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http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=About_the_Folio_Differences About the Folio Differences - Revision history 2026-05-31T04:15:50Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.22.1 http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php?title=About_the_Folio_Differences&diff=1787&oldid=prev Administrator at 15:15, 8 March 2014 2014-03-08T15:15:36Z <p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:15, 8 March 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 76:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 76:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; 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Consideration of the actions that are reasonably associated with the various playtext words is an aspect that can&#039;t be neglected in any good presentation of &#039;&#039;Hamlet.&#039;&#039;&#160; The associated gesture for a word in the playscript can often be a powerful indicator of which wording is correct to the author, between the Second Quarto and the First Folio.&#160; After all, Shakespeare himself wrote, using his Hamlet character: &quot;suit the action to the word, the word to the action.&quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; 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Not every difference between Q2 and F1 is marked in the lines that are quoted, only the relevant words are shown in {braces} or [brackets].  In most cases, the quoted line is basically the line as it appears in Q2.  I sometimes shorten the quoted line, and use an ellipsis to mark that.
 
Not every difference between Q2 and F1 is marked in the lines that are quoted, only the relevant words are shown in {braces} or [brackets].  In most cases, the quoted line is basically the line as it appears in Q2.  I sometimes shorten the quoted line, and use an ellipsis to mark that.
  
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