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The Tragedy of Cymbeline

in 1923 Edward H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe added it to their repertoire.[1]

APPENDIX C

The Text of the Present Edition

The text of the present edition is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, based on that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig. Stage directions, when not bracketed, are from the First Folio; bracketed stage directions are modern.

In the following list of variants from the Oxford text, the readings of this edition precede, and Craig's readings follow, the colon. The Folio authority is given wherever involved.


I. i. 116 cere: sear Ff

I. i. 117 bands: bonds Ff

I. i. 132 heap'st Ff: heap'st instead

I. iv. 68 constant-qualified: constant, qualified Ff

I. iv. 151 a friend Ff: afraid

I. iv. 177 understand Ff: understand that

I. v. 68 change thou chancest: chance thou changest Ff

I. v. 83 primroses: prime-roses Ff

I. vi. 22 Imo. reads Ff : Imo.

I. vi. 24 trust Ff: truest

I. vi. 122 self exhibition Ff1, 4: self-exhibition Ff2, 3

II. ii. 32 sense Ff: senses

II. iii. 126 foil Ff: soil

II. iv. 6 fear'd Ff: sear'd

II. iv. 21 order'd Ff: ordered

II. iv. 24 mingled Ff2, 3, 4 (F1 wing-led): winged

II. iv. 75 So rarely Ff : rarely

II. v. 2 bastards Ff: bastards all

II. v. 27 may be named Ff2, 3, 4 (Fl name): man may name

  1. For details concerning the various stage adaptations of the play see Fr. Lücke, Über Bearbeitungen von Shakespeares 'Cymbeline' (Rostock diss., 1909).