Remember, early editions would have been copied from Shakespeare's messy scripts or even verbally. He notes that in early editions of the play, the mark after "once" varied between a comma and a semicolon and suggests this is evidence of confusion among early scribes or proofreaders about how the line should be punctuated. Edward Farrison in his essay Horatio's Report to Hamlet (Modern Language Notes, June 1957) it is a printing mistake. ![]() Unfortunately, we are unlikely to ever know which - if either - is correct.Īccording to W. ![]() I have found two possible explanations for this.
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