The New Inn (The Swan Theatre plays) Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES The present edition includes whatever has been considered of value in the notes of preceding editions. It has been the intention in all cases to acknowledge facts and suggestions borrowed from such sources, whether quoted verbatim, abridged, or developed. Notes signed W. are from Whalley, G. from Gifford, C. from Cunningham. For other abbreviations the Bibliography should be consulted. References to this play are by act, scene, and line of the Text; other plays of Jonson are cited from the Gifford-Cunningham edition of 1875. The references are to play, volume, and page. Title-page. Gifford did not print a separate title-page for the play, but gave that of Whalley in his introductory note. Cunningham remarks on this : ' In the concluding lines, " Now at last set at liberty to the Readers, his Majesty's servants and Subjects to be judg'd of." The [sic] word of is unmeaningly added by the editors. Every word in this title was most carefully studied, and the little volume watched through the press, with more even than Jonson's usual vigilance.' It will be sufficient to state here that this was not the only variation from the original title-page : see Introduction, pp. v?vii. COMOEDT. This form of the word is used regularly throughout the 1616 folio ; in the title-pages of the three plays in the 1640 folio we find cotnedie, Moft negligently play'd. Jonson in his disappointment and rage includes the players with the spectators as deserving reproach. We have had no record left us, to tell in what way or for what reasons the King's Company made a particular failure in the performance of their parts. The Kings Sernants. This company of actors was licensed in 1586 as Leicester's Company, and underwent various changesof name op to 1603, in which year it was taken unde...Read More