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- Title
A DISPUTED READING IN THE WITCH OF EDMONTON.
- Authors
Atkinson, David
- Abstract
The article states that after Frank Thorney in "The Witch of Edmonton," has committed bigamy by marrying Susan Carter he unintentionally reveals the unease he now feels in her presence. The play's editors have failed to agree on a reading of Frank's lines. Author H. Weber has them spoken aloud, while author Hartley Coleridge assigns the rest of the speech beginning she has't as an aside. Of the twentieth-century editors give the whole speech as an aside. Moreover, it allows Frank more subtlety in deception than he could be expected to muster at this moment, and requires Susan who in her innocence is comparatively unflustered to make an uncharacteristic abrupt change of subject in her next speech.
- Subjects
THORNEY, Frank; COLERIDGE, Hartley, 1796-1849; WITCH of Edmonton, The (Theatrical production); WITCHCRAFT; DRAMATISTS; DRAMA
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1984, Vol 31, Issue 2, p230
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/31-2-230