The tragedy of Hamlet; . AtLondonprintcd for N;L andlohnTrundclf. Title-Page, First Quartoxxvii THE Tragicall Hiftorie of HAMLET, ^Prince of Denmark^.By William Shakefpeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almoft as muchagaine as it was, according to the true and AT LONDON. Printed by I. R. for N. L. and are tote fold at his (hoppe vndcr Saint Dunftons Church in JFleetftreet. 1604. Title-Page, Second Quartoxxviii INTRODUCTION xxix length with Horatio, who informs her of Hamlets escape fromthe ship bound for England, and of his safe return to Den-mark. In the First Quarto is a s
The tragedy of Hamlet; . AtLondonprintcd for N;L andlohnTrundclf. Title-Page, First Quartoxxvii THE Tragicall Hiftorie of HAMLET, ^Prince of Denmark^.By William Shakefpeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almoft as muchagaine as it was, according to the true and AT LONDON. Printed by I. R. for N. L. and are tote fold at his (hoppe vndcr Saint Dunftons Church in JFleetftreet. 1604. Title-Page, Second Quartoxxviii INTRODUCTION xxix length with Horatio, who informs her of Hamlets escape fromthe ship bound for England, and of his safe return to Den-mark. In the First Quarto is a singular absence of thosepassages which throw light on Hamlets motives and mentalattitude. In the Second Quarto little is added in the way ofaction and incident; the enlargement is mainly in the contem-plative and imaginative parts, and here the difference betweenthe two editions is very great and of such a kind as to evincea most astonishing growth of intellectual power and resource. A reasonable theory of the relation of these two Quartos,and one widely accepted, is that the First Quarto representsin an imperfect form the first draft of Shakespeares play,and was printed from copy obtained surreptitiously, prob-ably from the notes of some shorthand writer,1 supple-mented
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