Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623: Third Series"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. 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" -- Publisher description. |
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Page 166
... better ! For you're spiced : else he had a bad nose could not smell a fool . HORATIO He will disclose himself without enquiry ! HAMLET Believe me , Horatio , my heart is on the sudden very sore all hereabout . 30 35 Exit . 40 27-9 See ...
... better ! For you're spiced : else he had a bad nose could not smell a fool . HORATIO He will disclose himself without enquiry ! HAMLET Believe me , Horatio , my heart is on the sudden very sore all hereabout . 30 35 Exit . 40 27-9 See ...
Page 252
... better Q2's ' much better ' is preferred by Oxf and Hibbard . 530 SD Edwards follows F as ' a clear case of the book - keeper beginning to visu- alize the staging as he transcribed Shakespeare's ms . Polonius cannot be kept back ...
... better Q2's ' much better ' is preferred by Oxf and Hibbard . 530 SD Edwards follows F as ' a clear case of the book - keeper beginning to visu- alize the staging as he transcribed Shakespeare's ms . Polonius cannot be kept back ...
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... better ; ( 2 ) improved 201 Come on . ] not in Q2 206-7 Give . . . wager . ] Q2 ; F lines Osricke , / wager . / 209 ] Q2 ; F lines it , / both : / 210 bettered ] better Q2 211-12 ] Q2 ; F lines heauy , / another . / well , / length ...
... better ; ( 2 ) improved 201 Come on . ] not in Q2 206-7 Give . . . wager . ] Q2 ; F lines Osricke , / wager . / 209 ] Q2 ; F lines it , / both : / 210 bettered ] better Q2 211-12 ] Q2 ; F lines heauy , / another . / well , / length ...
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actors Ard Q2 BARNARDO Ben Greet better Capell CORAMBIS dead death Denmark doth drink edited editors Edwards emend Enter HAMLET Enter KING error Exeunt Exit eyes F lines F reading father follow Q2 Fortenbrasse Fortinbras GENTLEMAN Gertred GHOST give GRAVEDIGGER GUILDENSTERNE HAMLET Ay hast hath heart heaven Hibbard adopt Q2's Hibbard prefer Q2's HORATIO i'th Irace is't Jenkins King Hamlet King's Laertes Leartes look lord MacDonald madness MARCELLUS MARCELLUS HAMLET Marry means misreading mother murder Ofelia OPHELIA OSRICKE Oxf and Hibbard perhaps phrase play Players POLONIUS pray preferred e.g. presumably Prince Hamlet production of Q1 prose Q1 lines Ql's Quarto QUEEN Red Shift revenge REYNOLDO ROSINCRANCE Rossencraft and Gilderstone Scene seems sense Shakespeare soul speak speech stage Stratford-upon-Avon subst tell Theatre of NOTE thee thou three texts Voltemar Weiner and Irace William Poel words