Hamlet (The New Variorum Edition)
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2000. Edited by Horace Howard Furness. 0486410951 xx/473 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is new.
"This is the first volume of a two-volume edition of "Hamlet," edited by a foremost 19th-century American scholar. "The first volume contains the complete text of the play, along with a collation of the texts of all the various Quarto and Folio editions and of some thirty-odd critical editions that had appared by the time the prestn volume was published. This collation of texts records variant readings, differences in spelling, emendations, modifications, etc. There are copious notes and comments from all the editions as well as grammatical and verbal criticisms published during the same period."