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The Tempest
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Ernest Renan, Caliban, suite de la Tempête, drame philosophique (1878).

Robert Browning, 'Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island,' in Dramatis Personæ (1864).


APPENDIX D

The Text of the Present Edition

The text of the present volume is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig, except for the following deviations:

1. The stage-directions of the first Folio have been restored as far as possible, with necessary modern additions in square brackets.

2. The spelling of a few words is altered, as boatswain for boson; bowsprit for boresprit; burthen for burden; mo for more; o' for of; th' for the; farther for further; villainous for villanous.

3. A number of unnecessary commas have been omitted.

4. The following passages. [Craig's readings are placed after the colon.]

I. ii. 7 creature: creatures

146 butt: boat

173 princess: princes

248 made thee no: made no

285 he, that: he that

327 Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,: Shall forth at vast of night, that they may work

381 Burthen dispersedly: 'Bow, wow': [Burden: Bow, wow, dispersedly. (And so similarly in similar cases.)

485 nor: or

II. i. 99 Gon. Ay: Alon. Ay?