NOTE XXVII.
[V. 5.] We have retained the stage direction of the Quartos and Folios, ‘they fight. Richard is slain,’ in preference to ‘they fight, and exeunt fighting’ of Mr Dyce, because it is probable from Derby’s speech, ‘From the dead temples of this bloody wretch,’ that Richard’s body is lying where he fell, in view of the audience.
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TRANSCRIBER’S ENDNOTE
Original printed spelling and grammar are retained, with exceptions noted below. Small caps LOOK LIKE THIS. The changes recommended in the [ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA] section have been applied. The transcriber created the cover image, and assigns it to the public domain.
It is impossible to render verse indents quite accurately in this electronic edition, which permits font-family and font-size and many other parameters to vary whimsically. Therefore verse indents are coded herein in terms of percentages of screen width. An original printed indent of 22em has been converted herein to 71.25% of total verse width, and an original indent of 2em is converted to 6.25%. Other indents are proportional.
Linenotes in the original printed book resided on the page with the line referenced. In this edition, linenotes have been converted to footnotes and have been moved to the ends of the respective plays. The footnote labels are shown with play number (in this book), Act number, and Scene number prefixed, coded a–f, a–e, and a–w, respectively. Thus a hypothetical line/footnote coded feb065 designates line 65 in the sixth play (King Richard III), Act 5, Scene 2. These codes are also inserted into the Scene headings, to aid the reader in navigation of the book. The original table of contents was modified, eliminating the original page numbers, not used in this edition, and adding links to the line/footnotes.
Pg. 276, l. [cca028:] "K. Ken" is changed to "K. Hen".
Pg. 318: two linenotes were missing line references. The first, “Sir John Somerville.]” seems to refer to line [cea007;] the second, “King E., Gloucester,]” seems to refer line [cea016;] anchors for these have been added.
In the fourth and fifth plays—“The First Part of the Contention &c.”, and “The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Good Henry the Sixt”—some words or phrases were printed below or above the appropriate text line, preceded by left parenthesis “(”. These have been moved to the correct line of text. Examples include ll. [dac113,] [dar067,] [eaa116,] [eal057,] &c.
Pg. 350, Scene III l. 1: the footnote “let vs]” was originally anchored to Scene II l. 81, but Scene II ends at line 80. The anchor has been changed to Scene III l. 1, i.e. line [dac001,] in the notation used in this edition.
Pg. 363, ll. [daf024]-daf033: these lines were printed as prose, but with a strange line break after the phrase “true heire to Lyonell Duke”. This line break has been removed in this edition.
Page 410, l. [eaa096:] the sentence ending punctuation was not printed, and none has been supplied herein. On pg. 410, l. [eaa129,] and in the linenote associated with it, “T‛was” was printed with a U+201B (single high reversed-9 quotation mark). This is retained herein, but may not render properly in some browsers or e-readers. Pg. 411, l. [eaa133:] the sentence “Then am I lawfull king” was printed without punctuation, and none has been supplied. Other instances of missing sentence end punctuation include l. [eae060.]
Page 424, [linenote to l. ead097:] it is not clear whether the hyphen in “Night-Owles Q3.” should be retained.
Page 428, l. [eae076:] “Prince,” changed to “Prince.”.
Page 458, l. [eas051:] the two full stops printed at the end of the line are retained.
Page 622, [linenote to l. fec130:] “Keigthley” changed to “Keightley”.