The Cambridge Shakespeare was published in nine volumes between
1863 and 1866. Its careful editorial principles, attractive page
design and elegant typography have withstood the test of time. This
text was based on a thorough collation of the four Folios and of
all the Quarto editions of the separate plays, the base text being
the 1623 Folio. The critical apparatus appears at the foot of the
page, but for passages where the Quarto differs significantly the
entire Quarto text appears in small type after the received text.
Notes at the end of each play explain variants, emendations, and
passages of unusual difficulty or interest. Grammar and metre were
generally left unchanged by the editors, but punctuation was
normalised and nineteenth-century orthography was adopted instead
of the variable Elizabethan spelling. In a bold move for a
Victorian edition, the editors restored various 'profane'
expressions where metre or sense demanded it.
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