Shakespeare Select Plays

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Excerpt from Shakespeare Select Plays: Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkAddress could be to Shakespeare, who was their only in his twenty-third year.We now come to something which is undoubtedly connected with Shakespeare. In the Registers of the Stationers' Company is an entry, under the date 26 July 1602, made by James Roberts the printer, of 'a booke, The Revenge of Hamlett prince of Denmarke, as yt Iatelie was acted by the Lord Chamberlayn his servantes.' This is evidently the book which was printed in the following year with this title: 'the Tra gicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, By William Shakespeare. As it hath beene diverse times acted by his Highnesse servants in the Cittie of London: as also in the two Vniversities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where. At London printed for N. L. And Iohn Trundell, 160 Coupling the fact of the entry by Roberts with the fact that the quarto of 1604 was 'printed by I. R. For N. L.' that is by James Roberts for Nicholas Ling, we may infer that Roberts also printed the quarto of 1603. When James the First came to the throne 'he accepted the Lord Chamberlain's servants as his own (chalmers, Farther Account of the Early English Stage, in Boswell's Shakespeare, iii. So that the Lord Chamberlayn his servants of the Stationers' Register are the same company with 'his Highnesse servants' of the printed book, and to this company Shakespeare belonged. No evidence has yet been discovered of the occasion on which the play was acted at the two universities, but if we might hazard a conjecture, it seems not improbable that it might have been at some entertainment in honour of the king's accession, and it may have been selected as being connected with the native country of his queen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.