Monday, February 21, 2011

Did Shakespeare Ever Think Twice?

But when Fortinbras's band of "lawless resolutes" become "landless resolutes," we are encountering a subtle rethinking of motives. And when the quarto's "What's Hecuba to him, or he to her," becomes the folio's "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba," we are dealing, I believe, with the writer choosing to break his perfectly good iambic pentameter line for the sake of something more powerful. - Did Shakespeare Ever Think Twice?

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