The Reverend Matthew Albert Bayfield (1852 1922) published this
study at the end of his life after a long career as classical
scholar, editor of Greek tragedies and headmaster of several public
schools. He gives an account of the structure and characteristic
features of Shakespeare's dramatic verse and argues that it has
been fundamentally misunderstood by other scholars. In particular,
he analyses the use of contractions or abbreviations found in the
Folio and Quartos and continued in the editions of his own time. He
weighs up which of the contractions familiar from many editions
were actually Shakespeare's, and what that reveals about how
Shakespeare might have intended his prose and verse to be spoken.
Bayfield's many appendices evaluating the metre of specific lines
and his detailed linguistic analysis remain thought-provoking for
modern editors and scholars of Shakespeare.
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