The Douai Project: Douai Julius Caesar: Collation

Douai Julius Caesar: Collation

Witnesses

[F2]:

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

[This edition]: Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Line Cottegnies and the Sorbonne team.

Adopted reading (This edition):

feds:

F2:

fed

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

busyness:

F2:

matters, nor womans matters;

Adopted reading (This edition):

leat

F2:

lead

Probably a transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Cæesar

F2:

the Cæsars

The scribe corrects an error of F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Exeunt.

F2:

Sennet. Exeunt.

Suppression of a sound effect, which might reflect different performance circumstances.

Adopted reading (This edition):

of which

F2:

whereof

Adopted reading (This edition):

Brutus / have

F2:

Brutus, / And groaning vnderneath this Ages yoake, / Have

Omission of a line.

Adopted reading (This edition):

profess … favour

F2:

professe in Banquetting

The Douai scribe corrects an incomplete line in F2 (which omitted myself after profess) by adding my favour, although the line is slightly irregular as a consequence.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Cæesar … shores)

F2:

The troubled Tyber, chasing with her Shores, / Cæsar saies to me, Dar’st thou Cassius now

Adopted reading (This edition):

went to

F2:

was in

Adopted reading (This edition):

did

F2:

he did

Omission to achieve a regular line.

Adopted reading (This edition):

its

F2:

his

Adopted reading (This edition):

alone … Again

F2:

alone. / Shout. Flourish.

Adopted reading (This edition):

manent

F2:

No stage direction in F2, and no scene break either.

Adopted reading (This edition):

scornd … mockd

F2:

mock’d himselfe, and scorn’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

I … Cæsar

F2:

alwayes I am Cæsar

Adopted reading (This edition):

Exeunt

F2:

Sennit. / Exeunt

The sound effect is again cancelled in the Douai MS.

Adopted reading (This edition):

did … as

F2:

did not clap, and hisse him, according as

Erroneous omission of not.

Adopted reading (This edition):

stabd

F2:

stabl’d

Douai edits F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

nothing

F2:

any thing

Adopted reading (This edition):

writings … citizens)

F2:

As if they came from severall Citizens, / Writtings, all tending to the great opinion

Adopted reading (This edition):

on you

F2:

for you

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scena 3a

F2:

No scene break in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scene 4a

F2:

No scene break in F2.

Brutus, Cassius and Caska (who have entered with Caesar’s train above) remain on stage.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scena 5a

F2:

No scene break in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

split

F2:

riu’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

which

Adopted reading (This edition):

gently

F2:

surely

Adopted reading (This edition):

Sce: 6a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

use em

F2:

use

Adopted reading (This edition):

thee

F2:

thy selfe

Adopted reading (This edition):

thyghs

F2:

thews

A scribal emendation. The word thews originally means “customs, habits”, and by extension bodily proportions, lineaments, or parts (OED thew, n.1).

Adopted reading (This edition):

stony … towers

F2:

Stony Tower, nor Walls

Adopted reading (This edition):

pleasure

F2:

pleasure. Thunder still.

Omission of a sound effect.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen:7a

F2:

Cassius and Caska remain on stage.

Adopted reading (This edition):

your

F2:

our

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scena ja

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

and scorns

F2:

scorning

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

councell

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

cloaks

F2:

Cloathes

A mistake in F2, corrected here.

Adopted reading (This edition):

deep

F2:

dark

Adopted reading (This edition):

himselfe

F2:

it selfe

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 2a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter

F2:

Enter the Conspirators,

An interesting emendation: the Douai scribe does not call them conspirators.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Roman

F2:

Noble Roman

Adopted reading (This edition):

priest

F2:

priests

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

sham

F2:

staine

An original variant, which emphasizes the hypocrisy of cowards.

Adopted reading (This edition):

lets leave

F2:

Let us not leave

Emendation which could also be a scribal error. To have Caska disagree with the others introduces an interesting dissensus (and anticipates the direction the conversation takes after this line).

Adopted reading (This edition):

and the

F2:

And in the

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

we all

F2:

we will all

Adopted reading (This edition):

Let our

F2:

Let not our

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

sound

F2:

so sound

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 3a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

& when

F2:

Musing, and sighing, with your armes a-crosse: / And when

Omission of a line.

Adopted reading (This edition):

& dare

F2:

to dare

Adopted reading (This edition):

your

F2:

this

Adopted reading (This edition):

secrets

F2:

Counsels

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 5a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

scena 6a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

you

F2:

they

Adopted reading (This edition):

ghost

F2:

ghosts

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter … Brutus

F2:

Enter Decius

Placed three lines down in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

tell ’em

F2:

Say

Adopted reading (This edition):

some men

F2:

some one

Adopted reading (This edition):

some other

F2:

another

Adopted reading (This edition):

sce:7a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

scen: 8a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

most

F2:

Most high

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scene ja

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

no better

F2:

more worthy

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

base

Adopted reading (This edition):

starrs

F2:

sparkes

Scribal emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Cæsar falls

F2:

fall Cæesar

Adopted reading (This edition):

the streets

F2:

the Streets / Cas. Some to the common Pulpits, and cry out / Liberty, Freedome, and Enfrachisement.

Cut, perhaps because this is a repetition.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 2a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

most … noble:

F2:

most boldest, and best

Adopted reading (This edition):

still I have

F2:

yet have I

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen 3a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

live I 1000 year

F2:

Live a thousand yeeres

Scribal ementation

Adopted reading (This edition):

hand

F2:

hand. / First Marcus Brutus will I shake with you; / Next Caius Cassius do I take your hand; / Now Decius Brutus yours, now yours Metellus; / Yours Cinna; and my valiant Caska, yours; / Though last, not least in love, yours good Trebonius,

A cut of five lines.

Adopted reading (This edition):

neerer

F2:

dearer

Adopted reading (This edition):

rights

F2:

rites

Adopted reading (This edition):

in … funerall

F2:

About his Funerall

Adopted reading (This edition):

thy

F2:

these

Adopted reading (This edition):

Alecto

F2:

With Ate

Emendation, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen 4a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

will Brutus … Cassius

F2:

will heare Brutus speake. / 2. I will heare Cassius

Adopted reading (This edition):

does not

F2:

will not

Adopted reading (This edition):

what’s … sayd

F2:

What does he say of Brutus

Adopted reading (This edition):

we … him

F2:

We are glad that Rome is rid of him.

Variant.

Adopted reading (This edition):

all the rest

F2:

they all, all

Adopted reading (This edition):

royal

F2:

Kingly

Adopted reading (This edition):

men.

F2:

men. / I will not do them wrong, I rather choose / To wrong the dead, to wrong my selfe and you, / Then I will wrong such Honourable men.

Three lines missing: perhaps the scribe’s eye was caught by the repetition at the end of the line Honourable men, which might have made him skip the lines.

Adopted reading (This edition):

men?

F2:

men? / All. The Will, the Testament. / 2. Thy were Villaines, Murderers: the Will, reade the Will.

Two lines of text omitted.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Sce: 5a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

now

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

verses.

F2:

verses, teare him for his bad Verses.

Adopted reading (This edition):

out … then

F2:

but his name out of his heart, and

Adopted reading (This edition):

away away

F2:

Away, go

Adopted reading (This edition):

scen: Ia

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

men … dye

F2:

many then shall die

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

Who

Adopted reading (This edition):

sleight

F2:

slight

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

stand

Adopted reading (This edition):

Sc: 2a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter:

F2:

Drum. Enter

Another instance of a missing sound effect in the Douai MS.

Adopted reading (This edition):

In … officers

F2:

by ill Officers

Adopted reading (This edition):

Ever not

F2:

Ever note

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 3a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

march

F2:

move

Adopted reading (This edition):

urge

F2:

Tempt

Adopted reading (This edition):

noble

F2:

Noble men

Omission of the word men.

Adopted reading (This edition):

by as

F2:

by me, as

Adopted reading (This edition):

torne

F2:

riu’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

you shall

F2:

it shall

Adopted reading (This edition):

They … forward.

F2:

Enter a Poet. / Poet. Let me goe in to see the Generals, / There is some grudge betweene em, tis not meete / They be alone. / Luci. You shall not come to them. / Poet. Nothing but death shall stay me. / Cassi. How now? Whats the matter? / Poet. For shame you Generals? what doe you meane? / Love, and be friends, as two such men should be, / For I have seene more yeeres Ime sure then yee. / Cassi. Ha, ha, how vildely doth this Cynicked rime: / Bru. Get you hend sirrah: Sawcy fellow, hence. / Cassi. Beare with him Brutus, tis his fashion, / Brut. Ile know his humour, when he knowes his time: / What should the Warres doe with these ligging fooles? / Companion, hence. / Cassi. Away, away be gone. Exit Poet.

The scene with the poet is entirely excised, perhaps for dramatic efficiency. See annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Sce. 4ta

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

will

F2:

tell

Adopted reading (This edition):

place … us

F2:

ground / Doe stand

The scribe’s eye was perhaps drawn to the word place on the preceding line.

Adopted reading (This edition):

there is

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

please

F2:

please you

Adopted reading (This edition):

pay

F2:

Boy

See annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

lett on

F2:

set on

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: ja

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

right

F2:

left

Correction to the text of F2 which could be a mistake.

Adopted reading (This edition):

it … so

F2:

I will doe so

Adopted reading (This edition):

words

F2:

strokes

Repetition which could be a mistake.

Adopted reading (This edition):

feedind

F2:

feeding

Transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

was

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

took

F2:

fell

Adopted reading (This edition):

the the

F2:

the

Scribal mistake.

Adopted reading (This edition):

(Dyes … Pindarus

F2:

Kills him

Adopted reading (This edition):

(Exit

F2:

Addition of a Stage Direction.

Adopted reading (This edition):

scena 2a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen:3a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 4a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scena: 5a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

Sc: 6a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

rayes

F2:

blood

Variant that plays with the image of the setting sun in the previous line.

Adopted reading (This edition):

neves

F2:

never

Transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Sce: 7a

F2:

Cassius and Caska remain on stage.

Adopted reading (This edition):

valiant

F2:

Noble

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scen: 8a

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

till

F2:

while

Adopted reading (This edition):

Scena Ulma

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

my master

F2:

Correction of an accidental omission in F2.

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.

Eric Rasmussen

Eric Rasmussen is Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor with Sir Jonathan Bate of the RSC William Shakespeare Complete Works and general editor, with Paul Werstine, of the New Variorum Shakespeare. He has received the Falstaff Award from PlayShakespeare.com for Best Shakespearean Book of the Year in 2007, 2012, and 2013.

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

OED: The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

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

Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Line Cottegnies and the Sorbonne team.

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

Metadata

Authority title	Douai Julius Caesar: 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 1.0 anthology on the LEMDO platform
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Douai Julius Caesar: Collation

Witnesses

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Eric Rasmussen

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