Shakespeare: Protean Plays Final
Tyler Stoltenberg
English 339: Special Topics
Professor Wendy Wall
June 2008
Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1 Lines 168-223
Differences in Quarto 1
This line is from Quarto 1, I replacing ""and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body."
I chose to replace it in my text to add a little variation to one of the gravediggers witty lines. I would never think about changing any of the more recognizable lines that are a little later in the scene.
Q1 and Q2 are almost identical except for the ordering of some of the lines- Hamlet's madness is discuss a little later in Q1, and Q1 is obviously shorter.
Other notable differences:
Q2- "and now how abhorred in my imagination it is"
Folio- "and how abhorred my imagination is"
Line 200
F- "table"
Q2- "chamber"
Dates were changed in the timeline between Q1 and Q2, this is discussed on another page.
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