Hamlet

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This is one of Shakespeare´s best-known tragedies. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, learns in a visitation from his father´s ghost that his mother is married to the uncle who murdered his father. In coming to terms with this, and enacting his revenge, his beloved Ophelia and her father are killed. In a duel to avenge Ophelia´s father´s death, both Hamlet and his opponent, Laertes, are struck by a sword that has been dipped in poison. Hamlet´s mother mistakenly drinks from the cup of poison inten

This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both plays are edited and annotated and the introduction contains the fullest available stage history of the First Quarto text.