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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman

For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.

288 This must be so: we pray you throw to earth	1.2.106

1747 warb

warb

288 throw to earth] Warburton (ed. 1747): “Into the grave with your father.”

1929 trav

trav

288 throw to earth] Travers (ed. 1929), with a reference to 251, associates earth with dust to which dust returns.

1939 kit2

kit2

288 we] Kittredge (ed. 1939): "The royal we appropriately introduces the sentence relating to succession to the throne. In [294] the more familiar and affectionate I is fitly used. Then in [296], the formal style of royalty is resumed in the expression of a request that is in fact a command."

1950 Tilley

Tilley

288-9 we . . . woe] Tilley (1950, C 921): “Past cure past care [. . . ] 1593 Greene Mamillia II, p. 154: Rather remember the old proverb, not so common as true, past cure, past care, without remedie, without remembrance.”

1982 ard2

ard2:

288 throw to earth] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “The phrasing suggests that he should bury it (along with his father).”

1987 oxf4

oxf4

288 throw to earth] Hibbard (ed. 1987): apparantly the king refers to wrestling.

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2: performance

288 This . . . so] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “In Peter Brook’s 2000 production, the King repeated these words as he accepted his death-wound in the final scene.”

ard3q2

288 we . . . earth] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “perhaps a subjunctive (’we pray that you may throw to earth’), or more likely an imperative (’we require that you throw to earth’)”

ard3q2: contra oxf4

288 throw to earth] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Hibbard suggests a metaphor from wrestling, but, given the talk of dust at [251], the King may be saying ’bury your grief’. The phrase also evokes the Christian burial service ’earth to earth’.”