Variorum edition

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Variorum edition is an edition of a literary work in which, unlike a "commented edition", comments by several authors are included. The term comes from cum notis variorum , Latin for "with notes from different people". In a Variorum edition, different, often contradicting interpretations of a literary text are documented.

Individual evidence

  • R. Beck, H. Kuester, M. Kuester: Basislexikon Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft , Wilhelm Fink 2009 ISBN 978-3-7705-4489-9