Eclectic readings also normally give an impression of the number of witnesses to each available reading. Although a reading supported by the majority of witnesses is frequently preferred, this does not follow automatically. For example, a second edition of a Shakespeare play may include an addition alluding to an event known to have happened between the two editions. Although nearly all subsequent manuscripts may have included the addition, <answer>textual critics may reconstruct the original without the addition.</answer>
Do textual critics always include additions found in the majority of subsequent versions of a work?
textual critics may reconstruct the original without the addition.