Scores in the only authorized copy and also the book in manuscript may be had of the reviser of the book, Herrn F.
The second hand in the play was the reviserof 1592 who introduced the Talbot passages.
Peele was the principal writer and reviser for Henslowe at this period, while not one of Shakespeare's plays is mentioned in his whole Diary.
There cannot be the slightest doubt that this was George Peele, who in 1592, and for some time before and later, was the principal producer and reviserof plays for the Lord Admiral's company.
Oak, although he now considered himself chief only in name, still acted as librarian, business agent for most of the intercourse with the printing house, and reviser of the final proofs of all the volumes.
As first reviser I select the name Rukia, which not only is shorter but is also based on a species which I have been able to examine.
At $1,400 three women serve as assistant readers of catalogue cards and proof readers in the catalogue division, and another is the chiefreviser in the record division of the Copyright Office.
At $1,500 there is one woman at work in the catalogue division as an expert reviser of printed catalogue cards and proof reader.
But when Schuecking proceeds to the suggestion that the Introduction or the Finn Episode may have been added by the same reviser who added Beowulf's Return, he knocks the bottom out of some of his previous arguments.
These episodic passages also, Schuecking supposes, may have been added by the same reviser who added the Return.
In this case also we are able to discern considerable shades and gradations in the sources the reviser had at command.
In the case of the books of Judges and Samuel it is not perhaps possible to decide with perfect certainty what was the norm applied by the last reviser in forming his estimates of the past.
We are led to this conclusion, it is allowed on all hands, both by the phraseology of the reviser and by the spirit of his judgments.
The last reviser distinguishes the months not by their old Hebrew names, Zif, Bul, Ethanim, but by numbers, commencing with spring as the beginning of the year.
The detailed figures which compose the total are here more complicated, which is no doubt partly due to the fact that some of them are dates which the reviser found given.
In many instances no doubt the reviser found flints in his sources and worked them out in his own style; thus, 1Kings xiv.
But though the hand of one, and perhaps of another, reviser is unmistakably present, the play is properly included among Beaumont and Fletcher's works.
On the other hand, such passages display traits never found in him but often found in some other collaborator with Fletcher, or in some reviser of Fletcher's plays, sometimes Massinger but more frequently Field.
Since Fletcher's contribution to the play has been mangled by a reviser it is impossible to draw conclusions as to the date of composition from the evidence of his literary style.
I have said that no ye's occur in Acts I and II, and Act V, 2, the parts in which Beaumont's hand as author or reviser appears.
As we have already noticed, Shakespeare was trained, like his fellow workmen, first as an actor, second as a reviser of old plays, and last as an independent dramatist.
Five years later we find him employed, like Shakespeare, as actor and reviser of old plays in the theater.
We can conceive an authorized reviser expanding speeches, but thoroughly in the line of the speakers, or inserting explanatory remarks as to places, or as to practices that had prevailed "unto this day.
As to the hand of a reviser or revisers in the book, we see no difficulty in allowing for such.
And here a sentence has been left out which he wrote on the back of his copy and has been skipped by compositor, copy-holder, proof-reader, and reviser alike!
The reviser of the plate-proofs must watch carefully for such cases.
The reviser of the Lassberg manuscript seems to have observed the difficulty; at least the last line of the stanza is different in that manuscript.
Did thereviser of this manuscript wish it to be inferred, that Siegfried, after leaving his wife, went and put on the tarnkappe?
It must be noticed, too, that in this "Second Part" the reviser begins to show himself as something more than the sweet lyric poet.
Besides, the reviser adds a great deal to the part of the weak King with the evident object of making his helplessness pathetic.
The lively description of the journey and the suit of Eliezer is the work of the reviser of the two original texts.
Both the author of the Ephraimitic text and the reviser were well acquainted with the life and customs of Egypt.
The two narratives are interpolated each into the other, and the additions of the reviser are more prominent than elsewhere.
