hamlet
1TEST for pasted characters from Folger Digital Texts web : superior half-brackets
(⌜bracket⌝) ; pointed brackets (⟨bracket⟩)
2Comparison: [bracket] ⌜bracket⌝ ⸢aside⸣ ⟨bracket⟩ 〈equalities〉 || top half brackets
⸢aside⸣ , pointed brackets 〈 equalities 〉 ,〈equalities〉, left and right ceiling in
superscript⌈aside⌉ , inverted commas, straight 'Tis , smart ’Tis , opening quotation mark ‘opening and closing’; straight
"double"; smart “double”, “long s” as in “Me thinks ſo too”, vowels with macron clāme
thē Sōnes. Folio-only text: Then is doomsday near. But your news is not true. FLet me question more in particular: what have you, my good friends, deserved at the
hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither?
guildenstern
3Prison, my lord*
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Q2 lord
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OXF2 lady
((Substitution by assimilation))
1288-1297
? Of kerns and ⸢gallowglasses⸣ is supplied;
hamlet
4Denmark
This is the third reference to the geographical setting of the play.
’s a prison*.
rosencrantz
5Then is the world*
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F1 world
((Testing testing))
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OXF2 worlds
((By influence of plural in previous line))
one.
hamlet
6A goodly*
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ARD3Q2 F1 goodly
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OXF2 HH Q2 badly
one, in which there are many confines,
7wards and dungeons, Denmark
- F1 Denmark
- HH Dinamarca
being one o’th’
8worst.
rosencrantz
9We think not so, my lord.
hamlet
10Why, then ’tis none to you;N
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Nota del editorYou «are»
for there is nothing*
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HH
comentario global entre cursiva
11either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is
12a prison*
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14 Estos dos versos faltan en PXXIV. Los he recuperado cotejando la Parte con el manuscrito
original autógrafo.
.
rosencrantz
13Why, then your ambition makes it one: ’tis too narrow for your mind.
hamlet
14O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad*
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Q2 bad
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F1 good
(Error by proximity with ‘good’ in previous line)
dreams.
1302.1Enter two characters. This is a stage
direction printed in separate lines
this being the third line. End.
guildenstern
15Which dreams*
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OXF2 F1 dreams
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ARD3Q2 Q2 HH rezelo
ambitious*
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Acepto la lectura del manuscrito autógrafo para restablecer el sentido.
indeed are ambition: for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow
of a dream.
hamlet
16A dream itself is but a shadow*.
rosencrantz
17Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow*
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14 Estos dos versos faltan en
PXXIV. Los he recuperado cotejando la
Parte con el manuscrito original autógrafo.
’s shadow*
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14 Estos dos versos faltan en
PXXIV. Los he recuperado cotejando la
Parte con el manuscrito original autógrafo.
.
rosencrantz, guildenstern
18We’ll wait upon you.
hamlet
19No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest of my servants; for, to speak to
you like an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended.F But, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
rosencrantz
20To visit you my lord
211319 Beggar that I am, I am ever poor in thanks,
221320 but I thank you; and sure, dear firends, my thanks
231321 are too dear halfpenny. Were you not sent for? is it
241322 your own inclining? is it a fre visitation? Come, come
461323 deal justly with me
hamlet
25Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggars’
shadows. Shall we to th’court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.
Pareados endecasílabos
26
line of verse
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second line of verse
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a new stanza- first line
Soneto con estrambote
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second line of new stanza
Enter Porter.
PORTER
40
A letter from a gentleman in Cambridge.
YELLOWHAMMER
41O one of Hobson's porters, thou art welcome. I
42told thee, Maud, we should hear from Tim.
[Reads] 'Amantissimis charissimisque ambobus parentibus patri et matri'.
MAUDLINE
43What's the matter?
YELLOWHAMMER
44Nay, by my troth, I know not, ask not me, he's grown
45too verbal; this learning is a great witch.
