poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on Sunlighting by ALChemy.

zodiac8 Jan 2006

No original sample of Shakespeare's own writing exists. The earliest texts we have, the first Folios and Quartos, had already passed through dozens of editors and copyists hands, each with their own ideas about proper grammar. Even editors today regularly "regularize" his spelling and punctutation. For my money, the one you just posted is probably closest to Shakespeare's original, except he would have spelled "question" "kwesttione" or something.