The First Quarto Of Hamlet

Author : Terri Bourus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 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,Graham Holderness,Bryan Loughrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : 138 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N13893930

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Shakspere's Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074917141

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The First Quarto Edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521653908

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The First Quarto of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Now available in paperback, this is the only modernised critical edition of the 1603 quarto of Shakespeare's Hamlet in print.

Author : William Shakespeare,Franck G.. Hubbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:458827232

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The First Quarto Edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet by William Shakespeare,Franck G.. Hubbard Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521821216

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The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Pdf

A full edition of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with helpful commentary.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590900258

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Hamlet by William Shake-speare, 1603; Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1604: being exact reprints of the first and second editions, with a bibliographical preface by S. Timmins by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474273886

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.

Author : Margrethe Jolly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476615561

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The First Two Quartos of Hamlet by Margrethe Jolly Pdf

It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second quarto. Indeed, the first quarto, the least frequently read Hamlet, has been dismissed as “corrupt,” “inferior” or like “a mutilated corpse,” even though in performance it has been described as “the absolute dynamo behind the play.” Currently one hypothesis dominates explanations about the quartos’ interrelationship, supposing that the first quarto (published 1603) was reconstructed from memory by one or more actors who had performed minor roles in a version of the second quarto (published 1604–5). The present study reports on a detailed linguistic reassessment of the principal arguments for memorial reconstruction. The evidence—including a three way comparison between the underlying French source in Les Histoires Tragiques and the two quartos, and the informal features and specific grammatical aspects, and a documented memorial reconstruction in 1779—does not support the dominant hypothesis. The cumulative evidence suggests that the earliest scholars to examine the first quarto were right: the 1603 Hamlet came first, and the second quarto is a substantial, later revision.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063338142

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Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 by William Shakespeare Pdf

Hamlet, The Texts of 1603 and 1623 is a companion to the core volume in a ground-breaking edition of three Hamlet texts: Hamlet, The Second Quarto Text (1604-1605). Readers of both editions have, for the first time, a unique opportunity to study the three surviving texts of Hamlet experienced by Shakespeare's contemporaries, fully modernized and edited by leading scholars. --

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616002190

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Charles Harold Herford,William Henry Widgery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101033281286

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

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139445413

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Shakespeare and Republicanism by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

This groundbreaking work, first published in 2005, reveals exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought that were critical of the English crown and constitution. Shakespeare has often been seen as a conservative political thinker characterised by an over-riding fear of the 'mob'. Hadfield argues instead that Shakespeare's writing emerged out of an intellectual milieu fascinated by republican ideas. From the 1590s onwards, he explored republican themes in his poetry and plays: political assassination, elected government, alternative constitutions, and, perhaps most importantly of all, the problem of power without responsibility. Beginning with Shakespeare's apocalyptic representation of civil war in the Henry VI plays, Hadfield provides a series of powerful new readings of Shakespeare and his time. For anyone interested in Shakespeare and Renaissance culture, this book is required reading.