King Richard The Second - version 2
- Richard_3a King Richard The Third - version 1
- Richard_3b King Richard The Third - version 2
- RomeoJul_1 Romeo and Juliet - version 1
- RomeoJul_2 Romeo and Juliet - version 2
- Sonnets1 The Sonnets - version 1
- Sonnets2 The Sonnets - version 2
- Tempest The Tempest
- Timon_1 Timon of Athens - version 1
- Timon_2 Timon of Athens - version 2
- TitusAndr1 Titus Andonicus - version 1
- TitusAndr2 Titus Andonicus - version 2
- Troilus Troilus and Cressida
- TwelfthNig Twelfth Night
- T_Shrew_1 The Taming of the Shrew - version 1
- T_Shrew_2 The Taming of the Shrew - version 2
- Various Includes the Passionate Pilgrim, Soinnets to Sundry Notes
- of Music, Love's Answer, and The Phoenix and the Turtle
- VenusAdon1 Venus and Adonis - version 1
- VenusAdon2 Venus and Adonis - version 2
- WintrTal_1 A Winter's Tale - version 1
- WintrTal_2 A Winter's Tale - version 2
- WiveWinds1 The Merry Wives of Windsor - version 1
- WiveWinds2 The Merry Wives of Windsor - version 2
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