![]() ![]() ![]() The Folger Edition also combines Q2 and F1, but it indicates those parts that appear in only one of the two early texts: F1-only language is marked off by pointed brackets, and Q2-only language is set off in square brackets. Editors often choose to present a text that combines all the text that appears in Q2 and F1. Act I The play begins on a cold night with the changing of the guard. The tragedy tells the story of Prince Hamlet's moral struggle after his father’s ghost tells him that Claudius, Prince Hamlet's uncle, murdered the king. Q2 and F1 differ both from Q1 and from each other: there are passages that appear in one and not the other, F1 is shorter and omits most of 5.5, and there are smaller alterations throughout. William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet takes place in Elsinore, Denmark after the death of King Hamlet. Most modern editions of the play are based on the texts of the Second Quarto (Q2), published in 1604, and the First Folio (F1), published in 1623. He is particularly drawn to difficult questions or questions that cannot be answered with any certainty. Only two copies are known to have survived, now held at the British Library and the Huntington Library. A university student whose studies are interrupted by his father’s death, Hamlet is extremely philosophical and contemplative. The play was first published in a quarto in 1603 (Q1) that differs in significant ways from subsequent editions: it is much shorter, the “To be or not to be” speech is in a different place, and many passages appear to be jumbled. The textual history of Hamlet is complicated. A well-delineated bust-length silhouette of a rather imposing gentleman named Mr Coley reverse. ![]()
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