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Observations on Hamlet : and on the motives which most probably induced Shakespeare to fix upon the story of Amleth, from the Danish chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the plot of that tragedy; being an attempt to prove that he designed it as an indirect censure on Mary queen of Scots / by James Plumptre.

Accession number
PML 7653.1
Creator
Plumptre, James, 1770-1832.
Published
Cambridge : Printed by J. Burges, printer to the University, 1796.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Imprint continues: "and sold by W.H. Lunn and J. Deighton, Cambridge; Crouse, Stevenson, and Matchett, Norwich; G.GJ. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-row; T. Hookham, Bond-street; and T. Egerton, White-Hall, London.
Description
44 pages ; 23 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Half red morocco by F. Bedford.
Classification
Book
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Department
Printed Books