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  • The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

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    The Talisman introduction (1825). Source of the expression "Hamlet without the Prince." The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes that W. J. Parke, in Musical Memories (1830), "gives a similar anecdote from 1787."
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