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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1917)
William Shakespeare, edited by Jack Randall Crawford

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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.

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