Hamlet
Subtitle: An authoritative text, intellectual backgrounds, extracts from the sources, essays in criticism
By: Edited by Cyrus Hoy
Contributors: Hoy, Cyrus
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
Copyright date: 1963
Description: The text has been entirely newly edited: it is based on the second Quarto edition (1604-5), supplemented with some 80 lines of the Folio (1623) that are missing from Q2. The most elaborate textual apparatus to be found in any paperback edition of the play, and a full range of explanatory notes.

Ample extracts from the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus and The Tragical Histories of Belleforest - the only extant pre-Shakespearean accounts.

Source readings on four subjects of absorbing interest to the late Renaissance - melancholy, demonology, the nature of man and death.
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