Hamlet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of a prince sworn to avenge his father's death.
Bibliographic notesAs with Shakespeare's other plays, there is no "original" manuscript or author-supervised publication of Hamlet. Five quarto editions were published by others between 1603 and 1637, and the play was also included in the First Folio of 1623, published seven years after Shakespeare's death. Texts from these and other sources were used to create subsequent editions of the play.
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Shakespeare in Quarto (may be down until sometime in 2025, as British Library recovers from cyberattack), by William Shakespeare (page images at the British Library). Includes several source editions of Hamlet that can be compared side by side.
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- Hamlet (multiple editions and commentary), by William Shakespeare (searchable HTML at hamletworks.org)
- Hamlet (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at Shakespeare Navigators)
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (first quarto, 1603), by William Shakespeare
- The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (second quarto, 1604, reprinted 1605), by William Shakespeare (page images at uvic.ca)
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (third quarto, 1611), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (from the first folio, 1623), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (fourth quarto, ca. 1625), by William Shakespeare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Newly Imprinted and Inlarged, According to the True and Perfect Copy Last Printed (fifth quarto, 1637), by William Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, As It is Now Acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre (London: Printed by A. Clark for J. Martyn et al., 1676), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- Hamlet: No. 1 of the Edwin Forrest Edition of Shakspearian and Other Plays (1860; with handwritten actor's prompts), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- Hamlet: A Tragedy in Five Acts (as arranged for the stage by Henry Irving, 1879), by William Shakespeare, contrib. by Henry Irving (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet, As Presented by Edwin Booth (promptbook edition, 1879; with handwritten actor's prompts), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William Winter, contrib. by Edwin Booth (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- Hamlet (as arranged for the stage and presented at the Lyceum Theatre; 1897), by William Shakespeare, contrib. by Johnston Forbes-Robertson, illust. by Henry Hawes Craven (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
These are arranged by language, and then approximately by date of first publication.
- Hamleto, Reĝido de Danujo: Tragedio en Kvin Aktoj (in Esperanto; Paris: Lib. Hachette et cie, 1902), by William Shakespeare, trans. by L. L. Zamenhof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Hamleto, Reĝido de Danujo: Tragedio en Kvin Aktoj (fourth edition in Esperanto; Paris: Lib. Hachette et cie; et al., 1906), by William Shakespeare, trans. by L. L. Zamenhof (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Hamleto, Reĝido de Danujo: Tragedio en Kvin Aktoj (fifth edition in Esperanto; Paris: Lib. Hachette et cie, 1909), by William Shakespeare, trans. by L. L. Zamenhof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Hamleto, Reĝido de Danujo: Tragedio en Kvin Aktoj (sixth edition in Esperanto; Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, 1924), by William Shakespeare, trans. by L. L. Zamenhof (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hamlet (in Finnish), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Paavo Emil Cajander (Gutenberg text)
- Hamlet (in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg text)
- Hamlet, Prinz von Dännemark (in German), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Christoph Martin Wieland (Gutenberg text)
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Bathurst edition, 1773), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- Hamlet (French 19th-century adaptation, translated back into English), by William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, and Paul Meurice, trans. by Frank J. Morlock (HTML at cadytech.com)
- Hamlet (based on the 1887 Victoria edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study With the Text of the Folio of 1623, by William Shakespeare, ed. by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
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