FANNY KEMBLE

F R O M C O L L I E R’ S N O T E S A N D E M E N D AT I O N S T O T H E T E X T O F S H A K E S P E A R E ’ S P L A Y S

“I am not careless, as I may have appeared to you, of the value of the text of Shakespeare ; but, poet, philosopher, and playwright as he was, your dealings with him are in the latter, you need not be afraid of eliminating the two nobler elements of his works ; omit what you will, that is impossible.”

-From Notes on Shakespeare’s Plays