This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio
Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a
companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest
to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying
Hamlet at an advanced level. Both plays are edited and annotated and the
introduction contains the fullest available stage history of the First
Quarto text.