The Douai Project: Douai Comedy of Errors: Collation

Douai Comedy of Errors: Collation

Witnesses

[F2]:

Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Robert Allot, 1632. STC 22274. ESTC S111233.

[This edition]: Text of Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Line Cottegnies.

Adopted reading (This edition):

which strange

F2:

which was strange

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

pleasant

F2:

pleasing

Adopted reading (This edition):

obscurd light

F2:

what obscured light

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

wax’d

F2:

wax

A correction of F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

leave of

F2:

breake off

Adopted reading (This edition):

for the ships

F2:

For ere the ships

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

tho not

F2:

but not

Adopted reading (This edition):

against

F2:

before

Adopted reading (This edition):

to thee

F2:

for thee

Adopted reading (This edition):

thy life

F2:

thy help

An emendation predating Rowe’s, to correct an obvious mistake in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

redeem

F2:

buy out

Original variant.

Adopted reading (This edition):

lodge

F2:

host

Adopted reading (This edition):

Ant.Er:

F2:

Ant.

The Douai scribe or editor is often more precise than F2, although by no means systematic, by specifying which Antipholis and which Dromio is speaking in the speech prefixes. Here, the subtitution is made throughout the rest of the scene.

Adopted reading (This edition):

so late

F2:

too late

Adopted reading (This edition):

will

F2:

shall

Adopted reading (This edition):

but a 1000

F2:

But not a thousand

Adopted reading (This edition):

art not forbid

F2:

Being forbid

Adopted reading (This edition):

( beats him

F2:

Added stage direction predating Capell’s Strikes Dromio.

Adopted reading (This edition):

running

F2:

An original addition of dramatic stage business.

Adopted reading (This edition):

its bounds

F2:

his bound

An original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

& master

F2:

the Master

Adopted reading (This edition):

great eye

F2:

eye

Adopted reading (This edition):

masters of

F2:

masters to

Adopted reading (This edition):

relieve me

F2:

releeve me; / But if thou live to see like right bereft, / This foole-beg’d patience in thee will be left.

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

nay

F2:

Well

Adopted reading (This edition):

O Mistress

F2:

Why Mistresse

Adopted reading (This edition):

when

F2:

When I

Adopted reading (This edition):

villain

F2:

pesant

Adopted reading (This edition):

kick

F2:

spurne

Original emendation to avoid repetition.

Adopted reading (This edition):

bides still

F2:

bides still / That others touch, and often touching will

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

carefull

F2:

heedful

Adopted reading (This edition):

agoe

F2:

hence

Adopted reading (This edition):

my teeth

F2:

the teeth

Adopted reading (This edition):

when the why

F2:

when in the way

Adopted reading (This edition):

none of it

F2:

not of it

Adopted reading (This edition):

by rule … bald pate

F2:

sir, by a rule as plaine as the plaine bald pate

Adopted reading (This edition):

niggardly

F2:

niggard

Adopted reading (This edition):

sound ones

F2:

sound ones too

Adopted reading (This edition):

false

F2:

falsing

Adopted reading (This edition):

no time

F2:

namely, no time

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

your

F2:

thy

Adopted reading (This edition):

cav’d

F2:

carv’d

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

nearly

F2:

dearely

Adopted reading (This edition):

but hear

F2:

heare

Adopted reading (This edition):

from

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

break with

F2:

break it with

Adopted reading (This edition):

thou wouldst

F2:

thou canst

Original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

never saw

F2:

never saw her

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Thou didst

F2:

Didst thou

Adopted reading (This edition):

my mood

F2:

my moode; / Be it my wrong, you are from me exempt, / But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

of thy strength … communicate

F2:

with thy strength to communicate

Emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

’tis but dross

F2:

it is drosse

Adopted reading (This edition):

masked fallacie

F2:

free’d fallacie

Original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

elvish sprights

F2:

Elves Sprights

An emendation predating Pope.

Adopted reading (This edition):

thou slave

F2:

snaile

Adopted reading (This edition):

put my … my eye

F2:

put the finger in thy eye

Emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

dotard

F2:

drunkard

Adopted reading (This edition):

the same … thinck

F2:

what I thinke

Adopted reading (This edition):

when I’m kick’d

F2:

being kickt

Adopted reading (This edition):

Antipholis sereptus

F2:

Antipholis of Ephesus

The scribe or editor chooses the latinate form Sereptus for consistency’s sake, where F2 has Antipholis of Ephesus, then E. Ant. in the speech prefixes, but this consistency does not extend to Dromio, who is named here Dromio Ephesus in the stage direction and D. E. in the speech prefixes (following F2 this time, which has E. Dro. in the speech prefixes).

Adopted reading (This edition):

Both by

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

dainty dish

F2:

daintie dish. / Bal. Good meat sir is common that every churle affords. / Ant. And welcome more common, for that’s nothing / but words

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

goe as he came

F2:

walke from whence he came

Adopted reading (This edition):

much blame

F2:

mickle blame

Adopted reading (This edition):

Answered well

F2:

answer’d him well

Adopted reading (This edition):

such a noyse

F2:

all this noise

Adopted reading (This edition):

goe sore

F2:

goe sore. / Angelo Heere is neither cheere sir, nor welcome, we / would faine have either. / Baltz. In debating which was best, wee shall part / with neither. / E. Dro. They stand at the doore, Master, bid them / welcome hither.

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

were thin

F2:

were thin. / Your cake here is warme within: you stand heere in the cold. / It would make a man as mad as a Bucke to be so bought and sold

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Besides the long

F2:

Once this your long

Adopted reading (This edition):

on her part

F2:

on your part

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Ant: Erotes

F2:

Antipholis of Siracusa

The editor chooses the latinate form for consistency’s sake here and in the speech prefix.

Adopted reading (This edition):

let not … orator

F2:

Be not thy tongue thy owned shames Orator

Adopted reading (This edition):

foolish

F2:

simple

Adopted reading (This edition):

double

F2:

doubled

Adopted reading (This edition):

comforts

F2:

conquers

Adopted reading (This edition):

to dye

F2:

To die: / Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sinke

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

my hopes sweet ayme

F2:

my sweet hopes aim

Adopted reading (This edition):

sister love … for thee

F2:

sister sweet, for I am thee

Adopted reading (This edition):

Dromio

F2:

Dromio? Am I your man

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

a horse

F2:

your horse

Adopted reading (This edition):

very fat

F2:

wondrous fat

Adopted reading (This edition):

all

F2:

all ore

Adopted reading (This edition):

if my heart … steel

F2:

I thinke, if / my brest had not been made of faith, and my heart of steele

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

But … selfe

F2:

But least my selfe

Adopted reading (This edition):

Goldsmith

F2:

Angelo

Adopted reading (This edition):

nay please

F2:

What please

Adopted reading (This edition):

your mony

F2:

the monie

Adopted reading (This edition):

since … have not

F2:

since I have not much

Adopted reading (This edition):

arrest

F2:

attach

Adopted reading (This edition):

Please you to walke

F2:

Pleaseth you walke

Adopted reading (This edition):

Ant: Sereptus Dromio Ep:

F2:

Antipholis Ephes. Dromio

Adopted reading (This edition):

costly fashion

F2:

chargefull fashion

Adopted reading (This edition):

am furnishd

F2:

am not furnish’d

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

give the chain

F2:

the Chaine

Adopted reading (This edition):

arrest

F2:

attach

Adopted reading (This edition):

shee’l bear

F2:

she beares

Adopted reading (This edition):

brought

F2:

have brought

Adopted reading (This edition):

Blows … land

F2:

Blowes faire from land

Adopted reading (This edition):

his case

F2:

this case

Adopted reading (This edition):

a right

F2:

no right

Original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

its will

F2:

his will

Original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

ith mind

F2:

worse the mind

A correction of F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

that others

F2:

others

Adopted reading (This edition):

clad in buff

F2:

all in buffe

Adopted reading (This edition):

runs

F2:

draws

Adopted reading (This edition):

the Desk

F2:

his deske

Adopted reading (This edition):

he should … know it

F2:

he vnknowne to me should be in debt

The scribe wrote the last words of the line just below the line perhaps to avoid running over the stage direction.

Adopted reading (This edition):

an hour

F2:

any houre

Adopted reading (This edition):

for fear

F2:

for very feare

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

An emendation to correct an error in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Antipholis Erotes

F2:

Antipholis Siracusian

Adopted reading (This edition):

cased in leather

F2:

in a case of leather

Adopted reading (This edition):

bids him good rest

F2:

saieth, God give you good rest

Adopted reading (This edition):

your foolery

F2:

in your foolerie

Adopted reading (This edition):

word

F2:

word an houre since

Adopted reading (This edition):

it comes

F2:

comes

Emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

goe and … speake for

F2:

doe, expect spoon-meante, or bespeake

Emendation. The Douai editor corrects the syntax of F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

thou

F2:

then

Adopted reading (This edition):

why

F2:

that

Adopted reading (This edition):

600

F2:

five hundred

Adopted reading (This edition):

(beats Dromio

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (This edition):

warmes

F2:

heates

Adopted reading (This edition):

with beating

F2:

with beating: when I am warme, he cooles me with beating:

Omission. The scribe’s eye was obviously caught by the repetition of the word beating and skipped a line.

Adopted reading (This edition):

with them

F2:

with it

Adopted reading (This edition):

with

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

beware of

F2:

beware

Adopted reading (This edition):

he lookes

F2:

he lookes, / Cur. Marke, how he trembles in his extasie

Omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

shut up … lock’d out

F2:

lockt up, and I shut out

Adopted reading (This edition):

shut … lock’d out

F2:

lockt, and you shut out

Adopted reading (This edition):

wentst thou not

F2:

Wentst not thou

Adopted reading (This edition):

are

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

out

F2:

forth

Adopted reading (This edition):

dost lye

F2:

speak’st false

Adopted reading (This edition):

does lye

F2:

are false

Adopted reading (This edition):

those

F2:

these

Adopted reading (This edition):

what wilt thou

F2:

I am thy prisoner, wilt thou

Adopted reading (This edition):

what the debt is

F2:

how the debt growes

Adopted reading (This edition):

fye

F2:

Out

Adopted reading (This edition):

good master … mad

F2:

be mad good master

Adopted reading (This edition):

their soules

F2:

poor soules

Adopted reading (This edition):

them

F2:

him

Adopted reading (This edition):

Exeunt … frighted

F2:

Exeunt omnes, as fast as may be, frighted.

Adopted reading (This edition):

see they speak

F2:

saw they spake

Adopted reading (This edition):

Act V

F2:

Exeunt / Actus Quintus. Scæna Prima.

Adopted reading (This edition):

court

F2:

Citie

This change was probably meant as a way of avoiding a repetition.

Adopted reading (This edition):

the same

F2:

that selfe

Adopted reading (This edition):

the shame

F2:

this shame

Adopted reading (This edition):

so openly you wear

F2:

you wear so openly

Adopted reading (This edition):

perchance

F2:

Haply

Adopted reading (This edition):

was

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

brawling

F2:

brawles

Adopted reading (This edition):

his

F2:

her

Adopted reading (This edition):

selfe preserving

F2:

life-preserving

Adopted reading (This edition):

have quite … wits

F2:

have scar’d thy husband from the use of wits

Adopted reading (This edition):

this my house

F2:

in my house

Adopted reading (This edition):

prayers and tears

F2:

tears and prayers

Adopted reading (This edition):

deep

F2:

depth

An attempt at solving a crux in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Merchant of Siracuse

F2:

Merchant of Siracuse, / bareheaded

Adopted reading (This edition):

renowned

F2:

reverend

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Streets

F2:

street

Adopted reading (This edition):

quite

F2:

all

Adopted reading (This edition):

know … escape

F2:

wot not, by what strong escape

Adopted reading (This edition):

swords drawn

F2:

drawn swords

Adopted reading (This edition):

having raised

F2:

raising of

Adopted reading (This edition):

have beate

F2:

Beaten

Adopted reading (This edition):

fire brands

F2:

brands of fire

Adopted reading (This edition):

fire

F2:

haire

Adopted reading (This edition):

patience

F2:

patience to him

Adopted reading (This edition):

scarce

F2:

not

Adopted reading (This edition):

them

F2:

him

Adopted reading (This edition):

M: S:

F2:

Mer. Fat.

I.e., Merchant Father.

M.S. stands for Merchant of Syracusa.

Adopted reading (This edition):

shameless hath

F2:

hath shameless

Adopted reading (This edition):

dine

F2:

did dine

Adopted reading (This edition):

or sleep i’th night

F2:

nor sleepe on night

Adopted reading (This edition):

although

F2:

Albeit

Adopted reading (This edition):

dragd

F2:

bore

Adopted reading (This edition):

damp and darksome

F2:

darke and dankish

Adopted reading (This edition):

this Abbey’s walls

F2:

these Abbey walls

Adopted reading (This edition):

this

F2:

here

Adopted reading (This edition):

gracious … with him

F2:

gracious Lord. / E. Dro And I with him. / E. Ant. Brought to this Towne by that most famous / Warriour, / Duke Menaphon, your most renowned Vncle

Adopted reading (This edition):

so say I

F2:

so doe I

Adopted reading (This edition):

hear and see

F2:

see and heare

Adopted reading (This edition):

it is

F2:

it be

Adopted reading (This edition):

come

F2:

Goe

Adopted reading (This edition):

Come to … with me

F2:

Goe to a Gossips feast, and goe with me, / After so long griefe such Nativity.

Correction of a repetition of the word nativity.

Adopted reading (This edition):

what noise

F2:

What a coile

Adopted reading (This edition):

made turn

F2:

made me turn

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Côme Saignol is a PhD candidate at Sorbonne University where he is preparing a thesis about the reception of Cyrano de Bergerac. After working several years on Digital Humanities, he created a company named CS Edition & Corpus to assist researchers in classical humanities. His interests include: eighteenth-century theatre, philology, textual alignment, and XML databases.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Line Cottegnies

Line Cottegnies teaches early-modern literature at Sorbonne Université. She is the author of a monograph on the politics of wonder in Caroline poetry, L’Éclipse du regard: la poésie anglais du baroque au classicisme (Droz, 1997), and has co-edited several collections of essays, including Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish (AUP, 2003, with Nancy Weitz), Women and Curiosity in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2016), with Sandring Parageau, or Henry V: A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2018), with Karen Britland. She has published on seventeenth-century literature, from Shakespeare and Raleigh to Ahpra Behn and Mary Astell. Her research interests are: early-modern drama and poetry, the politics of translation (between France and England), and women authors of the period. She has also developed a particular interest in editing: she had edited half of Shakespeare’s plays for the Gallimard bilingual complete works (alone and in collaboration), and, also, Henry IV, Part 2, for The Norton Shakespeare 3 (2016). With Marie-Alice Belle, she has co-edited two Elizabethan translations of Robert Garnier (by Mary Sidney Herbert and Thomas Kyd), published in 2017 in the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translation Series as Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England. She is currently working on an edition of three Behn’s translations from the French for the Cambridge edition of Behn’s Complete Works

Mahayla Galliford

Assistant project manager, 2024-present; research assistant, encoder, and remediator, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons) English from the University of Victoria in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. She continues her studies through the UVic English master’s program and focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscript writing in collaboration with LEMDO.

Navarra Houldin

LEMDO project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

Capell, Edward, ed. Mr William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. 10 vols. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1767–1768. ESTC T138599. Murphy 304.

Pope, Alexander, ed. The works of Shakespear. 6 vols. London: Jacob Tonson, 1725. ESTC N26060.

Rowe, Nicholas, ed. The Works of Mr William Shakespear. 6 vols. London, 1709; rpt. 8 vols. 1714. ESTC T138296.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

https://www.uvic.ca/

Witnesses

Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Robert Allot, 1632. STC 22274. ESTC S111233.

Text of Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Line Cottegnies.

Metadata

Authority title	Douai Comedy of Errors: Collation
Type of text	Apparatus
Publisher	Sorbonne Université and University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series	Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project
Source	Born-digital, peer-reviewed collation prepared by Line Cottegnies for publication in the Douai 1.1 anthology on the LEMDO platform
Editorial declaration	Edited according to the Douai Manuscript Project’s Editorial Procedures
Edition	Released with The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project 1.1
Sponsor(s)	The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project Anthology Lead: Line Cottegnies. The project is a scientific collaboration between Sorbonne Université and the University of Victoria.
Encoding description	Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines
Document status	published, peer-reviewed
Funder(s)	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fonds France Canada pour la Recherche / France-Canada Research Fund Sorbonne Université University of Victoria
License/availability	This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be given to the author, Douai Manuscript Project, and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except for quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of Douai Manuscript Project, the editor, and LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the critical paratexts in the classroom. Neither the content nor the code in this file is licensed for training large language models (LLMs), ingestion into an LLM, or any use in any artificial intelligence applications; such uses are considered to be commercial uses and are strictly prohibited. Images provided by the Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore are licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. They can be downloaded and reproduced in scholarly publications and presentations provided that credit is included. Credit must include the phrase: Used by kind permission of the Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Douai, and must include the shelfmark MS 787 and the folio numbers. We ask that a copy of any scholarly publication be sent to the Douai library via email attachment to the Curator, currently Jean Vilbas at jvilbas@ville-douai.fr, or via mail to the following address: Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, 61 Parvis Georges Prêtre, BP 20625, 59506 Douai cedex, France.

Douai Comedy of Errors: Collation

Witnesses

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Janelle Jenstad

Line Cottegnies

Mahayla Galliford

Navarra Houldin

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

Witnesses

Metadata

The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project