The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (Applause Books)

Synopsis

Definitions Of And Guide To Photographic Copies Of The Early Texts -- Welcome To These Scripts -- Making Full Use Of These Texts -- What Modern Changes Will Be Shown -- Words And Phrases -- Line Structure Changes Related To Problems Of 'casting-off' -- Lines Structure Changes Not Related To Problems Of 'casting-off' -- The Special Problems Affecting What Are Known As 'shared' Or 'split' Verse Lines -- The Unusual Single Split Line -- Sentence And Punctuation Structures -- Dropping A Line To Illustrate F1's Sentence Structure -- The Highlighting Of The Major Punctuation In These Texts -- Practical On-page Help For The Reader -- The Visual Symbols Highlighting Modern Alternations -- The Visual Symbols Highlighting Key Items Within The First Folio -- Act, Scene, And Line Numbering Specific To This Text -- Common Typesetting Peculiarities Of The Folio And Quarto Texts -- One Modern Change Frequently Noted In These Texts -- The Play -- Introduction To The Tragedie Of Hamlet, Prince Of Denmarke -- The Text -- The Uneasy Relationship Of Folio, Quarto, And Modern Texts. By William Shakespeare ; Prepared & Annotated By Neil Freeman. An Applause Original--t.p. Verso Includes Bibliographical References.