DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1637 Shakespeare, William Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Reference Information

DEEP #: 352
Greg #: 197g
STC/Wing #: 22279
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 5
Play Edition: 7
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 Features

Title: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET PRINCE OF DENMARK.
Author: By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Performance:
Imprint: Newly imprinted and inlarged, according to the true and perfect Copy last Printed. ... LONDON, Printed by R. Young for John Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-stteet, under the Diall. 1637.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Young, Robert
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."