The Works of Thomas Middleton, Vol. 7 of 8 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Middleton, Vol. 7 of 8 There are extant at least three early undated editions of A Game at Chess. Two of them have the engraved title-page of which a reduced facsimile is here given on the opposite page; there is also an engraved title-page, but less interesting and with fewer figures, prefixed to the other edition. The text of the two editions which contain the more elaborate title-page is very corrupt; but the other edition, which I have designated A., is fairly accurate. A contributor to the Shakespeare Society Papers (pt. ii. pp. 103-6)was in possession of an edition dated 1625. Three early MS. copies of the play are preserved: one in the British Museum, dated 1624 (Lansdown Ms.690); another, imperfect, at Bridgewater House; and a third in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Dyce collated the three undated 4 tos, the Lansdown MS., and the Bridgewater Ms. I have had before me 4 to A., one of the two other undated 4 tos (which I designate B.), and the Lansdown MS.; I have also looked through the Trinity College MS., which does not differ materially from A. and Lansdown MS. I have not seen the third undated 4 to; but from Dyces notes it appears to agree faithfully with B. The readings of the Bridgewater Ms. are taken from Dyces notes. Some twenty years ago the late Mr. C. J. Stewart, bookseller, of King William Street, Strand, advertised for sale a MS. copy of A Game at Chess which (according to his description) differed most materially from the printed copies and the other MSS. It is in fact, Stewart stated, the original draught of the work, and it contained a dedication "To the Worthilie Accomplished Ax, William Hammond," beginning - This, which nor Stage nor Stationers Stall can showe, The Common Eye may wish for, but ne re knowe." T he dedication is signed "A Servant to youre Vertues, T. M." I have hunted for this Ms. high and low, but I have not been able to discover who is the present possessor of it. My plan has been to take the most correct 4 to, A., as the basis of this edition. Where the readings of the other old copies have any interest or importance, I have recorded them; but 1 have not chosen to waste my own time and the readers by drawing attention to every trifling variation. For instance, in the Introduction, 1. 15, where A. and the other 4 tos give "´Tis not five years," I have not thought it necessary to mention that the Lansdown MS. reads "If´s not five years." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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