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\nBURT FRANKLIN:BIBLIOGRAPHY &REFERENCE SERIES 301Essays in Literature &Criticism 44  \nSHAKESPEARIAN PUNCTUATION  \nSHAKESPEARIAN PUNCTUATION  \nA Letter  \nAddressed to the Editor of“The Times.”October 26,I9II  \nT.J.COBDEN-SANDERSON.  \nPublished by BURT FRANKLIN  \n235 East 44th St.,New York,N.Y.10017Originally Published:1912Reprinted:1969Printed in the U.S.A.  \nLibrary of Congress Card Catalog No.:73-108427Burt Franklin:Bibliography &Reference Series 301Essays in Literature &Criticism 44  \nSHAKESPEARIAN PUNCTUATION  \nMAY I,FROM WITHIN THE LIMITS OFmy own experience,write a few lines in support ofthe vindication by Mr.Simpson of\"ShakespearianPunctuation”&of your admirable article upon thesame subject in to-day's issue?When I undertookthe reprint of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,thinking thatfor so exquisite a form of poetry the punctuationshould be as exquisite,I decided to make an excep-tion to my rule of following the text and to revisewhat had superficially seemed to me arbitrary andhaphazard in the punctuation of the original.Iaccordingly revised the punctuation of the 16og edi-tion,sonnet by sonnet;&a fascinating &alluringbalancing of nice probabilities I found it to be:butas I proceeded I found two other &more importantthings,first,that slowly,like the comingon ofnight,I was changing the whole aspect of the Sonnets,and,secondly,that the original punctuation had amethod in its seeming madness,though its methodwas not the method of to-day;that,in fact,it wasbased,not on logical or grammatical structure,buton emphasis and literary gesture.I therefore can-celled all the sheets I had already printed,bothvellum and paper,and began the edition over again,keeping,with few exceptions,punctiliously to thepunctuation,and to all the other characteristics,ofthe original.[But as seen by yourself,Sir,thequestion raised is much larger than the vindicationof the printers of the First Folio or of the 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