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Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare

Book · Language: English · Level: hard · Author: William Shakespeare · ≈ 172 min · 25761 words

Topics: класика

Beginning

Executive Director's Notes:

Barnardo. Who's there? Fran. Nay answer me: Stand & vnfold your selfe

Bar. Long liue the King

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As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words or letters they had often packed into a "cliche". . .this is the original meaning of the term cliche. . .and thus, being unwilling to unpack the cliches, and thus you will see some substitutions that look very odd. . .such as the exchanges of u for v, v for u, above. . .and you may wonder why they did it this way, presuming Shakespeare did not actually write the play in this manner. . . .

The answer is that they MAY have packed "liue" into a cliche at a time when they were out of "v"'s. . .possibly…

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Source: gutenberg.org/ebooks/1112

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