Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214499 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover
THE CRITICAL EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE

With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary, this edition of Hamlet
provides:

- The First Quarto Text (1603) and the First Folio Text (1623), edited to
the highest standards of scholarship.
- Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text.
- A full, illustrated introduction
- The fullest available stage history of the First Quarto Text
- A full index to the introduction and note
- A select bibliography of references and further reading.

Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 is a companion to the core Arden volume
Hamlet: The Second Quarto Text (1604-1505). Together, these volumes make
up Arden's ground-breaking edition of three Hamlet texts. Readers of both
editions have, for the first time, a unique opportunity to study the three
surviving texts of Hamlet experienced by Shakespeare's contemporaries,
fully modernized and edited by leading scholars.

About the Author
Ann Thompson is Professor of English and Head of the School of
Humanities at King's College London. She is also a General Editor of The
Arden Shakespeare.

Neil Taylor is Dean of Research at Roehampton University.