Hamlet Concordance

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Contents 1 Welcome to the Hamlet Concordance 1.1 Using a concordance 1.2 Building a concordance 2 Other Hamlet Resources 2.1 Links to Text Selections and Concordances 3 Credits

[edit] Welcome to the Hamlet Concordance

[edit] Using a concordance

Using a Lynx concordance is as simple as reading down the text, and clicking on the asterisk at the head of the line when you don't understand a word, or need help in comprehending the meaning of the sentence. If the text has been thoroughly annotated, nearly every word will be translated into colloquial, modern English, and every dubious meaning clarified through paraphrasing.

[edit] Building a concordance

To build a concordance, the text must be read line-by-line, and then words which may have meanings other than those the ordinary reader might understand should be noted. Paraphrases may be written expanding upon these with additional comments added as needed.

All readers of the Hamlet text which accompanies this concordance are welcome to make notes on the corresponding concordance pages and next to the appropriate line numbers, which may be reached by clicking on the second asterisk at the head of each text line.

The names and links to the text and concordance pages along with a summary of the action on the page are listed below.

[edit] Other Hamlet Resources

You may also create indexes of quotations, lines or subject based on any number of criteria. Of course, the longer and more colorful indexes will be created from Shakespeare's entire works. This link will take you to an index page where both Hamlet indexes and Complete Works indexes may be created.

For a full and searchable version, click here.

For an overview of the play, as well as a selection of great lines, click here.

For the fastest scene-by-scene plot summary ever, (each salient point is linked to it's "parent" line, and that's within context), click here.

If you're at the wrong play, you may click here to go to the Wiki Table of Contents, or the Wiki Table of Concordances.

[edit] Links to Text Selections and Concordances

Below is a simple table of the links to the text selections and the corresponding concordances.

Sel_1	Sel_2	Sel_3	Sel_4	Sel_5	Sel_6	Sel_7	Sel_8	Sel_9	Sel_10	Sel_11
Con_1	Con_2	Con_3	Con_4	Con_5	Con_6	Con_7	Con_8	Con_9	Con_10	Con_11

or:

Hamlet Selection_1Concordance_1

Hamlet Selection_2Concordance_2

Hamlet Selection_3Concordance_3

Hamlet Selection_4Concordance_4

Hamlet Selection_5Concordance_5

Hamlet Selection_6Concordance_6

Hamlet Selection_7Concordance_7

Hamlet Selection_8Concordance_8

Hamlet Selection_9Concordance_9

Hamlet Selection_10Concordance_10

Hamlet Selection_11Concordance_11

[edit] Credits

Definitons courtesy of AOL Dictionary Mirriam-Webster, Dictionary.com Allwords.com, and Morewords.com Dictionary of Phrase and Fable