Excerpt from The Text of Shakespeare: Its History From the Publication of the Quartos and Folios Down to and Including the Publication of the Editions of Pope and TheobaldNo one needs to be told that the establishment of the text has been attended throughout with controversies. These have occasionally been long and have Often been bitter. Deplorable as has been the ill-feeling sometimes engendered, great as has been the injustice sometimes wrought, none the less is it true that through the agency of these wordy wars the knowledge of the whole subject has been perceptibly advanced. Never has this Observa tion been more true than of the first, the most protracted and the most important of them all. This is the alter cation that went Ou between Pope and Theobald. It was the differences between these rival editors that Opened the era of controversy which has continued with little cessation to our own day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.