Présentation de l'éditeur
Date of Play Lavis Labours Lost first appeared in print, in Quarto, in 1598, with the following title: A IP leasant Craceited Comedie |C alled, |L oues labors lost |A sit was presented before her Highnes |this last Christmas. |N ewly corrected and augmented |B yW. Shakespere. |[O rnamental device] |I mprinted at London by W. W. I for Cutbert Burby. |1598. Two points may be noticed at once that this is the earliest play published withS hakespeare sname on the title; and that the words newly corrected and augmented seem to imply an earlier edition from which this differs appreciably. They can hardly be held with fairness to refer merely to the manner in which the manuscript or prompters copy, or copies, had been dealt with. And the corrections and augmentations, we are distinctly told, are by W. Shakespeare. The next publicaticm of Lovis Labour sL ost was in the First Folio of 1623, where it is the seventh in order among the comedies. This text is distinguished from the Quarto by a considerable number of mostly unimportant variations generally for the better. These will be dealt with later in the present I ntroduction. Sidney Lee classes this Quarto amongst those in which comparatively few faults are visible, in his Introduction to the Folio facsimile. The Folio divides the play into A cts, which is not done in the Quarto, The Folio is the more carefully printed. It is also the most authoritative. In 1631 a second edition of the Quarto was printed from the Folio, by W. S.
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