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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
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967 Rey. Well my Lord. Exit {Rey}.2.1.70
1858 col3
col3: sing2
967 Collier (ed. 1858): “Mr. Singer, by the erroneous division of a line, here represents Polonius, and not Reynaldo, as making his Exit: the mistake detects itself in the next words.”
1982 ard2
ard2: staging idea
967 Exit] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “Most eds. assume that Farewell must precede Reynaldo’s exit. But the order of the original texts makes good dramatic sense. Polonius’s first farewell is at 962. But he follows Reynaldo with his afterthoughts and is still talking as the latter leaves the stage, by which time Ophelia has entered from the other side, to confront her father as he turns.”
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2: ard2
967 Exit Rey] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Jenkins defends the placing of Reynaldo’s ’Exit before Polonius’ Farewell (in all three texts) on the grounds that characteristically the latter is thinking of further things to say.”
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