The first two quartos of Hamlet : a new view of the origins and relationship of the texts / Margrethe Jolly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jolly, Margrethe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet--Criticism, Textual.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography--Quartos.

Hamlet (Legendary character).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. In its simplest form this hypothesis supposes that the first quarto (published 1603) was reconstructed from memory by one or

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Key Abbreviations, Nomenclature and Conventions Used in the Text; Introduction: Nineteen Going on Thirty; Part One: Which Came First, Q1 or Q2 Hamlet?; 1. Dating and Measuring: Initial Evidence; 2. Les Histoires Tragiques and the Quartos; 3. Les Histoires Tragiques, the Quartos and Evolving Ideas; 4. Hamlet's Return, Nashe and Some Binge Drinking; 5. Just Like Ben Jonson; Part Two: How Certain Is Memorial Reconstruction? ; 6. Printing, and Contemporary Complaints about Piracy; 7. Memorial Reconstruction in England

8. The Spanish Tragedy, and Duthrie's "Objectionable Pronouns"9. Corpses, Stage Directions and Other Anomalies; 10. Memorial Reconstruction-or Abridgement?; Part Three: Was There an Ur-Hamlet?; 11. "Hamlets" and the Elizabethan Æsop; 12. Meres and a Contradiction of Scholars; Conclusion: Closing with the Consequences; Appendix A: Colloquialisms-Q1 and Q2; Appendix B: Table of Comparisons from Les Histoires Tragiques, Q1 and Q2; Appendix C: A Summative, Four Way Comparison Between Les Histoires Tragiques, Q1, Q2 and F Hamlet; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1556-X