Titus Andronicus (1926) 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 of the First Folio have been restored, necessary modern additions being enclosed in square brackets. Passages of text for which the Folio offers no equivalent are similarly bracketed.
2. Many minor changes in punctuation have been made, and the spelling of certain words normalized in accordance with English usage; e.g. everything, swoll'n, villainy. The old forms, murther, murtherer, etc., which occur in the Folio beside murder, murderer, etc., have been retained.
3. The following alterations, most of them reversions to the readings of the First Folio, have been made in the text, the reading of the present text preceding the colon, and that of Craig following it:
I. i. 108 sons F: son
126 T'appease F: to appease
154 grudges F: drugs
487 sware F: swore
II. i. 25 Hollo! F: Holla!
iii. 55 whom F: who
126 braves F: she braves
iv. 17 Hath F: have
III. i. 12 these, tribunes F: these, these, tribunes
36 And bootless,: All bootless
225 flow F: blow
259 my F: thy
ii. 9 Who, when F: And when
60 'But!' How, if that fly had a father and mother?: But how if that fly had a father and a mother?
85 begin F: begins
IV. i. 45 so busily she turns the leaves! Help her. F: see how busily she turns the leaves! [Helping her.
77 ye F: you
129 Revenge the heavens F: Revenge, ye heavens,
ii. 63 she is F: she's
150 Lord F: lord
164 ye F: you
iii. 2 let me see F: now let me see
8 Haply F: Happily
67 Ha, ha! F: Ha!
117 an humble suppliant F: a humble suppliant
118 given it the emperor F: given it to the emperor
iv. 2 emperor in Rome F: emperor of Rome
30 Th'effects F: The effects
61 Arm, my lords. F: Arm, arm, my lord.
71 begins F: begin
92 food F: feed
V. i. 61 And if F: An if
88 luxurious F: luxurious and
119 sounded F: swounded
ii. 30 th'infernal F: the infernal
40 offenders F: offender
49 globes F: globe
50 Provide thee F: Provide
62 Rape F: Rapine
137 bide F: abide
196 Progne F: Procne
203 might F: may
205 I'll F: I will
iii. 1 'tis F: it is
11 my F: mine
38 enforc'd F: enforced
48 hast F: hast thou
52 now is F: is now
68 uproars F: uproar
96 This F: then
109 I am turn'd forth F: I am the turn'd forth