Line by Line: Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 19-21
BARNARDO: Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. MARCELLUS:What, has this thing appear’d again tonight? BARNARDO: I have seen nothing. Here, we get our first real scholarly (and producerly) crux. Line 20 — the one where Shakespeare uses “thing” as the ultimate deferral of exposition — is attributed to Marcellus in the First Quarto and the First…
