THE MARLOWE SOCIETY'S SHAKESPEARE
SLR,—Mr. Karl Miller objects to the Marlowe Society's use of 'the Dover Wilson edition, with its learned meddlings.' There are many readings in the New Shakespeare text which are open to challenge, but the implication—especially where Othello and Troilus and Cressida are concerned—that there is some uncontroversial, un-meddled-with text that could safely have been chosen instead must strike any Shakespeare scholar as simply ludicrous.—Yours faithfully,
J. C. MAXWELL King's College, University of Durham,
Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 [Karl Miller writes: 'I agree that there is no such uncontroversial source and that an editor has a duty to emend where he thinks fit. But it seems to be common ground between Mr. Maxwell and myself that Professor Dover Wilson has made certain changes which it would not be easy to defend.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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