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The Texts of "Othello" and Shakespearian Revision. By E. A. J. Honigmann. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

More than thirty years ago, in The Stability of Shakespeare's Text (1965), E. A. J. Honigmann raised a minority voice against the stubborn propensity of the foremost Shakespearean textual scholars of the time to explain all variants between early Shakespeare texts as due to forms of corruption and to dismiss the possibility of authorial revision. He showed that authors copying their own manuscripts, including Renaissance playwrights, are apt to tinker with their wording, ...