ABSTRACT
The New Variorum Hamlet is part of the Nevada Shakespeare project, a re-vision of the original Horace Howard Furness Variorum, a series that began in 1871 and continued to 1928. The benefits of all variorum editions accrue, naturally, to the Nevada Hamlet (NVH), but the instance of this play is especially compelling. More editions of Hamlet have appeared than of any other Shakespeare play, and more has been written about it than any other. A history and an encyclopaedia of Hamlet interpretations, the NVH will be a unique and vital print and electronic resource for study in the humanities. The completed edition, a veritable survey of Western culture, will affirm the continued generative power of Hamlet and of all that has been written about it. Readers will, we think, want to perform search-and-gather operations on hamletworks with the New Variorum Hamlet at their side, because each type of edition offers a different kind of ease.
