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REPLY1849

"CLOUDS" OR SHROUDS, IN SHAKESPEARE.

By J. PAYNE COLLIER.

I quite agree with your correspondent D.N.R., that there never has been an editor of Shakespeare capable of doing him full justice. I will go farther and say, that there never will be an editor capable of doing him any thing like justice. I am the most "modern editor" of Shakespeare, and I am the last to pretend that I am at all capable of doing him justice: I should be ashamed of myself if I entertained a notion so ridiculously presumptuous. What I intended was to do him all the justice in my power, and that I accomplished, however imperfectly. It struck me that the best mode of attempting to…

Topics: Shakespearean Text Restoration, Literature, Editorial Practices

Locations: British Museum, Oxford, Cambridge