| [c.1625] | Shakespeare, William | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
Reference InformationDEEP #:
351
Greg #: 197d
STC/Wing #: 22278
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
Book Edition: 4
Play Edition: 5
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 52
Date of First Publication: 1603
Date of First Production: 1601 [1600-1601]
Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company Attribution: n/a
Total Editions: 5 quartos, 2 folios in collection
Title-Page FeaturesTitle: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET Prince of Denmarke.
Author: BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Performance:
Imprint: Newly Imprinted and inlarged, according to the true and perfect Copy lastly Printed. ... LONDON, Printed by W. S. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet: Vnder the Diall.
Paratextual MaterialNone
Stationer InformationPrinter: Stansby, William
Publisher: Smethwick, John
Imprint Location: W.9 (Fleet St. - St. Dunstan's Church / Clifford's Inn)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Jul 26, 1602: Entered to James Roberts: "A booke called the Revenge of Hamlett Prince Denmarke as yt was lately Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyn his servantes."
Nov 19, 1607: Transferred from Nicholas Ling to John Smethwick: "a booke called Hamlett". Aug 24, 1642: Transferred from John Smethwick decd. to Francis Smethwick: "salvo iure cuiuscunque ... Hamblett, a play." Sep 14, 1642: Transferred from Francis Smethwick to Miles Flesher: "Hamlett. a play." Additional Notes: R. Carter Hailey, "The Dating Game: New Evidence for the Dates of Q4 Romeo and Juliet and Q4 Hamlet," Shakespeare Quarterly 58 (2007): 367-87, has recently confirmed this quarto should be dated to 1625.
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