Hamlet
Subtitle: Volume I
By: edited by Horace Howard Furness
Contributors: Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912, ed
Series: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare 1/2
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Subjects: Drama; Kings and rulers; Princes; Succession; Hamlet (Legendary character); Murder victims' families
Other titles: Hamlet
Description: This edition of "Hamlet", edited by one of the foremost of American scholars, is one of the series known as the New Variorum edition of Shakespeare. These two volumes constitute the most fully annotated edition of the play in existence.

The first volume contains Furness's own text, with a collation of the texts of all the various Folio and Quarto editions, and all the thirty-odd critical editions that had appeared by the time the present volume was published. This collation records all variant readings, differences in spelling, emendations, modifications, etc., that appear in these various editions. There are copious notes and comments from all the editions collated, from the First Quarto of 1603 through to C. E. Moberly's Rugby edition of 1873. Also incorporated into the notes are grammatical and verbal criticisms selected from the writings of essayists and critics who wrote during the same period of time.
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Notes: Reprint of 1877 edition.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark