The Yale Shakespeare
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET
PRINCE OF DENMARK
EDITED BY
JACK RANDALL CRAWFORD
NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXVII
Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press
First published, October, 1917
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| PAGE | |
| The Text | 1 |
| Act I | 1 |
| Act II | 35 |
| Act III | 63 |
| Act IV | 100 |
| Act V | 126 |
| Notes | 155 |
| Appendix A. Sources | 177 |
| Appendix B. History of the Play | 181 |
| Appendix C. The Text | 183 |
| Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 186 |
| Index of Words Glossed | 187 |
The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the Second Quarto (1604). Only three copies of this edition are known to survive.
THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke
Willard Higley Durham
Published under the Direction
of the
Department of English, Yale University,
on the Fund
Given to the Yale University Press in 1917
by the Members of the
Kingsley Trust Association
To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Society
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