Cibber's Changes
Even though Cibber takes less than 800 lines from Shakespeare, he stays for the most part with the original design, mainly adapting the plot in order to make it more suitable for the Orange stage, as well as performable in less than two hours. Cibber did add aspects and scenes and therefore created plot extensions; nevertheless his adaptation leaves out several Shakespearean characters and passages.
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