Jonson’s Gypsies Unmasked

Abstract

i from Sidney without much attempt to adapt them to dramatic form, other than putting them into direct speech.The result is that conversations which are suitable in a discursive narrative fail when confined to the more tense dramatic medium.In presenting a diplomatic transcript, as Mr. Cutts is doing, one must exercise the great- est care, and we must be in no doubt about what the transcript means.Unfortunately there is no set convention rigorously followed in diplomatic transcripts, no statement of exactly what is to be understood by square, pointed, or half brackets and so forth.The best one can do is state each time what one means by these conventions, as C. J. Sisson did in his Malone Society edition of Believe as you List, which is still one of the touchstones of the art.Mr. Cutts' text does not contain any statement of conventions, and the result is confu ing.What, for example, is meant by square brackets?If we follow Sisson, they mean a

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