Search -
The Hamlet 3x2 Text Research Toolset 2nd Edition
The Hamlet 3x2 Text Research Toolset 2nd Edition Author:William Shakespeare The Hamlet 3x2 Text Research Toolset is designed to display the three significant texts of Shakespeare s Hamlet in facsimile and in modern type. In the modern type versions, the long text of the 2nd Quarto (Q2) serves as the control text in the center position in a parallel arrangement on each page. Folio vs. Q2 textual vari... more »ants are highlighted in red type in the Folio text, and Q1 vs. Q2 variants are highlighted in blue type in the Q1 text.Experience with the original 3x2 determined that certain types of textual variants could more effectively be analyzed if concordance arrows were added to the color-coded texts, connecting lines of dialogue in Q1 to their concordant lines in Q2. An appendix includes 24 illustrations, involving parallel color-coded variant passages, concordance arrows, and editorial commentary. These illustrations include 11 garbled or re-ordered passages, 8 of the large blocks of text unique to Q2, three large blocks unique to the Folio text, and split pentameters of two kinds, which are examples of textual variants that are particularly easy to identify using the parallel texts with color-coded variants.The 2nd edition also includes an expanded discussion of the casting off process, page signatures, and the typographical analysis of selected Folio passages.« less