Commentary notes (CN):

1. SMALL CAPS Indicate editions. Notes for each commentator are divided into three parts:

In the 1st two lines of a record, when the name of the source text (the siglum) is printed in SMALL CAPS, the comment comes from an EDITION; when it is in normal font, it is derived from a book, article, ms. record or other source. We occasionally use small caps for ms. sources and for works related to editions. See bibliographies for complete information (in process).

2. How comments are related to predecessors' comments. In the second line of a record, a label "without attribution" indicates that a prior writer made the same or a similar point; such similarities do not usually indicate plagiarism because many writers do not, as a practice, indicate the sources of their glosses. We provide the designation ("standard") to indicate a gloss in common use. We use ≈ for "equivalent to" and = for "exactly alike."

3. Original comment. When the second line is blank after the writer's siglum, we are signaling that we have not seen that writer's gloss prior to that date. We welcome correction on this point.

4. Words from the play under discussion (lemmata). In the third line or lines of a record, the lemmata after the TLN (Through Line Number] are from Q2. When the difference between Q2 and the authors' lemma(ta) is significant, we include the writer's lemma(ta). When the gloss is for a whole line or lines, only the line number(s) appear. Through Line Numbers are numbers straight through a play and include stage directions. Most modern editions still use the system of starting line numbers afresh for every scene and do not assign line numbers to stage directions.

5. Bibliographic information. In the third line of the record, where we record the gloss, we provide concise bibliographic information, expanded in the bibliographies, several of which are in process.

6. References to other lines or other works. For a writer's reference to a passage elsewhere in Ham. we provide, in brackets, Through Line Numbers (TLN) from the Norton F1 (used by permission); we call these xref, i.e., cross references. We call references to Shakespearean plays other than Ham. “parallels” (//) and indicate Riverside act, scene and line number as well as TLN. We call references to non-Shakespearean works “analogues.”

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1733- mtby3

mtby3

2460 proclaime] “ an Proclaim’t.”

1747-53 mtby4

mtby4 = mtby3

1774 gent2

gent2

2460 melt . . . fire] Gentleman (ed. 1774): “His whole argument in this speech is fine, and his expression strong, beautiful and poetic.”

1854 del2

del2

2460 her owne fire] Delius (ed. 1854): “her own fire bezieht sich auf flaming youth.” [her own fire refers to “flaming youth.”]

1869 tsch

tsch

2460 her] Tschischwitz (ed. 1869): “her auf youth zu beziehen, wie sich aus flaming ergiebt.” [her refers to youth, as is evident from flaming.]

1877 v1877

v1877 ≈ del2

2460 her owne fire] Furness (ed. 1877): “Delius: This refers to ‘flaming youth.’”

1891 dtn

dtn

2460-63 proclaime . . . will] Deighton (ed. 1891): “virtue (in the case of young men) need not protest any indignation when the strength of passion gives the signal for action since here we have proof that aged blood, which should be cold as ice, burns as fiercely as that which runs in the veins of youth, and that reason which should restrain impulse acts as a go-between to it and its object.”

1974 evns1

evns1

2460-63 proclaime . . . will] Evans (ed. 1974): “do not call it sin when the hot blood of youth is responsible for lechery, since here we see people of calmer age on fire for it; and reason acts as procurer for desire, instead of restraining it. Ardure = ardor.”

1988 bev2

bev2

2460-63 proclaime . . . will] Bevington (ed. 1988): “call it no shameful business when the compelling ardor of youth delivers the attack, i.e., commits lechery, since the frost of advanced age burns with as active a fire of lust and reason perverts itself by fomenting lust rather than restraining it.”

1997 evns2

evns2 = evns1

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2: JC, MM //

2460 proclaim no shame] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Proclaim and ’proclamation’ regularly refer to quasi-formal public announcements in Shakespeare, as when Cinna in JC urges the other conspirators to ’Run hence, proclaim, cry it [the death of Caesar] about the streets’ (3.1.79), or when Isabella threatens, ’I will proclaim thee, Angelo’ (MM 2.4.150).”