This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both plays are edited and annotated and the introduction contains the fullest available stage history of the First Quarto text.

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Publisher

The Arden Shakespeare

Year

2014

Print ISBN

9781904271802

Edition

eBook ISBN

9781408142905

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Shakespeare Drama

Index

Literature

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
General editors’ preface
Introduction
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK: The First Quarto (1603)
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK: The First Folio (1623)
Abbreviations and references
Index

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