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By recording wholly new readings, Table I emphasizes the originality of editors; it favors those who were early enough not to be anticipated, and it looks forward to their lasting contributions to the text of the play. Table II notices the reintroduction or unconventional use of an old reading, thereby giving a broader base for evaluating an edition's individuality. It looks backward as well as forward, showing where an editor may have gotten most of the readings he did not invent and, at the same time, which editions supplied the most readings for their successors. The second and third columns below list the

TABLE II

                                                                 

Edition	Highest unique	2nd highest	No. eds.	Highest total	2nd highest
Total variants	2583	2583		2583	2583
Q2	1991 Q1	--	1	1991 Q1	--
F1	364 Q1	186 Q2	2	2083 Q1	1905 Q2
F2	285 F1	27 Q2	3	2412 F1	1974 Q1
Q3	60 Q1	57 Q2	4	2149 Q1	2047 F1
F3	74 F2	17 Q2	5	2414 F2	2327 F1
F4	65 F3	27 Q2	5	2241 F3	2139 F2
Rowe I	181 F4	29 Q3	6	2121 F4	1871 F3
Rowe II	320 Rowe I	6 Q2	3	2558 Rowe I	2098 F4
Rowe III	7 Rowe II	6 Q3	8	2459 Rowe II	2456 Rowe I
Pope I	49 Rowe III	36 Q2	7	2111 Rowe III	2026 Rowe I
Pope II	281 Pope I	1 3 eds.	4	2555 Pope I	2102 Rowe III
Theobald I	10 Q3	7 Q2, Pope II	6	2284 Pope II	2267 Pope I
Theobald II	192 Theobald I	2 Q3	3	2539 Theo. I	2250 Pope II
Hanmer I	11 Theo. II	3 Q3	4	2386 Pope I	2384 Pope II
Warburton	22 Theo. II	4 Hanmer I	4	2501 Theo. II	2463 Theo. I
Theobald III	2 Q3, Warburton		4	2549 Theo. II	2509 Theo. I
Johnson	8 Q2	6 Warb.	5	2372 Warb.	2355 Theo. III
Capell	17 Q2, Johnson		9	1776 Warb.	1775 Theo. III
Hanmer II	55 Capell	48 Hanmer I	5	2418 Hanmer I	2235 Pope I, II
Johnson-Steevens I	80 Capell	38 Johnson	4	2162 Johnson	2075 Theo. III
Johnson-Steevens II	75 Capell	24 J-S I	4	2290 J-S I	2281 Capell
Rann	12 J-S II	7 Capell	5	2525 J-S II	2273 Capell
Malone	29 Capell	2 Q2, Rann	8	2400 J-S II	2389 Rann
Steevens-Reed I	27 Malone	3 Capell	4	2516 Malone	2386 J-S II
Steevens-Reed II	14 S-R I	None	1	2569 S-R I	2516 Malone
Eccles	9 Capell	2 3 eds.	8	2431 S-R II	2429 S-R I
Boswell-Malone	2 S-R II	1 4 eds.	5	2545 S-R II	2537 S-R I
Singer I	3 Q2, Rann		3	2518 S-R II	2515 B-M
Knight	3 Capell	2 Q2, Singer I	8	2396 B-M	2386 S-R II
Collier I	6 Knight	3 Johnson	10	2281 B-M	2261 S-R II
Hudson I	33 Collier I	4 Knight	9	2355 Collier I	2334 B-M

                                                               

Edition	Highest unique	2nd highest	No. eds.	Highest total	2nd highest
Singer II	8 Singer I, Collier I		5	2471 Singer I	2433 S-R II
Halliwell	16 Knight	7 Collier I	9	2303 Knight	2288 Hudson I
Dyce I	8 Collier I	4 Halliwell	9	2261 Hudson I	2234 B-M
Collier II	29 Collier I	6 Dyce I	7	2469 Collier I	2292 Hudson I
Staunton	7 Dyce I	6 Knight	7	2374 Knight	2319 Singer II
White I	2 Collier I, Dyce I		7	2407 Collier I	2345 Collier II
Old Cambridge I	15 Dyce I	14 Q2	12	2179 Dyce I	2131 Hudson I
Globe	81 OCam. I	1 3 eds.	4	2520 OCam. I	2164 Dyce I
Keightley	4 Halliwell	3 Johnson	10	2254 Singer II	2215 Singer I
Dyce II	66 Dyce I	4 Collier II, Keightley	6	2393 Dyce I	2144 Hudson I
Rolfe I	4 White I, Globe		5	2313 White I	2248 Globe
Delius	3 White I	1 3 eds.	4	2389 Collier I	2334 White I
Hudson II	19 Dyce II	4 OCam. I	12	2295 Dyce II	2226 Dyce I
White II	5 Globe	2 Q1, White I	5	2396 Globe	2354 OCam. I
Rolfe II	4 Rolfe I	None	1	2496 Rolfe I	2295 Delius
Old Cambridge II	1 Q1, OCam. I		2	2541 OCam. I	2503 Globe
Oxford	1 4 eds.		4	2310 White II	2305 Globe
Rolfe III	5 Rolfe II	2 Keightley	3	2526 Rolfe II	2450 Rolfe I
Old Arden	2 White II, Oxford		3	2390 Oxford	2345 White II
Neilson	8 Keightley	7 Rolfe III	11	2242 White II	2223 OArden
New Cambridge I	10 Neilson	7 Johnson	20	1856 Globe	1855 OCam. II
Ridley	10 Q1	4 Q3, NCam. I	8	2143 OArden	2114 OCam. II
Kittredge	26 Neilson	15 NCam. I	9	2143 Neilson	2060 Rolfe III
Neilson-Hill	19 Neilson	1 Kittredge	2	2496 Neilson	2210 OArden
Alexander	14 Kittredge	2 NCam. I	9	2214 Kittredge	2207 N-H
Sisson	5 Kittredge	3 Halliwell, Keightley	11	1963 NCam. I	1906 Alexander
New Arden	5 Johnson, Sisson		13	1971 Ridley	1939 Alexander
London	11 Kittredge	5 Sisson	5	2103 N-H	2098 OCam. II
New Yale	5 Q1	3 Q3	6	2100 NArden	1985 Ridley
New Cambridge II	163 NCam. I	1 Johnson	2	2528 NCam. I	2084 London
Evans	5 Kittredge	1 3 eds.	4	2181 N-H, Alexander

highest and second highest number of unique agreements that each edition has with its predecessors (no other previous edition collated has the reading); and the fourth column gives the number of preceding editions with which there is unique agreement. The fifth and sixth columns give the highest and second highest number of total agreements (unique and shared with one or more earlier or intervening editions) with any previous edition.

The columns of unique agreement suggest both the extent to which an editor used readings that were not yet established and the degree to which he influenced his successors. Editions from Hanmer II to Eccles borrowed from Capell, some of them quite heavily, although none was actually based upon Capell. Pope, Johnson, Capell, Malone, Singer I, Knight, and the Old Cambridge editors went back to Q2 for readings not used since 1619 (as they thought, since 1600); and Ridley and New Yale adopted readings not used since Q1. Many later editors have borrowed from Johnson: unique agreements are shown in the table for Capell, Johnson-Steevens I, Collier I, Keightley, New Cambridge I and II, and New Arden; and unique agreements not listed appear in Hanmer II (2), Johnson-Steevens II (3), Rann (1), Steevens-Reed I (1), Hudson I (2), Neilson (6), Sisson (2), and London (1). In the fourth column — the number of editions with which there is unique agreement — Capell (9), Rowe (8), and Malone (8) are higher than their predecessors or contemporaries; Old Cambridge I and Hudson II with 12 and Collier I and Keightley with 10 are high for the nineteenth century; and New Cambridge I is most eclectic by far with unique agreements with 20 editions, followed by New Arden (13) and Sisson and Neilson (11).

For the non-critical texts of the seventeenth century and for many critical editions (especially those that are early and those for which the figures in the table are high), the largest number of shared readings shows the edition used as base text.[14] However, as the text of the play becomes more established during the nineteenth century and there are more editions with less variation among them, this figure is a less reliable guide. The texts showing the least variation are often the second and third editions. Rowe II agrees with Rowe I in 2558 of

2583 instances, and there are, therefore, only 25 differences among the variants included in the tabulation. Similarly, Pope II differs from Pope I 28 times, Hanmer II from Hanmer I 165 times, Globe from Old Cambridge I 63 times, New Cambridge II from New Cambridge I 55 times, and so on.[15] However, Hudson II and White II are markedly independent of their first editions: the former agrees more frequently with four other editions than with Hudson I (2112 agreements), and the latter more frequently with six other editions than with White I (2159 agreements). Only four critical editions have fewer than 2000 agreements with any single predecessor: in the eighteenth century Capell with 1776 and in the twentieth New Cambridge I with 1856, Sisson with 1963, and New Arden with 1971. In Capell 807 readings (31 percent) had not appeared in the closest text (Warburton); and, according to Table I, 330 readings (13 percent) had not appeared anywhere previously.