II
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.