The First Quarto having been reprinted in full, there is no collation of it recorded in the Textual Notes, except where an editor has adopted one of its readings. The agreement of Q2, Q3, Q4, and Q, is indicated by the symbol Qq. In like manner, the accord of the four Folios is indicated in the Textual Notes by Ff. Manifest misspellings in both Qq and Ff are recorded, as an aid in estimating the value of these editions. I have referred to these early copies at some length in The Date and the Text at the beginning of this Volume, and on p. 36 to a peculiarity of the Second Folio, to which, by the way, STEEVENS, out of what I cannot but think was mere antagonism to MALONE, imputed a value above that of the First Folio. The Players' Quartos are recorded only in exceptional cases where it is well to have at hand all possible evidence. As a rule, the Quarto of 1676 includes them all; and even it is not noted when it agrees with the four earlier Quartos. As in the former volumes of this edition, the agreement of ROWE, POPE, THEOBALD, HANMER, WARBURTON, and JOHNSON is indicated by Rowe+. Occasionally, where they all agree with F, I have used, to save space, F+. Rowe did not print from F in this tragedy, as he did in Macbeth. 4 When the GLOBE, the CAMBRIDGE, and CLARENDON editions agree in the same reading, I have used the symbol Glo.+. The abbreviation (subs.) indicates that trifling variations in spelling, in punctua tion, or in stage-directions are not noted, but that one edition follows another substantially. 'Var.' stands for BOSWELL'S edition of MALONE, or, as it is usually called, the VARIORUM OF 1821, and for MALONE'S edition of 1790; where its editor, BosWELL, here and there adopted his own text, it is indicated by Bos.; and so trifling is the difference between SINGER'S First Edition and the Variorum of 1821 that Var.' might stand for this edition also. Where Singer's readings are noted, they refer, as a rule, to his Second Edition. The work of collation was well advanced before it was discovered that CALDECOTT's two editions of 1820 and 1832 differ somewhat from each other both in text and notes; there is no intimation on the title-page that the editions are not identical. To revise and change involved more labour and more time than it was thought worth while to bestow on it; 'Cald.' therefore refers generally to Caldecott's Second Edition of 1832. 'Coll. (MS)' refers to Mr COLLIER'S annotated F ̧. 'Quincy (MS)' refers to Mr QUINCY'S annotated F. The abbreviation et cet. after any reading indicates that it is the reading of all editions other than those specified. Be it remembered that, to save space, the readings of some of the above enumerated editions are not recorded in every trifling instance, but only in obscure passages. An Emendation or Conjecture which is discussed in the Commentary is not repeated in the Textual Notes; nor is conj.' added to any name in the Textual Notes unless it happens to be that of an editor, in which case its omission would be misleading. In the matter of punctuation the colon is used, as it is in German, as equivalent to namely.' Only when thus used does it indicate any appreciable difference from the semicolon. A dash at the close of a sentence indicates that the speaker changes his address from one person to another. The Commentary, to be intelligible, must be read in connection with the Textual Notes. For instance, see I, iii, 74. To save space in the Commentary, all phrases like 'I think,' 'it seems to me,' &c. have been omitted from the notes there cited. In the preceding volumes of this edition I have given lists of Books quoted and consulted' in their preparation. Instead thereof, in the present volume will be found in the following pages what is almost the same: a Bibliography of Hamlet, as complete as may be. The number of books, essays, &c., there recorded, which have not been consulted for this edition, is comparatively small. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HAMLET ENGLISH * SEVENTEENTH CENTURY The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke .. .. 1603 Reproductions: Photographic Fac-simile. [Forty copies for the Duke of Devonshire, 1825 1856 1858 1860 . 1866 1866 1877 The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke .. .. 1604 Reproductions: Photographic Fac-simile. [Forty copies for the Duke of Devonshire, under the supervision of Mr Collier] 1859 This ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY' has been most kindly prepared for this edition by my friend, Mr A. I. FISH. ED. Timmins's Reprints of Quartos 1603, 1604. The Devonshire Hamlets .. 1860 The Ashbee-Halliwell Fac-simile. [Thirty-one copies.] [See p. 13 of this Volume.-ED.] The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke .. Reproductions: 1867 ..1605 Halliwell's Fac-simile. [Twenty-six copies, made under the superintendence of Mr Halliwell to show the identity of the two editions of 1604 and 1605.-Bohn's Lowndes.] .. 1860 The Ashbee-Halliwell Fac-simile. [Thirty-one copies. See Halliwell's The Hystorie of Hamblet. London. Imprinted by Richard Bradocke for Thomas Pauier. Reproductions: 1868 .. 1608 . 1843 . 1865 1875 Collier's Shakespeare's Library, vol. i. [Reprint of the 'Hystorie.'] The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. [This edition is mentioned by Lowndes and Halliwell, Shakespeareana, p. 18 (1841), but its existence is very doubtful. No fac-simile is found in the Ashbee-Halliwell Series, and no copy is known in any collection of Quartos.] The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Reproductions: 1 .. 1609 . . 1611 Steevens's Reprint of Quarto 1611. Collated with Quarto 1605, 1607, 1637. [Knight praises Steevens's Reprints of 1766, but the experience of the present writer is not so favorable; a careful collation of this particular play with Jennens's ed. and Halliwell's Fac-simile disclosed a number of discrepancies.—A. I. F. ] The Ashbee-Halliwell Fac-simile. [Thirty-one copies.] [See page 34 of this volume.-ED.] 1870 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. [See p. 34 of this Stratmann: Reprint of Hamlet from the First Folio, collated with Quar- The Second Folio. [Tragedies, p. 272.] . 1869 ..1632 The Tragedy of Hamlet. [The earliest Quarto known to Theobald when writing his Shakespeare Restored, and none earlier was known to Dr Johnson.] [See page 35 of this Volume.-ED.] .. 1637 The 'Grave-Makers,' from Shakespeare's Hamlet. [This is the 9th piece in the curious collection of drolls and farces, such as were presented in old times by strollers at Bartholomew and other fairs, edited by the bookseller Francis Kirkman, and entitled The Wits, or Sport upon Sport, 8vo, 1662. A second edition appeared in 1673 with frontispiece. See Baker and Jones's Biog. Dram., vol. iii, p. 414.] .. The Third Folio. [Tragedies, p. 730.] Players' Quarto. [See page 35 of this Volume.] .. The Fourth Folio. [Tragedies, p. 59.] .. 1662 .. 1664 .. 1676 .. 1683 .. 1685 Players' Quarto 1695 Dr Ingleby in his Centurie of Prayse,' 1874, chronicles Hamlet allusions in- 1598 The Two Angry Women of Abington. [Rimbault's ed., 1841, pp. 73, 81. Sir Thomas Smithe's Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia Bel-man's Night Walkes. By Thomas Dekker. [Ingleby, p. 358.] The Night Raven, by Samuel Rowlands. [Ingleby, p. 358.] [Singer's Ed., 1820, pp. 32, 33. .. 1599 .. 1604 1605 .. 1606 . 1607 1612 .. 1620 Edward Phillips. [Ingleby, p. 281.] John Dryden. [Ingleby, p. 273.] EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Players' Quarto. There are two editions of this date. [See p. 35 of this Ditto, edited by the late accurate Mr John Hughs.' [See p. 35 of this Hamlet, an Opera, as it is performed at the Haymarket. [This piece, which is very rare, is founded rather on the old Historie of Hamlet than Shakespeare's tragedy. N. & Q. 2d Ser. vol. ix, p. 379.] . |