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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
64 Bar. See it staukes away.1.1.50
1891 dtn1
dtn1
64 staukes] Deighton (ed. 1891): “strides with a slow and stately step; A. S. stœcan, to walk warily.”
1962 mCraig
mCraig
64 staukes] Craig (1962-63, Box 3 ƒ B5, p. 80) says that stalks means “slips” away.
1985 cam4
cam4
82 martiall stauke] Edwards (ed. 1985): “The actor has to achieve a solemnity of movement that is both military and spectral.”
1987 oxf4
oxf4
64 staukes Hibbard (ed. 1987) notes the implicit SD (repeated in 82, and in 392-3) that tells actors how to perform the role, “as though [Sh. is] bent on making it crystal clear that the ghost is not the traditional figure of the sixteenth-century stage: ‘a filthy whining ghost, | Lapt in some foul sheet or a leather pilch, | [[which]] Comes screaming like a pig half-stickt, | And cries ‘Vindicta! revenge, revenge!’ (A Warning for Fair Women (1598-9) Ind. 54-7).
1993 OED
OED online 2nd edition:
64 staukes] stalk v. 1. intr. To walk softly, cautiously, or stealthily.
...
4. intr. To walk with stiff, high, measured steps, like a long-legged bird. Usually with disparaging notion, implying haughtiness, sullenness, indifference to one’s surroundings, or the like. 4. c. often said of ghosts, and fig. of quasi-personified maleficent agencies, as pestilence, famine, etc.
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2: standard
64 staukes] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “moves in a stiff or stately way; see [82], where Marcellus adds the notion that the Ghost’s walk has a military style about it.”
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