“His Epistle I expected any time these three yeares”. Nine words that open the sentence the late and highly influential Shakespearean editor, R. B. McKerrow, chose (unbelievably) to hide—in a sentence he quotes from twice—in order to directly attribute the surrounding text to a random, unheard of, Cambridge barber.
Tag: scholarship
A BEATLE DIDN’T SAY THAT! Lewisohn’s lab-created quotes
*REPOST OF THE ORIGINAL TROUBLE-STARTER.* “My personal standard is that If someone represents, ‘A Beatle said this,’ it better damn well be something a Beatle said.”
