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Wright; Chambers, Will. Shah for William Shake-
speare by E. K. Chambers; Chambers, EHz. Stage for
The Elizabethan Stage by E. K. Chambers; Clar.
for Hamlet ed. by W. G. Clark and Aldis Wright
(Clarendon Press Series); Dowden for Hamlet (4th ed.)
by Edward Dowden (Arden Shakespeare); E.M.I, for
Every Man in his Humour; E.M.O. for Every Man out
of his Humour; Furness for Hamlet ed. by H. H. Furness,
1877 (Variorum Shakespeare); Globe for The Globe
Shakespeare; Greg for The Principles of Emendation in
Shakespeare (a lecture in 'Aspects' q.v.); Herford for
Hamlet ed. by C. H. Herford (Eversley Shakespeare);
Jonson for Ben Jonson ed. by C. H. Herford and Percy
Simpson; Lavater for Lewes Lavater, Of Ghostes and
Spirites walking by Nyght, 1572, ed. by J. Dover Wilson
and May Yardley (Oxford, for the Shakespeare Associa-
tion, 1929); Madden for The Diary of Master William
Silence by D. H. Madden; M.L.R. for The Modern
Language Review; Montaigne for The Essayes of Mon-
taigne trans, by John Florio (The Museum Edition,
1906); R.E.S. for The Review of English Studies;
Silver for G. Silver's Paradoxes of Defence, 1599, ed.
with an Introduction (on the fencing-match in Hamlei)
by J. Dover Wilson for the Shakespeare Association,
1933; Tilley for Elizabethan Proverb Lore by M. P.
Tilley; T.L.S. for The Literary Supplement^ of The
Times; Verity for Hamlet ed. by A. W. Verity (The
Student's Shakespeare). Eighteenth-century edd. are
generally quoted from Boswell's ed. of Malone's
Shakespeare (1821).

Names of the Characters. A list first furnished by
Rowe. The names in Hamlet deserve special study. Some
appear to be perversions of Danish names,* perhaps
derived from the visit to Denmark in 15 86 of Leicester's
players (v. Chambers, EHz. Stage, ii. 272, Will.
Shak. i. 39-40); others are borrowed from novels
or plays of the early nineties; and one at least has been