Shakespeare, W: King Henry V - William Shakespeare

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Résumé :
Excerpt from King Henry V: The First Quarto, 1600

It wrll be generally felt, I imagrne, that these two plarn and undenrable rnstances (due to Mr Daniel's careful rngenurty) of ennssz'on on the part of the Quarto of 11nes or scenes found 1n the Folio, really settle, once and for all, the long - debated questron of precedence After thrs proof that the Folro versron was 1n exrstence before the Quarto was prrnted, rt rs clearly 1nrpossrble to consider the latter a first sketch One ventures to wonder how such a belref could ever have obtarned at all. Is rt credrble that by 1599, that rs, after wrrtrng plays for perhaps nrne or ten years, Shakspere would have done no better than thrs, even rn a first draft? I at least cannot thrnk so.

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