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NOTES

As the textual aspects of Hamlet have been dealt with
comprehensively and in full detail in a publication
shortly preceding this, entitled The Manuscript of
Shakespeare's ''Hamlet? it is unnecessary to record here,
as in other volumes of this edition, the departures from
the original texts or to reprint all the original stage-
directions. Outstanding cruxes will, however, be briefly-
discussed, and readings taken from Q,2 and Fl which
are not accepted by the editors of Hamlet in the Globe,
Cambridge or Arden Shakespeare will be registered, so
as to make the position clear, while in the case of
departures from £) 2 and F1 the name of the critic or
text responsible for the reading will be given in brackets.
The line-numeration for reference to plays not yet
issued in this editipn is that used in the Globe Shakespeare
and Bartlett's Concordance.
The following abbreviations are employed:
Q2 for the text of the Second Quarto; F1 for that of
the First Folio; Q1 for that of the First £>yarto; S.D. for
stage-direction; G. for Glossary; N.E.D. for The Oxford
Dictionary; Sh.Eng. for Shakespeare's England (Oxford,
1917); MSH. for The Manuscript of Shakespeare's
'Hamlet 1 (v. Introd. p. ix); Sh. for Shakespeare. The
names of characters have also been abbreviated to save
space.
Abbott for Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar; Aspects
for Aspects of Shakespeare; British Academy Lectures
(Oxford, 1933); Bond for The Works of John Lyly
ed. by Warwick Bond; Bradley for Shakespearean
Tragedy by A. C. Bradley; Brandes for William
Shakespeare by Georg Brandes (1 vol. ed.); Bright for
A Treatise ofMe lane ho lie by Timothy Bright, 1586}
Camb. for The Cambridge Shakespeare ed. by Aldis
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