Talk:Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/All's Well That Ends Well

Source?

The edition that was used as the source for this play should be cited. Webbbbbbber 15:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Scarre

The literary crux involving the unknown word scarre is replaced here by something else. Can we at least make a note of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.44.83 23:59, 28 October 2008‎ (UTC)

The comment refers to Act 4, Scene 2, where Diana says: "I see that men make ropes in such a scarre, / That we'll forsake ourselves." In the version here, "scarre" has been replaced by "care". The term "scar" occurs four times in the text, with the same meaning as today; e.g. in the lines "A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so / belike is that." (Act 4, Scene 5) In versions of the play in which the spelling is not modernized, the term is "scarre", as in "A scarre nobly got, / Or a noble scarre, is a good liu'rie of honor, / So belike is that." But the sense of "scar" seems to make no sense in the lines spoken by Diana. Some sources (e.g. [1]) interpret it as a variant spelling of "scare".  --Lambiam 10:30, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Kicksy-wicksy

The version here has "kicksy-wicksy" (Act 2, Scene 3), while other versions have "kicky-wicky". Quoting the (controversial) Shakespeare scholar John Payne Collier, "why it has been altered to kicksy-wicksy nobody has explained".  --Lambiam 10:47, 18 October 2018 (UTC)