Excerpt from Rehearsal
The present text is reprinted from the third edition (4to, 1675), as representing the standard and permanent scrip of The Rehearsal, embodying the Duke of Buckingham's final amplifications and revisions. The fourth edition (4to, 1683), and the fifth edition 'with amendments and large additions by the author' (4to, 1687) - the last to be published during Villiers' lifetime - are simply reissues of the 1675 quarto, which takes its place as the sole authoritative and complete version. An exact reprint of the first edition (4to, 1672), errata innumerable and all, is easily procurable in the series, 'English Reprints,' published under the editorship of the late Professor Edward Arber. It has been thought none the less necessary and useful to add in a separate appendix a list of the passages, additions and alterations wherein the third edition differs from the first two quartos. Save, however, for the fact of being a word for word reprint Arber's edition is of little value; and the notes (taken, without original research, from eighteenth-century Keys), so far from illuminating the play, serve only to obscure it. He confesses, moreover, that he could not even learn the dates of the second and third editions, and the floundering bibliography is worse than useless, being erroneous to a degree, full of random guesswork and gaping lacun?.
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