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CORRECTIONS AND
ADDITIONAL NOTES (1936)

In the compilation of these notes I have profited from
the perusal of two important editions of the play and an
interesting monograph, all unhappily unknown to me
in 1934, viz. the text brilliantly edited for French
schools by M. R. Travers {Librairie Hackette, Paris,
1st ed. 1929, 2nd ed. 1935), the no less remarkable
Hamlet of Prof. J. Q. Adams (Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Boston and New York, 1929), and Prof. W. F. Trench's
Hamlet, a new Commentary (Smith, Elder and Co., 1913).
Each anticipates my findings at more than one important
point, and to all three I tender my apologies with this
belated recognition.

I N T R O D U C T I O N
p. xxi (1. 2 from top) Insert 'probably' after 'a play'
and add the footnote 'v. E. K. Chambers' Elizabethan
Stage, iii. 454.'
p. xxiii (footnote) Add 'Since this was written Prof.
Bullough has suggested a plausible source in the murder,
by means of poison administered through the ears, of
Francesca Maria, Duke of Urbino, by Luigi Gonzaga,
the kinsman of his wife, in 1538; v. 'The murder of
Gonzago,' Modern Language Review, Oct. 1935.'
p. xxv (1. 12) 'Der bestrafte Brudermord and
Hamlet, Act v,' by A. H. J. Knight {Modern Language
"Review, July, 1936), furnishes the most recent account
of this German version.
p. xxxiii (1. 2 from foot) L. L. Schucking {Anglia
Beiblatt, vol. xlvi, no. 7, p. 205) points out that this
meaning is given in Leon Kellner's SAakespeare-Worter-
buck, 1922.