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Excerpt from A Midsommer Nights Dreame
Chauc ER and Spenser have been privileged to reach the modern reader in the forms of speech befitting them and belonging to their time. Shake speare, as it happens, has not hitherto been permitted to become familiar in the quaint Elizabethan setting befitting him and betraying the conditions belonging to the first publication of the Plays. Yet Chaucer is, of course, far more archaic, and Spenser is, though so little earlier, much more affected and remote in style, than Shakespeare. Without as much need for it, Shakespeare has been modernized to suit each succeeding epoch. Yet - barring only the long f for r, the interchangeable i and j, a and 0, an occasional for tb, and {bi for tbew, the sign of ab breviation commonly used in printing of that age in order to get in all the words of a line without over lapping - there is practically nothing in the form of the first complete text of the Plays published in 1623, and commonly called the First Folio, particularly if these few changes mentioned be made, which should cause the present-day reader to stumble in reading it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
