t reason for his doing so. Exceptionally, in special circumstances, one or more of the repetitions
may be due to mistakes made by the printer, by the transcriber or by the
stenographer; but it need hardly be pointed out that actors are liable to make
such mistakes to a much greater extent than any of the persons mentioned.
And to the actor applies what has been said of the author: now and then he
will be likely to repeat intentionally, with the express purpose of making a
deeper impression, even if it is not prescribed by his part. As an instance of
this may be mentioned the Nunry repetition, five times in the Q but eight times
in the Q S. A more striking example is given' by the anonymous writer in his
above-cited article in The Edinburgh Review, on p. 368:
...... we have seen Edmund Kean, in acting this scene [Olh. III, 31, run the word
'blood' [III, 3, 45] through half a dozen repetitions, each uttered with a more malig-
nant burst of hatred, and accompanied by a fiercer gesture, imitating the anticipated
act of vengeance.
INTERJECTIONS may, if desired, be reckoned among the repetitions. The
Q S contains a large number of them which do not occur in the Q, e.g. the
following in the first and second scenes of the first act.
QS 9 o Q I, x, 6 QS2330 QI, 2,77
,, 76 Mary ,, 79 ,, 240 O ,, x84
,, xo80 ,, I43 ,, 242 Why ,, 85
,, I99 O ,, I, 2, I46 ,, e49 Ha, ha, ,, 9 I
,, 220 O ,, 63 ,, 303 Yea ,, 237
QS 306 O Q I, 2, 239
,, 323 O ,, 254
,, 325 Well ,, 255
Presumably following Mommsen, Professor Herford too ascribes these excla-
mations to the rev
