Cuts may be made for many reasons: to placate the censor, to shorten performance time, to accommodate changes in casting, or to adapt to changing tastes in the audience. By their nature, however significant their effect on the structure of the play and the nature of the actors' roles, cuts leave no stylistic fingerprints thus it is unfortunately impossible to subject cuts to any kind of authorial test. The changes least amenable to the identification of the agent who caused them are the many cuts. In practical terms, however, it is simpler to think of most passages missing from the Folio to be cuts, and passages appearing in the Folio only, in most cases, to be later additions by person or persons undefined-though there have been arguments that propose alternative reasons for the differences.
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