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182 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
for which “Hercules and his load,” the sign of the theatre, stands.’ 
That is, of course, they have attracted away the better paying 
and more genteel class. | a 
In the next speech, the fickle fawning of a public after the 
fashion of royalty without regard to the justness of the cause it 
represents is made the common basis upon which Shakespeare 
rises from the consideration of local theatrical conditions to the 
fuller swing of physical and psychic difficulties that beset Hamlet 
in the tragic execution of the high purpose laid upon him. 
Thus ends this valuable record touching the Children of the 
Chapel at Blackfriars. Seen in its proper relation to their history 
it becomes also contributive to certain Hamlet problems, which 
cannot be taken up here. I am however compelled to take notice 
of one item which further connects with this history. . 
The 1603 quarto,? admitted on both sides of a long contro- 
versy* to be at least maimed and mutilated, contains no reference 
to the innovation and inhibition, but does give in four lines a gen- 
eral summarized sense of the twenty lines (325-345) found first 
in the 1623 folio. 
On the other hand, the second quarto (1604)* omits these 
twenty lines, but gives the rest of the passage as a practical iden- 
tity with the same in the 1623 folio.» This omission in Q, is 
*Malone, op. cit., III, 67, thinks 
the sign of the Globe was painted 
on the river-side wall,—‘“a figure 
of Hercules supporting the Globe, 
under which was written Totus 
mundus agit listrionem.” I do not 
know his authority. 
*The | Tragicall Historie of | 
Hamlet | Prince of Denmarke | By 
William Shake-speare.| As it hath 
beene diuerse times acted by his 
Highnesse ser-|uants in the Cittie 
of London: as also in the two 
V-|niuersities of Cambridge and 
Oxford, and else-where| [vignette] 
At London printed for N. L. and 
John Trundell.| 1603 :|—Title-page, 
1603 quarto. 
*See discussions by Caldecott, 
Knight, Delius, Staunton,  Elze, 
Dyce, and others on the one side 
(that Q, is a first conception, later 
reworked), and Collier, Tycho 
Mommsen, Grant White, and oth- 
ers on the other side (that the play 
was completed before printed or 
played), quoted in H. H. Furness, 
Shakespeare Variorum, Hamlet 
(1877), II, 14-33. 
The controversy still continues 
in recent books- and periodicals. 
See infra, 184". 
*The | Tragicall Historie of | 
Hamlet, | Prince of Denmarke.| By 
William Shakespeare. | Newly im- 
printed and enlarged to almost as 
much | againe as it was, accordin 
to the true and perfect | Gopnies'| 
[vignette] At London,| Printed by 
I. R. for N. L. and are to be sold 
at his | shoppe vnder Saint Dun- 
stons Church in | Fleetstreet. 1604.| 
—Title-page, 1604 quarto. ~* 
5The only difference is in the 
transposition of “they” and “are” 
in line 324. See note on F:, supra, 
174. 
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