Liber C, folio 84 verso
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 84v
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has graciously contributed the above image from their collections to Shakespeare Documented under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For any further use, visitors should contact the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers at clerk@stationers.org.
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 84v
Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Hamlet," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/410.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 84 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/410.
Hamlet was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on July 26, 1602. It was entered by printer James Roberts, under the title "the Revenge of Hamlett Prince Denmarke as yt was latelie Acted by the Lord Chamberleyne his servantes." Although there is no record of a transfer of his rights, the first quarto edition was published in 1603 by Nicholas Ling and John Trundle, not Roberts, and printed by Valentine Simmes. Roberts printed the second quarto edition, issued in 1604, again for the publisher Nicholas Ling. Five quarto editions were printed in total before 1642, and the play appears in both the First and Second Folios.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
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[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
Mr Bysshop Mr 1602 44 Regin
Mr Man } Wardens .6. Julij
Mr Waterson
8 Julij
Mr Dexter Entred for his copie vnder the
handes of mr Harsnett, and
mr Waterson Warden, a booke
called Mylk for children, or the
principles of Christian religion . . . . . . vjd
xij. Julij
Jo Harrison Jun Entred for his Copie by aucthoritie
sonne of mr of this Courte to print for the
Harrison the elder Companie A summarie of
6d in le li the Cronicle of England
to pay 6 in le li for euery
impression . . vjd
xxvjto Julij
James Robertes Entred for his Copie vnder the handes
of mr Pasfeild and mr waterson warden
A booke called the Revenge of Hamlett
Prince Denmarke as yt was
latelie Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyne
his servantes . . . . . vjd
xxixo Die Julij
Thomas Creed / Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Harsnet & mr Man warden A
shorte reporte of the honorable Journey
in Brabant by his excellency
Graue Maruice lord generall of
the Vnited Netherlandishe provinces
from the 26th of June 1602 to
the 19th of ulye followinge
Together with the takinge of
Helmont and of his marchinge to
towne of Graue / . . . . . vjd
Sources
Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London: 1554–1640 A.D. 5 vols. (London: privately printed, 1875–94), 3:212.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1259. Hamlet," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 4, 1598-1602 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 241-51.
Last updated February 8, 2020
