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THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
EDITED BY
WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THEUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;
AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A.
LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
VOLUME VIII.
London and Cambridge:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1866.
CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| The Preface | vii |
| Hamlet | 3 |
| Notes to Hamlet | 185 |
| The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke | 197 |
| King Lear | 249 |
| Notes to King Lear | 427 |
| Othello | 437 |
| Notes to Othello | 593 |
1. The earliest edition of Hamlet appeared in 1603,with the following title-page:
The | Tragicall Historie of | Hamlet | Prince of Denmarke |By William Shake-speare. | As it hath beene diuerse times actedby his Highnesse ser-| uants in the Cittie of London: as also inthe two V-| niuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where |At London printed for N: L. and Iohn Trundell. | 1603.
We refer to it as (Q1).
A copy of this edition belonged to Sir Thomas Hanmer,though he does not appear to have mentioned it inhis notes to Shakespeare or in his correspondence, and itsexistence was not known till his library came into thepossession of Sir E. H. Bunbury in 1821. In a copy ofthe Reprint of 1825, now at Barton, Sir E. H. Bunburywrote the following note:
'The only copy of this edition of Hamlet (1603) whichis known to be in existence was found by me in theLibrary at Barton when it came into my possession in1821. The Hamlet was bound up with ten others of thesmall 4to editions of Shakespeare's Pla