Note 188 — ACT IV.[188]
Reading edition
Hitherto this play has been made to consist of four acts; but, surely, through mistake: the third act containing more pages than any two besides. The present editor [Hawkins] has therefore ventured, against the authority of the printed copies, to divide the third into two; and submits the propriety of the arrangement to the judgment of the reader.
It should seem, nevertheless, as if Kyd did not mean to make this division, as at the end of all the other acts something passes between the Ghost of Andrea and Revenge. It is singular that all the editions of this tragedy should be in four acts only, if such had not been the intention of the author.—Collier.