Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Lond., T. Johnson.

Hamlet: Bettesworth. [Catalogued in the Birmingham Shak. Mem. Lib.; not in Bohn's Lowndes.]

Pope: First Edition

Shakespeare Restored; or a specimen of the many errors, as well committed, as unamended, by Mr Pope in his late edition of this poet. By Mr Theobald. [This, although the title does not say so, is entirely devoted to the play of Hamlet.’— Timmins.]

Pope: Second Edition

Theobald: First Edition

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

1720

. 1723

1725

. 1726

1728

1733

1734

1735

The Dramatic Historiographer, or the British Theatre delineated. Contains an account of Hamlet.

Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, written by
William Shakespeare. [Reprinted in 1864. See p. 80 of this Volume.-
ED.] ..

Hanmer: First Edition

Theobald: Second Edition

Upton: Observations, &c.

Warburton

. 1736

1740

1744

.. 1746

Johnson

Steevens's Twenty Plays. Hamlet. Vol. iv. [See ante, 1611.]

.. 1765

1766

1767

.. 1770

1771

Jennens. Collated with Ancient and Modern editions. [This collation embraces Quartos 1604, 1611, 1637, the Four Folios, and Modern Editions down to 1768.]

Johnson and Steevens

Richardson's Essays. Reprinted 1780, 1785, 1797, 1812.

An Essay on the Character of Hamlet, as performed by Mr Henderson at the Haymarket. Lond., n. d. (1777?), 8vo. [By Frederick Pilon, but ascribed to Thomas Davies in the Bodleian Catalogue. Second Edition, London (1777?), 8vo.-Bohn's Lowndes.]

Johnson and Steevens

Capell: Notes and Various Readings

Mackenzie: Criticism on the Tragedy of Hamlet

Steevens

:

1773

. 1773

. 1775

1777 .. 1778 1779-81

Robertson Essay on the Character of Hamlet. [Printed separately, from
Transactions of the Edinburgh Society, vol. ii.-Lowndes, by Bohn.]
Hamlet. By W. Shakespeare, Esq. [Not in LOWNDES, but in Birm. Mem.
Lib., with qy.]

Hamlet. [Manager's Book, Drury Lane.]

Criticism on Mr Kemble's Hamlet ..

1780

. 1785

.. 1788

1788

. 1789

.. 1789

Ritson: Remarks, p. 190.

Players' Edition, taken from the Manager's Book at Drury Lane.

Malone.

Ritson: Cursory Criticisms, p. 97.

Steevens.

1783

. 1789 . 1790

1792

. 1793

Kemble: Altered from Shakespeare; acted at Drury Lane. Ireland: Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, &c. fragment of Hamlet.

Players' Edition. 1796

Including a small

1796

Plumptre: Observations on Hamlet, and the Motives which induced Shake-
peare to fix on the Story of Amleth.
Plumptre An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet; being an Attempt to
prove that Shakespeare designed that Tragedy as an indirect Censure on
Mary Queen of Scots.

1796

Mason: Comments, p. 61.

1797 1798

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Barker: Players' Edition. Regulated from the Prompt-Book. [No date.]
Kelly: Hamlet's Letter to Ophelia versified.

Kemble Players' Ed., as acted at Covent Garden. [Reprinted 1804, 1815.] 1800 Remarks on Kemble's Hamlet.

Hamlet. Printed complete from the Text of Johnson and Steevens, and revised.

1806

Pye: Comments on the Commentators, p. 308.

Mason: Comments, pp. 427, 599.

Douce Illustrations, vol. ii, p. 200. [Reprinted 1839.]

1807

. 1807

1807

Inchbald: Players' Edition, as performed at the Theatres Royal. [Reprinted

Croft: Annotations, p. 21.
Poole: Hamlet Travestie. [Reprinted 1811, 1812, 1814, 1817, 1866.]
Deverell: Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and other Antiquities by Robt. Deve-
rell, Esq. 6 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1816. [The second and third volumes of
this very curious work relate to Shakspeare. In these will be found reprints
of Hamlet, Lear, &c. Copiously illustrated with notes and woodcuts. See
London Monthly Rev., 1816, vol. iii, p. 108; N. & Q. 1st Ser., vol. ii, p.
61; Ibid., vol. ix, p. 379.]

Oxberry's Drama, Players' Edition. [Reprinted 1823.]

VOL. 11.-26

. 1813

. 1813

.. 1815

.. 1817

. 1817

.. 1818

Barker: Players' Edition, regulated from the Prompt-Book.

.. 1820

Graves: Essay on Genius of Shakespeare, with critical remarks on Romeo,

Hamlet, Juliet, Ophelia, &c., p. 30, &c.

Singer: First Edition.

.. 1825

1826

.. 1826

Mrs Jameson: Characteristics of Women. [Reprinted 1833, 1836, 1846, 1858,
&c.].

Hamlet in English and French, with a description of Costume. Paris.
Farren: Essays on Mania. Including Hamlet and Ophelia. [First printed
in 1826, and again in 1829.]

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1832 1833

.. 1833

1834

.. 1836

Rush, James: Hamlet, a dramatic Prelude, in five acts, pp. 122.
S. T. Coleridge: Literary Remains, vol. ii, p. 202.
Burlesque: Hamlet. [Mentioned in Birmingham Shak. Mem. Lib., Part I,
Sec. ii, p. 106.]

The Barrow-Diggers, a Dialogue in Imitation of the Grave-diggers in Ham-
let, with Notes.' 4to. [Only a limited number printed. It contains many
plates of articles found in tumuli in Dorsetshire. N. & Q. vol. ix, p. 379,
2d Ser.]

Hind's Acting Edition.

Very, Jones: Essays on Epic Poetry, Shakespeare's Hamlet, &c., pp. 39-104. 1839 Douce: Illustrations, p. 438. [See 1807.]

Wade: What does Hamlet mean? A Lecture, &c. [Printed at the office of
The British Press, Jersey.]

1839

Adams, John Q.: Hackett, James H. The character of Hamlet, pp. 7. [Re

[Mentioned in Birmingham Shak. Mem. Lib., Part I, Sec. ii,

p. 106.]

1846

French's Modern Standard Drama. Players' Edition.
Ray Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity. Contributions to Mental Pathol-

Hudson: Lectures, vol. ii, p. 86.

Webster's Acting Edition. [Mentioned in Birmingham Shak. Mem. Lib., Pt.
I, Sec. ii, p. 106.] ..

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..

1848

1849

1849

Travestie. [Mentioned in Birmingham Shak. Mem. Lib., Pt. i, Sec. ii, p. 107.] 1849
Knight: Studies, pp. 57, 321. [Reprinted 1850, 1857, 1876.]
Dawson: Two Lectures on Hamlet. [First published in The Monthly Liter-
ary and Scientific Lecturer, vol. i.]

Grinfield: Remarks, &c., with Illustrations from Hamlet.
Webster: as performed at Windsor.

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. 1850 1850

.. 1850

Roffe Essay on the Ghost-belief of Shakespeare. [Privately printed.]
Coleridge, Hartley: Essays and Marginalia, vol. i, p. 151. [First appeared

in Blackwood's Mag., vol. ii, p. 504.]

Causton: On Esile.' ['An able defence of the "River" reference, but very scarce, and apparently withdrawn soon after publication, on account of its libellous character.'- Timmins.]

1851

1851

. 1851

Rice, George Edward: An Old Play in a New Garb (Hamlet, Prince of Den-
mark). In three acts. With Illus. Boston, 1852; 2d ed., 1853. ..
Collier: Notes and Emendations. [Reprinted 1853.]

Walker, W. S.: Shakespeare's Versification.

An Attempt to ascertain whether the Queen was an accessory, &c.

Elze, Karl: The English Text, with an elaborate Commentary in German. [A careful study of this volume will show it to be a very valuable contribution to Shakespearian scholarship. A. I. F.]

Lloyd: Essays. [Privately printed, also, in Singer's Second Edition of Shakespeare.]

... 1858

Collier: Photographic Fac-simile, 1603. [See ante, 1603.]

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by W. Shakespeare, with notes Glossarial, Gram-
matical, and Explanatory. Routledge & Co.

Collier Photographic Fac-simile of Quarto 1604. [See ante, 1604.]
Halliwell: [Mentioned in Shak. Mem. Lib., Part I, Sec. ii, p. 107.]
Staunton.

Bucknill: Medical Knowledge.

Timmins's Reprints of Quarto 1603, 1604. [A very valuable contribution, in

cluding a bibliography, to which the present writer is indebted.]

W. S. Walker: Critical Examination.

Maginn: Shakespeare Papers, pp. 232, 275.

1860

.. 1860

White.

Cartwright: Footsteps of Shakespeare, pp. 34, 87.

Nichols: Notes, Part I, pp. 24, 27.

Bailey: The Received Text, vol. i, p. 27; vol. ii, pp. 1, 302.
Hackett: Notes, Criticisms, &c., pp. 13, 63, 118, 191.

. 1861 .. 1862 . 1862 1862-66

.. 1863 .. 1863 .. 1863

1864

.. 1864

Clarke's Edition.

Globe Edition...

Booth: The Text from the Folio of 1623. With Notice of the known editions previously issued.

Mahoney: Was Hamlet Mad?

Remarks on Hamlet, reprinted from Edition 1736. [See ante, 1736.]

1864

1864

1864

.. 1864

1864

Kellogg, A. O.: Delineations of Insanity. [These essays first appeared in

The American Journal of Insanity between 1859 and 1864.]

.. 1866

Was Hamlet Mad? 8vo, pp. 34. [Melbourne] [London, 1871.]
Ashbee's Fac-simile of Quarto 1605.

.. 1867

. 1868

Hunter: 12mo, London.

.. 1869

Stratmann: Reprint of First Folio. [This copy collated Quartos 1603, 1604, 1605, 1611, 1637, and the First and Second Folios, but does not embrace the Third and Fourth Folios.]

Lacy: Players' Edition. Cumberland's British Theatre. Tschischwitz, Halle: English Text. [This is an elaborate commentary on the play in German, with a collation of the Folios and Quartos, including an attempt at a bibliography, and is intended for the use of both English and German scholars. It contains much that is valuable, and something that is worthless. A. I. F.] 1869