A heinous and surprising lack of editing, spell-checking and/or proofreading in this highly-respected version of Shakespeare’s works, in an updated edition containing individual introductions to the plays supplied by various academics from the University of Glasgow. (It isn’t clear who wrote this contribution, nor who edited the volume, the original editor having died in 1969.) The mangle was firmly rejected by Word, WordPerfect and the Firefox dictionary. As Dr Faustus says, ‘Next thing you know, King Lear will be described as a “villein”…’
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| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text, ed. by Peter Alexander (Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2006), p. 916 |
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