380 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"4 S. IX. May 19. 'CO. 



This piece first appeared in Lewald's Theaterrevue, vol. 

 i. 8vo., Stuttgart, 1835 ; also in Gutzkow's S/tizzenbuch, 

 8vo-, Cassel, 1839; and was subsequently reprinted in 

 Gutzkow's Gesammelten Werken, vol. i. p. 233. 



" Hamlet, Prinz von Danemark ; ubersetzt von K. 

 Simrock." 



This is the 15th Bandchen of the Sdmmtliche JVerhe, 

 ■ubersetzt von Adolph Bbttger und Anderen, 37 Biindchen, 

 32mo., Leipzig, 1836. This translation has subsequently 

 appeared, 12 vols. 16mo, Leipzig, 1839; 1 vol. 8vo., 1838, 

 1840 ; and 12 vols. J6mo., Berlin, 1848 : the latter with 

 twelve steel engravings. 



" Hamlet, Prinz von Danemark ; ubersetzt von G. N. 

 Barmann." 



" Hamlet ; Ubersetzt von E. Ortlepp." 



This is the 6th Theil of the Dramatische Werhe, Uber- 

 setzt von E. Ortlepp. 16 Thle. Svo., Stuttgart, 1838-9. 

 Neue durchaus verbesserte Aufiage mit 16, und mit 40 

 Stahlstiehen, 1842. 



" Amleth der Dane ; Ubersetzt von M. Eapp." 



The 37th Band of the Schauspiele, ubersetzt und erldu- 

 tert, von A. Keller und M. Eapp. 8 Bande, oder 37 

 Hefte, 16mo., Stuttgart, 1847. 2nd edit, 37 Hefte, 1854. 



"Hamlet, Prinz von Danemark; Drama in 5 Auf- 

 zUgen, ubersetzt von V. Hagen." 4to. Berlin. 1848. 



In Both's liuhneurepertoir, vol. xv. 



f Hamlet, &c, ubersetzt von Dr. A. Jenke." 12mo. 

 Mainz. 1853. 



" Hamlet, a Tragedy. Mit Sprache und Sachen er- 

 lauternden Anmerkungen; fUr SchUler, hohere Lehran- 

 stalten und Freunde des Dichters." Large 8vo. Leipzig. 

 1849. 



«' Hamlet, Tragodie in 5 Akten, von Adam Oehlen- 

 schlager, im Versmasse des Originals ; ubersetzt von H. 

 Zeise." 16mo. Altona. 1849. 



This is in no respect a translation or adaptation of 

 Shakspeare' s Hamlet, and is indebted to its title mainly 

 for admission into a bibliography of Shakspeare. 



French Translations and Commentaries. 



" Hamlet, Trage'die imite'e de 1'Anglais en vers Fran- 

 cois, par M. Ducis." 8vo. Paris, 1769. 



" Hamlet, Prince de Danemark, Tragedie en cinq 

 Actes." 



This, together with " Le Eoi Lear," in torn. v. of Shak- 

 speare, avec des Notes de VE'diteurs Anglais, Warburton, 

 Steevens, Johnson, Mrs. Griffiths, &c, et des Remarques 

 tirees de la Traduction Allemande, par M. Eschenbourg, 

 traduit en Francais (en Prose'), par le Tourneur (le 

 Comte de Catuelan et Fontaine-Malherbe), de'die' au 

 Eoi, 20 vols, in 8, Paris, 1776-83. 



" Chefs d'CEuvrede Shakspeare; Othello, Hamlet, Mac- 

 beth, Eichard III., Borneo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, 

 in French and English, on opposite pages, with Notes 

 Critical and Historical, by D. O'Sullivan." 2 vols. 1837. 



Italian Translations, etc. 



" Hamlet, Tragedia di M. Ducis ad Imitazione della 

 Inglese di Shakspeare, tradotto in verso sciolto." Svo. 

 Venezia. 1774. 



" Hamlet, Tragedia, etc., recata in versi Italiani di 

 Michele Leoni." Svo. Verona. 1821. • 



Leoni's translation of the tragedies previously ap- 

 peared in 8 vols. 8vo., Pisa e Firenze, 1815. 



Dutch Translation. 



" Hamlet, Historisch Treurspel." Svo. Amsterdam. 

 1778. 



" Hamlet (in English), with Notes and Commentary 

 in Dutch, by Dr. Susan." Deventer. 1849. 



The text is the modern one made up from the 4to., 

 1604, and the folio 1623. 



Spanish Translation. 



" Hamlet, Tragedia traducida e illustrata con la vita 

 del Autor y Notas Criticas, por Marco Celenio." 4to. 

 Madrid. 1795. 



The edition of 1798, mentioned by Mr. Timmins, is the 

 second. Marco Celenio was the pen-name of Nicolas 

 Fernandez de Moratin. See Bouterwek, Hist. Span. Lit., 

 Bohn, p. 430. 



I have now, I think, exhausted my own lists, 

 and shall be glad to avail myself in my turn of the 

 additions and corrections of others. Dibdin, in 

 his Bibliophobia (p. 85. note), gives a short his- 

 tory of the discovery of the Hamlet of 1603 in the 

 library of Sir Henry Bunbury, and rightly cha- 

 racterises it as a " prompter's surreptitious edi- 

 tion." But the philobiblical Doctor must have 

 allowed his imagination to work when he records 

 that, " amongst other oddities, the Ghost is made 

 to enter in his night-gown and slippers!" It is 

 true that at p. 63. (Allen's edit.) we read, "Enter 

 the ghost in his night-gowne," but we search in 

 vain for the "pantaloon "-like addition. See also 

 Dibdin's Lib. Comp., 2nd edit., p. 813. 



It is not unworthy of note, as an evidence of the 

 extended fame and appreciation of the world-poet, 

 that a representation of Hamlet, from a good 

 translation into Italian prose, took place at the 

 " Cocomero" at Florence, in Dec. 1859 ; and that 

 a few days later, Macbeth, then for the first time 

 almost literally translated, was performed on the 

 same boards : Othello, I learn, has since been pro- 

 duced. This speaks well indeed : the great plays, 

 like the "quality of mercy," are "twice-blest." 

 The Bard of Avon in the country of Livius, of 

 Plautus, and of Terence ; the sons of those who 

 aided the "run" of the Eunuchus listening "ar- 

 rectis auribus" to the monologue of Hamlet; the 

 inheritors of the finest poetry that has instructed 

 and charmed mankind, perhaps brought to con- 

 fess with old Meres that, even "as the soule of 

 Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, soe 

 the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in the melli- 

 fluous and hony-tongued Shakspeare!" — 



" And who in time knows, whither we may vent 

 This treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores 

 This gain of our best glory shall be sent 

 T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? 

 What worlds in the yet unformed Occident 

 May come refined with the accents that are ours? " 

 Samuel Daniel, Musophilus. 



William Bates. 



Edgbaston. 



FOLK LOEE. 



Berkshire Folk Lorb. — Having lately attended 

 a funeral in Berkshire, I became' acquainted with 

 the following curious pieces of superstition enter- 

 tained by an old nurse who had been with the de- 

 ceased at and for some time previous to her death. 

 When I went to see the deceased she insisted on 



