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The character of Hamlet / by ex-President Adams and James H. Hackett ; edited by a lady.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 14 no 4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, author.
- Hackett, James Henry, 1800-1871, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Character of Hamlet
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Hamlet.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Hamlet (Legendary character).
- Hamlet.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet--History and criticism.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Hamlet (Shakespeare, William).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 7 pages ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Joseph H. Jennings, Printer, No. 111 Fulton Street, 1844.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published for the Proprietor, by J. Mowatt, 174 Broadway, 1844.
- Summary:
- Published letter from John Q. Adams to James H. Hackett on Hamlet, dated February 19, 1839, and Hackett's response to Adams, dated July 24, 1839.
- Notes:
- Editor identified in manuscript note [by W. Barton?] bound with Boston Public Library copy, "In a copy given to me by Richard Grant White, that gentleman had written the following note [identifying 'a lady':] 'Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt, though in what her editing consisted, except in a very careless and ignorant proof reading, it would puzzle the Devil and Dr. Faustus to discover.'"
- Text previously circulated as a facsimile manuscript lithographed for Hackett by G.E. Madeley, 1839.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Horace Howard Furness Jr.
- Kislak Center copy formerly cataloged as Furness Pam C94.17 Ad1M
- Other Format:
- Online version: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. Character of Hamlet.
- OCLC:
- 8189241
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