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'The Bards' Work Altered, Professor Says
William Shakespeare would probably be surprised if he read some of his plays today, a KU professor said last night.
Charlton Himman, professor of English, spoke on "Shakespeare and the Newer Bibliography" at the Humanities Forum. He explained
Charlton Hinman
that changes in meaning, context and syntax have taken place in Shakespeare's works.
PROF. HINMAN CITED spelling differences, different words and the omission of words, as changing the play considerably, from such plays as "Timon of Athens" and "King Lear."
He said the third version of "King Lear," made in 1623, was more accurate than the first edition of 1608.
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Regarding the two editions of "King Lear," he said there were numerable changes in the 3,000 lines in each edition and said there were 800 verbal differences.
HE SAID ONE EDITOR would be right once, sometimes the other
"Despite the fact that it was the most remote from Shakespeare," Prof. Hinman said, "the folio (the latter edition) is by far the superior text."
would be correct and sometimes both versions appeared to be copies of Shakespeare's tragedy.
PROF. HINMAN IS THE successor to the late Sir Walter Greg as editor of the Shakespeare Quarto Facsimile for the Clarendon Press. He is the author of "The Printing and Proof Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare." a two volume work of 1,000 pages.
He said the determination of the accuracy of a version of Shakespeare must be based not only on the accuracy of the source of the copy, but also on the methods of reproduction.
Prof. Hinman said textual changes were made by copiers of Shakespeare's plays before Sir Greg's death in 1959 and are still taking place.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — (UPI) — The big flagpole at Mary Queen of Peace Catholic school was at half staff today. Police said a youth apparently climbed the pole and tied a rope to it and another youth tied the other end of the rope to a car—the pole was bent almost in half.
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