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All About Our World

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Page 2 of 216


As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words
or letters they had often packed into a "cliche".  .  .this is the
original meaning of the term cliche.  .  .and thus, being unwilling
to unpack the cliches, and thus you will see some substitutions
that look very odd.  .  .such as the exchanges of u for v, v for u,
above.  .  .and you may wonder why they did it this way, presuming
Shakespeare did not actually write the play in this manner.  .  .  . 

The answer is that they MAY have packed "liue" into a cliche at a
time when they were out of "v"'s.  .  .possibly having used "vv" in
place of some "w"'s, etc.  This was a common practice of the day,
as print was still quite expensive, and they didn't want to spend
more on a wider selection of characters than they had to. 

You will find a lot of these kinds of "errors" in this text, as I
have mentioned in other times and places, many "scholars" have an
extreme attachment to these errors, and many have accorded them a
very high place in the "canon" of Shakespeare.  My father read an
assortment of these made available to him by Cambridge University

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