Abstract
The discussion of Shakespearean punctuation begun by Percy Simpson has brought out two theories of seventeenth-century punctuation—one that it is based upon principles of elocution and the other that it is based upon the grammatical structure of sentences. No one seems to have argued that the two principles must have been active simultaneously, that rules of punctuation (even those formulated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which Professor Fries cites) regard both the structure and the pause.
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