Much Ado About Nothing (1917) Yale/Appendix D
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 are based on those in the two original editions of the play, a few obvious errors in the latter being corrected and words there missing added within square brackets.
2. About half a dozen words are differently spelled: e.g., antic (antick), lantern (lanthorn), villainy (villany), haggard (haggerd).
3. Five changes of punctuation or wording have been made, viz.:
I. i. 46. him: he
I. i. 153 Leonato.— for Leonato:
II. iii. 92 marry. Dost for marry; dost
II. iii. 123 sit you— for sit you;
III. i. 101 day— for day,
V. i. 94 Scambling for Scrambling