An Edition Of The Rover
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This project grew out of an exercise designed primarily to give
graduate students practical experience in the processes of textual
bibliography. It was continued and completed based on two beliefs:
first, that the errors found amoung extant editions are significant
enough to warrant further revis ....
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.... edited by Montague
Summers. Summers’ text was chosen because it is based primarily upon a
1724 collection of Behn’s dramatic pieces--a collection that, according
to Summers, is “by far the best and most reliable edition of the
collected theater.”
Most of the changes documented in the textual notes stem from
substantive discrepancies between these three texts. Often these
discrepancies are the result of words or phrases being inverted from one
edition to another. Note 44 ....
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