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Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary

For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.

2519 Looke where he goes, euen now out at the portall. Exit {Ghost}.	3.4.136

1877 v1877

v1877 ≈ irv1 (see n. 2518)

2519 Look . . . portal] Furness (ed. 1877): “Marshall (p. 52): When the Ghost has passed through the door, Ham. breaks away from his mother’s hold, and throws himself on his knees at the spot where the Ghost disappears, as fain to catch at its robe to detain it.”

1974 evns1

evns1

2519-83 Evans (ed. 1974): “See the Textual Notes for the conclusion of the scene in Q1.”

1997 evns2

evns2 = evns1

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2: Gurr

2519 portal] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “doorway. This explicit reference, found in all three texts, makes it clear that in the original staging the Ghost did not use a trapdoor at this point but left by one of the usual stage doors: see Gurr, who argues that he enters and leaves via the central space, stepping over the body of Polonius (’Globe’, 162). This was how the exit was staged at the reconstructed London Globe in 2000, though Hamlet had dragged the body forward out of the way of the Ghost.”