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Notes for lines 1018-2022 ed. Eric Rasmussen
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
1230 Ham. Words, words, words. 2.2.192
1231 Pol. What is the matter my Lord.
1232 Ham. Betweene who.
1773 jen
jen
1232 Betweene who] Jennens (ed. 1773): “The qu’s, 1st f. and C. read who; the rest, whom; but Shakespeare was not so grammatically nice; he wrote as people discoursed in common: at this day we say, Between who? in common talk.”
1805 seymour
seymour
1232 Betweene who] Seymour (1805, p. 169): “‘Who’ should be corrected in the text to whom.”
1872 cln1
cln1
1231 matter] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): " See line 95 (1123) of this scene. Hamlet purposely misunderstands the word to mean ’cause of dispute,’ as in Twelfth Night, iii. 4. 172 : ’That is not the matter I challenge thee for.’ "
1232 who] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): "for ’whom,’ as in Othello, i. 2. 52, ’ To who,’ and ’with who,’ Othello, iv. 2. 99. See Abbott, 274."
1882 elze
elze
1230 Words, words, words.] Elze (ed. 1882): “In Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1600) double and triple repetitions like the present form a marked feature in the character of Orleans, who, in his want of energy, bears some similitude to Hamlet; e.g. vile, vile, vile (Old English Plays, London, 1814, III, 161); forgot, forgot, forgot (ibid.); mock him, mock him, mock him (ibid. III, 187; not spoken by Orleans); till now, till now (ibid. III, 198); Oh gentle, gentle friend (ibid.).”
1885 macd
macd ≈ cln1
1232 matter] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “ –pretending to take him to mean by matter, the point of quarrel.
1899 ard1
ard1 : cln1
1232 Betweene who] Dowden (ed. 1899): “Clar. Press: ‘Hamlet purposely misunderstands the word to mean ‘cause of dispute,’ as in Twelfth Night, III. iv. 172.’”
1934a cam3
cam3
1232 Betweene who] Wilson (ed. 1934): “Again harping on the daughter; cf. ‘country matters’ [(1970)].”
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