Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 Third Series

With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary, this edition of Hamlet provides: The First Quarto Text (1603) and the First Folio Text (1623), edited to the highest standards of scholarship. Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text. A full, illustrated introduction. The fullest available stage history of the First Quarto Text. A full index to the introduction and notes. A select bibliography of references and further reading.

Ann Thompson is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at King's College London. She has edited The Taming of the Shrew, and her other publications include Shakespeare's Chaucer, Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor (with John O. Thompson), and Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 (with Sasha Roberts). She has also published widely on editing Shakespeare and Shakespeare's language. She is one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare.

Neil Taylor is Dean of Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Roehampton University. He has edited Henry IV, Part 2 and (with Brian Loughrey) Thomas Middleton: Five Plays. He has also published widely on editing Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, and other aspects of Renaissance and modern drama.