ADVERTISEMENT.

THE former Edition of this Work having been very generally approved, I have endeavoured, by a careful revision, to render the present Edition no less deserving of the public approbation. In the subject, I have made such alterations as I conceived would tend to the general improvement of the piece; and the numerous additions which I have made to the Annotations, will not, I hope, deprive this portion

of the work of the favour with which it has hitherto been honoured.

The Annotations having been very currently attributed to one of our most esteemed dramatists,

I feel it incumbent upon me, in justice to the gentleman alluded to, to declare, that I am alone responsible for all their defects

London,

January 8th, 1811.

J. P.

Dramatis Personae.

CLAUDIUS, King of Denmark.

HAMLET, Son to the former, and Nephew to the present

King.

GERTRUDE, Queen of Denmark, and Mother to Hamlet. OPHELIA, Daughter to Polonius.

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, PLAYERS, AND ATTENDANTS.

SCENE-Elsinore.