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List of illustrations
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General editors' preface
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Preface
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Introduction
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The challenges of Hamlet
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The challenge of acting Hamlet
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The challenge of editing Hamlet
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The challenge to the greatness of Hamlet: Hamlet versus Lear
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Hamlet in our time
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The soliloquies and the modernity of Hamlet
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Hamlet and Freud
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Reading against the Hamlet tradition
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Hamlet in Shakespeare's time
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Hamlet at the turn of the century
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The challenge of dating Hamlet
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Was there an earlier Hamlet play?
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Are there any early references to Shakespeare's play?
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Can me date Hamlet in relation to other contemporary plays?
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Hamlet's first performances
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The story of Hamlet
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Murder most foul
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An antic disposition
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'Sentences', speeches and thoughts
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The composition of Hamlet
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The quartos and the Folio
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The quartos
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The First Folio
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The relationship of Q2 to Q1
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The relationship of F to Q2
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What, then, of Q1?
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Editorial practice
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Why a three-text edition?
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Hamlet on stage and screen
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Hamlet and his points
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Enter the director
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Hamlet and politics
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Novel Hamlets
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Hamlet meets Fielding, Goethe, Dickens and others
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Hamlet and women novelists
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Prequels and sequels
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The continuing mystery of Hamlet
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Second Quarto (1604-5)
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Appendices
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Folio-only passages
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The nature of the texts
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The early printed texts
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The early quartos
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The First Folio
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The quartos and folios after 1623
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Modern editors at work
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The written text
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The performed text
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The printed text
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The multiple text
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A common position?
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Our procedure as editors of Hamlet
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Determining transmission
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Editorial principles
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Lineation and punctuation
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Textual tables
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Editorial conventions and sample passages
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Conventions
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Proper names
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Act and scene numbers
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Commentary
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Textual notes
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Sample passages
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The act division at 3.4/4.1
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The editorial tradition
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The theatrical tradition
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Our decisions for the new Arden Hamlet
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Casting
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Music
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Abbreviations and references
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Abbreviations used in notes
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Works by and partly by Shakespeare
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Editions of Shakespeare collated
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Other works cited
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Index
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