For those of you who would like to skip reading the play, we suggest you read Volume I's Introduction, and Alex Jack's five commentaries (below), especially The Three Versions of the "Wicked" Whitgift Passage before going on to read his Volume II which gives a most complete analyses of the play as written in Christopher Marlowe's historical context.
Hamlet By Marlowe And Shakespear: Volume 1
ISBN: 0970891369
The first volume of this Special 400th Anniversary Edition of Hamlet presents the text of the play along with parallels from Kit's early work and a summary of the evidence for his survival and what can be called "The Shakespere Compact," the arrangement under which he and Shakespeare became collaborators.
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Hamlet Volume 1
CONTENTS
Principal Sources 4
Chronology 6
Introduction: Sage requiem
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare 17 (play cover page)
Dramatis Personae 18 (list of principle characters)
The Play: Act 1, Scene 1 19-42
Act 2, Scene 1 43-60
Act 3, Scene 1-3 61-83
Act 4, Scene 1-7 84-101
Act 5 Scene 1-2 102-120
The Prologue to the German Hamlet 121-122
Alex Jack's Five Commentaries
1. Three Versions of the "Wicked" Whitgift Passage 123
2. Shakespeare's Literary Fingerprint 124
3. Echoes Between Hamlet and Marlowe 125-142
4. The Shakespeare Compact 143-155
5. The Early Marlovian and Shakespearean Works 156-158
Resources 159
Quick Order Form 160