4 septembre 2013
James Harriman Smith, « Malone's Method », A muse of fire, ID : 10670/1.75ifm8
The following comes from an exchange between Edmund Malone and Joseph Ritson, where the latter violently attacked Malone’s 1778 edition of Shakespeare, stooping so low as to attribute any errors to Malone’s “irishness”. At one point, Malone gives his method regarding which texts to use as the basis of an edition. The second edition of a printed book can only derive authority from its being printed with the author's last corrections, or from some more correct manuscript of his work than that f...