I'm done editing our version of Shakespeare's Sonnets (I still have to work on A Lover's Complaint -shshhhhhhhh!), and it was astronomically interesting.
After making a discovery about denialists in the introduction I wrote, I may have solved a puzzle that was generated by a massive misprint. I shan't pretend that I am right, but I will declare that my conclusion makes a lot more sense than anything that was corrected before.
A thing that I realized, as I was fighting with the original texts in the Quarto, is that most of the spelling mistakes that are made today look like the way things were printed in 1609! "It was better then I thought" and other oddities like that.
It's fascinating to see that the rules that took so long to be created have almost disappeared since people started texting and using the Internet!
Perhaps the spirit of George Eld (the printer of the Quarto) floated inside the heads of too many people...
Modern typos are still weird, but the parallel with 1609 is properly nutty.
I just thought I'd share...
2 comments:
looking forward to reading you work :-) I like the sonnets and have some up above my desk (or I did until small minded folk said it was a fire risk) plan to put some up in my new office soon, and I will take pictures!
Any date yet and a place to buy?
Thank you!! I'm rather happy with my editorial choices for sonnets 73, 129, and 146. ^_^
I should see (hopefully!!!!!) the bank guy to open the company's account this week - or the next, which means that the website could be launched a fortnight later... and I still have to work on A Lover's Complaint. If all goes well, I should be able to send the baby to be registered around the same time next month.
I'll send you one then. Paper, or PDF... and then you can tell the world that you were the first to have a copy of it. *wink* We'll have to "plot" that.
I have the website on Xampp, and I think I'll train on moving it from there to a test website before I move it to its final destination. If I do do that, I'll give you the address.
Shakespeare in the office is good for the brain. Do resist, and put some up again soon! ^_^
Do you have a favourite one?
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