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notes
For Parts I, II, III, IV, V, and VI of this series, see Studies in Bibliography, vols. VIII, IX, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV.
For a summary of the relevant facts in the case, plus some additional evidence based on patterns of imagery, see Kenneth Muir, "Shakespeare's Hand in The Two Noble Kinsmen," Shakespeare Survey, 11 (1958), 50-59.
Dates cited for Shakespeare's plays, here and in what follows, are those adopted by W. W. Greg, The Shakespeare First Folio (1955).
Notably in plays believed to have been set from foul papers or an authorial fair copy. with regard to the plays listed in the linguistic table below, this includes All's Well, Antony, Timon, Coriolanus, and the quarto text of Troilus. See Greg (First Folio, pp. 342, 353, 403, 411, 407). Regarding the copy for the quarto text of Troilus, however, see Walker (Textual Problems, p. 82).
My figures and Prof. Partridge's do not always agree, in part because he has included the Prologue and Epilogue in his count, while I have regularly omitted these from my tabulations in the present study.
R. A. Foakes, "On the First Folio Text of Henry VIII," Studies in Bibliography, XI (1958), 57. The shares of the two compositors as set forth in Foakes's table (p. 55) are confirmed by Hinman, whose findings affect only the identity of the compositor wrongly identified by Foakes as Compositor A. Sigs. x4r and x4v (the last leaf of the play), unaccounted for in Foakes's table, according to Hinman were set by this compositor.
Everyone who has counted the 'em's in the play has arrived at a different total. Williams found 66; Partridge, counting the 2 in the Epilogue, found 64; I, not counting the Epilogue, find 63.
I wish to acknowledge a double debt of gratitude to Professor Fredson Bowers who has watched over this study since it was begun as a doctoral dissertation in 1952, and who, as the Editor of these Studies, has allowed me access to their pages over the past seven years. I wish as well to express my thanks to Dr. M. C. Bradbrook of Girton College, Cambridge, who with her inimitably wise counsel helped to guide my research into the right ways when it was in its earliest stages. For any lapses in judgment, or any arithmetical errors of calculation which this study may ever be found to exhibit, I alone, it goes without saying, am responsible.
Abbreviations. (Statistics for Shakespeare's plays listed in the table above are based on the text of the 1623 Folio with the exception of Troilus and Cressida, figures for which are based on the text of the 1609 quarto.) Ant. Antony and Cleopatra; AWEW, All's Well that Ends Well; Cor. Coriolanus; Cym. Cymbeline; Meas., Measure for Measure; Temp., The Tempest; Tim. Timon of Athens; Tro., Troilus and Cressida; WT, The Winter's Table.
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