Staging the Henrician Court : punctuation and the sponge

This page last changed on Sep 24, 2009 by Greg Walker.

Now then, a thought about punctuation. I've always been uneasy about the line 'though they fell on a sponge they would give no sound. I'm wondering whether the correct line would make, 'though they fell on a sponge' the continuation of the preceeding line, and 'they would make no sound' a separate, explanatory, thought. don't all rush at once....

Comments:

As it stands, the clause seems to need something noisy rather than a sponge. An elephant, falling on a sponge is likely to make little sound - depending on the size of the sponge...
Posted by greg.walker@ed.ac.uk at Sep 24, 2009 14:44


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