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so our Leaders leade Theobald's change, ‘our leader's led,’ which has been adopted by every subsequent editor, is pronounced needless by Thiselton (p. 19), and, I cannot but think, justly. If Cleopatra is herself a Leader, her power is more direct, and the soldiers are more emphatically her men, than if this power were exercised only indirectly through Anthony. Moreover, by the plural, ‘women,’ there is an implication that even Anthony himself has lost his manliness and is become a woman, which is missed if ‘Leader’ be restricted to Anthony alone.—Ed.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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