. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. e every variation between the copies would encumber the page, with little , we think, can be more imsatisfactory than this mode of proceeding; and Malone gets outof the difliculty by depreciating the folio at every turn, whilst he in reality adopts all its more im-portant readings. He says, several alterations were made in this play, evidently unauthorized byShakspeare. These are the alterations which, no doubt, he passes over sub silentio. We adopt,once for all, the text of the folio, with the exception of three or four passages, w
. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. e every variation between the copies would encumber the page, with little , we think, can be more imsatisfactory than this mode of proceeding; and Malone gets outof the difliculty by depreciating the folio at every turn, whilst he in reality adopts all its more im-portant readings. He says, several alterations were made in this play, evidently unauthorized byShakspeare. These are the alterations which, no doubt, he passes over sub silentio. We adopt,once for all, the text of the folio, with the exception of three or four passages, where we follow thequarto, and state our reasons for this course. In our foot-notes we have not, adopting the text ofthe folio, indicated all the variations in the quartos; but we have indicated every passage in whichour text is a variation from the received text, and this for the purpose that, when the critical studentencoimters a reading different from that to which he is accustomed, he may compare and judge forliiinself. 23G KING IIICHAIID [Richard III ] Costume. The Monk of Croyland informs us that the new fashion Edward IV. chose for his last statedresses was to have very full hanging sleeves, like a monks, lined with most sumptuous furs, andso rolled over his shoulders as to give his tall person an air of peculiar grandeur. This fashionwas continued during the remainder of the century, and was not altogether abandoned in the reignof Henry VIII. By a sumptuary law enacted in the last year of Edwards reign, we find alsothat purple cloth of gold and silk of a purple colovu- were confined to the use of the royal family,while none under the degree of a duke might wear cloth of gold of tissue. Infeiior noblemen wererestricted to plain cloth of gold, knights to velvet, esquires to satin, &c. Short gowns and upper-dresses of various descriptions were worn at this time, with long sleeves, having an opening in front,through which the arm came, leaving the outer sleeve to hang
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