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THE

TRAGEDY OF HAMLET,

PRINCE OF DENMARK.

EDITIONS COLLATED.

ift Quarto.

THE Tragicall

HE Tragicall Hiftorie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie. At London, Printed by J. R. for N. L. and are to be fold at his shoppe vnder Saint Dunfton's Church in Fleet-street, 1604 *.

2d Quarto. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almoft as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppy. At London, Printed for John Smethwicke, and are to be fold at his fhoppe in Saint Dunfton's Church Yeard in Fleetftreet. Vnder the Diall. 1611.

3d Quarto. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Newly imprinted and inlarged, according to the true and perfect Copy laft Printed. By William Shakespeare. London, Printed by R. Young

* No Copy so old as this seems to have been known by any of the modern Editors or Commentators; they mention none older than 1605.

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for John Smethwicke, and are to be fold at his Shop in Saint Dunstan's Church-yard in Fleet-street, under the Diall. 1637.

ift Folio. Heminge and Candell, Editors. London, Printed by Ifaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. 1623. 2d Folio. The fame Editors.

London, Printed

by Thomas Cotes and John Smethwicke, 1632. 3d Folio. The fame Editors.

for Philip Chetwinde, 1664.

London, Printed

4th Folio. The fame Editors. London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewfter and R. Bentley, 1685.

Octavo, Row's, London, 1709.
Duodecimo, Rowe's, ditto, 1714.
Large Quarto, Pope's, ditto, 1723.
Duodecimo, Pope's, ditto, 1728.
Octavo, Theobald's, ditto, 1733.
Duodecimo, Theobald's, ditto, 1740.
Large Quarto, Hanmer's, Oxford, 1744.
Octavo, Warburton's, London, 1747.
Ditto, Johnson's, ditto, 1765.
Ditto, Steevens's, ditto, 1766.
Capel's, without date.

• N.B. As Steevens publishes from the quartos, for brevity's fake, I take no notice of him but when he omits giving the various readings of those quarto editions he profeffes to collate: and it is to be understood, when I fay the quartos read fo or fo, that I include him with them, if he is not mentioned.

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DRAMATIS PERSONE.

Claudius, King of Denmark, {

Appears Act.1. Sc. 2. Â& II. Sc. 3, 4.
A& III. Sc. 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10.
Sc. 2. 5.

› Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, {A& IV. Sc. 4. A&t V. Sc. 6.

Hamlet, Son to the former, and Nephew to the present King.

A&t I. Sc. 2,
5, 6, 7, 8.
8, 10, 11.

A& V.

3, 4, 7, 8, 9. A&t II. Sc.
A& III. Sc. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7.
A& IV. Sc. 2, 3, 4. A&

V. Sc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Polonius, Lord Chamberlain, Act I. Sc. 2, 6. A&t II. Sc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,

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7. A& III. Sc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11. A& I. Sc. 1, 4, 7, 9. Act III. Sc. 5, 6, 7, 8. A&t IV. Sc. 5. 8. A&t V. Sc.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

A& I. Sc. 2, 5,

6. A& IV. Sc. 6, 7, 9,

10. A& V. Sc. 2, 5.
A&. I. Sc. 2.
Act I. Sc. 2.
A&t II. Sc. 3, 6, 7.
7, 8, 9. A& IV.
A& II. Sc. 3, 6, 7.
7, 8, 9. A& IV.

Act II. Sc. 4.
A&t. II. Sc. 4.

{A& V. Sc. 4, 5, 6.

Act I. Sc. 1, 4, 7, 9.

{ A&I.

A&t I. Sc. 1. 4.

A&t I. Sc. 1.

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Reynaldo, Servant to Polonius, A& II, Sc. 1.

a The qu's fpell this name, Fortinbrasse and Fortenbraffe.

First and 2d qu's, Valtemand; 3d q. and it f. Voltemond.

A& III. Sc. 1, 4, 6,
Sc. 1, 2, 3, 4.
A&t III. Sc. 1, 4, 6,
Sc. 1, 2, 3.

The ift f. fpells, Rofincrane, Rofineran, and Rofinerance. The 2d, 3d and 4th f. Rofincros; R. and P, Rofencraus in the Dram. Per. but Rofincroffe in the body of the Play. T.-W. and J, Rosencrantz in the Dram. Per. but Refinerants in the body of the Play. H. Rofincroffe.

d The qu's, Guyldenfterne; the 1ft f. Guildenfiern and Gwildenfterne; the other fo's, Guildenftar and Guilderfiare.

• The qu's and fo's, Barnardo.

a 2

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A Captain under Fortinbras, {A& IV. Sc. 4.

Ghost of Hamlet's Father,

! Gertrude, Q. of Denmark, and Mother to Hamlet,

{A&I. Sc. 1,7,8. A& III. Sc. 11.

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A&I. Sc. 2. A&t II. Sc. 3,4. A&III. 6, 7, 11. A& IV. Sc. 1, 5, 6,

Sc. I,

7, 10. A& V. Sc. 2, 5.

A&t 1. Sc. 5, 6. Act II. Sc. 2. A&III.

Ophelia, Daughter to Polonius, Sc. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7. Act IV. Sc. 5, 7

Ladies attending on the Queen.

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{A& IV. Sc. 8.

Meffengers, and other Attendants.

SCENE, ELSINOOR.

This Story is taken from the Danish Hiftory, written by Saxo Grammaticus. H.

The qu's, Gertrard and Gertrad.

The qu's and fo's read I for Ay thro' the whole Play; and frequently then for than.

A SKETCH

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