Also recommended are the Penguin Shakespeare and New Variorum editions.
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In variorum editions, the apparatus is often placed at the bottom of the page.
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By 1944, the Variorum edition of the sonnets contained an appendix with the conflicting views of nearly forty commentators.
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The persona of Dickinson's poem meets Thomas H . Johnson's variorum edition of 1955 the number of this poem is 712.
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He is currently general editor of the forthcoming Oxford variorum edition of Blackstone's " Commentaries on the Laws of England ".
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His monumental work has now been superseded in the variorum edition by Ralph W . Franklin just issued by Harvard University Press.
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R . W . Franklin's 1998 variorum edition of the poems provided alternate wordings to those chosen by Johnson, in a more limited editorial intervention.
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Variorum editions help editors and scholars understand the historical evolution of the Shakespeare texts, as well as to decode dubious lines and decide upon most likely authorial intent.
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His life work lay within a field that philologically-equipped theologians had pursued relentlessly since the seventeenth century : the establishment of a complete variorum edition of the scriptural texts.
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He also served as the editor of its periodical publications, as well as the general editor of the New Variorum edition of Shakespeare's works ( 1935 & ndash; 46 ).