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ISBN-10: 0805787143

ISBN-13: 9780805787146

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I, when Timon undertakes to relieve Ventidius, the n am� is spelled just so : 'Ventidius'. In 1. i i , the scene now before u s , when Ventidius attempts to repay his debt to Timon, he is called in the Folio 'Ventigius'. In 11. ii, when Timon instructs his steward to apply for help to Ventidius, the name is now given as 'Ventiddius', while in III. iii, at the point where we hear of his refusal to assist, the name appears as 'Ventidgius'. We have, then, four versions of the nam e : 'Ventidius', 'Ventiddius', 'Ventigius' and 'Ventidgius'.

2 5 In Richard II it is the King who is let down and this time the initial draining away of confidence which leads to the betrayal is expressed in explicitly fi nancial terms. The gossip about Richard could be transferred, almost without change, to Timon : Willoughby. Northumberland. Ross. The [King's] grown bankrout, like a broken man. Reproach and dissolution han geth over him. He hath not money for these I rish wars . ( I I . i. 257-9) In I I I . ii, fi rst Salisbury and then Scroop bring news that help is not forthcoming.

I. 6 5-74) is in a manner proleptic of the whole play. It is answered, when the time comes, by a retrospective true fiction at v. i. 32, where the Poet says, I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for him . It must be a personating of himself ; a satire against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency. But by this stage in the play the allocation of roles, Timon's and the poet's, is plain. Timon says, Must thou needs stand for a villain in thine own work?

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