BBC News reports on a new British Library project to digitize early copies of William Shakespeare’s plays. (see Hamlet on the Ramparts for a rundown on the Bard’s editions.)
The texts of the plays are thought to be the closest versions to the way that the plays were actually written and performed… Hamlet’s famous line: “To be, or not to be, that is the question” appears in a quarto from 1605. However in an earlier edition produced in 1603 it is written as: “To be, or not to be, I there’s the point”.
Nice to know that version control issues extend beyond Greedo shooting first.
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