30 Great Myths About Shakespeare
“His works—in particular the popular narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece—began being anthologized during his lifetime: Robert Allot's book of quotations England's Parnassus (1600) includes extracts from Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II, Richard III, 1 Henry IV, and, especially, Romeo and Juliet. The project of anthologizing has continued ever since. Alexander Pope's 1725 edition of Shakespeare provided a useful service to its readers: “Some of the most shining passages are d...istinguished by commas in the margin, and where the beauty lay not in particulars but in the whole a star is prefixed to the scene”: passages so marked included Portia's speech on mercy in the courtroom of The Merchant of Venice (4.1.181–202) and Mercutio's flight of fancy on Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet (1.4.55–96). Shakespeare—or his publishers (see Myth 4)—had already anticipated this kind of highlighting: early printed texts also use the inverted comma in the left-hand margin to identify quotable passages.MoreLess
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