here in Fairfax, it was the other way around: being shocked at what got cut, like (as I mentioned) "If love is blind, it agreest best with the night". That excerpt, and our actual textbook, was highlighted in a brilliant sunday Doonesbury around that time in 1985, making my teacher (who was in charge of the effort to reverse this in VA) very proud.
Our teacher both showed us the film (the Zefferelli - the Decrapio version hadn't come out yet) and had let me read my copy from the Folger edition, which uses some text from the first Quarto that's slightly different from the Folio editions ("To hide her face, for her fan's the fairer of the two", rather than "the fairer face"), allowing him to explain how the early pressings were assembled, usually illegally from the actors' copies and memories.
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Date: 2009-01-28 01:58 pm (UTC)Our teacher both showed us the film (the Zefferelli - the Decrapio version hadn't come out yet) and had let me read my copy from the Folger edition, which uses some text from the first Quarto that's slightly different from the Folio editions ("To hide her face, for her fan's the fairer of the two", rather than "the fairer face"), allowing him to explain how the early pressings were assembled, usually illegally from the actors' copies and memories.