Hamlet First Quarto 1603

Author : William Shakespeare,Graham Holderness,Bryan Loughrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317867142

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Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos) by William Shakespeare,Graham Holderness,Bryan Loughrey Pdf

The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published and it has been produced in the modern theatre with success. This new edition of that Quarto seeks to acknowledge the play's distinctive poetic and dramatic qualities, instead of comparing them unfavourably to one of the other versions.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1603
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1001034406

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Hamlet, First Quarto, 1603 by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1243783877

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Hamlet: the First Quarto, 1603 by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0859677087

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Hamlet First Quarto 1603 Opxxx by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Terri Bourus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800735552

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Shakespeare and the First Hamlet by Terri Bourus Pdf

The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this early version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is becoming increasingly canonical, not because there is universal agreement about what it is or what it means, but because more and more Shakespearians agree that it is worth arguing about. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with his contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000097595

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Shakespeare's Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Charles Harold Herford,William Henry Widgery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082527709

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The First Quarto Edition of Hamlet, 1603 by Charles Harold Herford,William Henry Widgery Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Denmark
ISBN : UOM:39015011905158

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Shakespeare's Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590900200

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Shakspere's Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:219870314

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632105071

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314750312

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Shakespeare's Hamlet. The First Quarto 1603. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Pdf

Author : Thomas Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015025195846

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The Hamlet First Published (Q1, 1603) by Thomas Clayton Pdf

And even within itself it is a play divided: some parts are identical to the Second Quarto and the Hamlet most familiar to readers, but others are either unique or so different in expression (inferior?) that the differences are hard to explain, because "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"--As Hamlet himself says--in the Folio, but not in Q2 or Q1. "To be, or not to be, I there's the point." It is not a matter of asking the "real" Hamlet to (please) stand up--all the Hamlets are real--but of determining what historical realities these Hamlets do or may represent, how they came to be as they are. Is Q1 the record of an early draft, incompletely revised by Shakespeare, for example, or the product of an actor's variable memory? Reflecting on these and related problems with a view to solution is the purpose of the present collection.

Author : Charles Harold Herford,William Henry Widgery
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021770043

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The First Quarto Edition Of Hamlet, 1603 by Charles Harold Herford,William Henry Widgery Pdf

This book is a detailed historical analysis of the first quarto edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which was published in 1603. Charles Harold Herford and William Henry Widgery provide literary and historical context for the play, offering insightful commentary on its sources, themes, and characters. This volume is an important contribution to the study of Shakespearean literature and will be of interest to scholars and students alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anna Faktorovich,William Percy,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681145901

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Hamlet (First Quarto: 1603) by Anna Faktorovich,William Percy,William Shakespeare Pdf

The censored satirical or "bad" version of the "Shakespeare" classic that features a homosexual affair between Hamlet and Horatio, and Ofelia's deflowering to feign heterosexual normalcy.The standard summary of Hamlet describes it as a "tragedy" about a "mad" or "tormented" Prince of Denmark, who follows the solicitation of the Ghost of his assassinated father to revenge-murder his incestuous and homicidal uncle Claudius. The commentary that accompanies this never-before fully-modernized First Quarto of Hamlet explains how it was initially designed to be a satire that diverged from Saxo Grammaticus' Danish History where Amleth pretends to be mad not only to execute revenge but also to successfully win the crown from his uncle. The First Quarto subtracts any desire for the crown from Hamlet, and instead subversively explains that Hamlet is motivated to feign madness and to deflower Ofelia to disguise his outlawed homosexual love for Horatio. Hamlet makes no direct expressions of attraction towards Ofelia's beauty. And in the resolution, Horatio offers to poison himself to death when he learns Hamlet is dying. The satirical perspective of this history is especially apparent in the cemetery scene where the Clown 1 gravedigger sifts through a mass-grave to help Hamlet find a dried skull among those that are still decomposing. The heavy re-write between the 1603 and 1604 editions of Hamlet also help to show Percy's re-writing habit that confirms the attribution to him of diverging versions of anonymous and then "Shakespeare"-bylined versions of Leir/ Lear, and Tragedy of/ Richard III.