Talk:What a piece of work is a man
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Is there room in this article for discussion of the differences between the versions of the speech in the Folio and Quarto texts? After all, the different reading changes the meaning substantially in places. 91.105.57.101 (talk) 02:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
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- The very speech, given as "the speech" in this entry, may or may not have the word "a" in its opening line. The entry needs a major editing to accommodate this and its implications.
- In addition, differing lineations in Q1, Q2, and F1 give very different meanings, semantic stress, and poetic rhythms.
These issues have been discussed for a long time. Interestingly, the case of the missing-or-not "a" is similar to the "one small step for [a] man" controversy. Shlishke (talk) 05:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
