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The Tempest Ernest Renan, Caliban, suite de la Tempête, drame philosophique (1878).

Robert Browning, 'Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island,' in Dramatis Personæ (1864).

 

The text of the present volume is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig, except for the following deviations:

1. The stage-directions of the first Folio have been restored as far as possible, with necessary modern additions in square brackets.

2. The spelling of a few words is altered, as boatswain for boson; bowsprit for boresprit; burthen for burden; mo for more; o' for of; th' for the; farther for further; villainous for villanous.

3. A number of unnecessary commas have been omitted.

4. The following passages. [Craig's readings are placed after the colon.]

creature: creatures

butt: boat

princess: princes

made thee no: made no

he, that: he that

Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,: Shall forth at vast of night, that they may work

Burthen dispersedly: 'Bow, wow': [Burden: Bow, wow, dispersedly. (And so similarly in similar cases.)

nor: or

Gon. Ay: Alon. Ay?

