Shakespeare and the first Hamlet / edited by Terri Bourus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bourus, Terri, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare & ; v. 9.

Shakespeare & ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

English drama (Tragedy).

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

Shakespeare, William.

Hamlet (Shakespeare, William).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Is Q1 Hamlet the first Hamlet? / Terri Bourus

Shakespeare's early gothic Hamlet / Gary Taylor

The hybrid Hamlet : player tested, Shakespeare approved / Christopher Marino

Ofelia's interruption of Ophelia in Hamlet / Michael M. Wagoner

Beautified Q1 Hamlet / Douglas Bruster

The good enough quarto : Hamlet as a material object / Terri Bourus

Harvey's 1593 'To be and not to be' : the authorship and date of the first quarto of Hamlet / Dennis McCarthy

'To be, or not to be' : Hamlet Q1, Q2 and Montaigne / Saul Frampton

Shakespeare, Virgil and the first Hamlet / John. V. Nance

Unique lines and the ambient heart of Q1 Hamlet / Laurie Johnson

'Brief let me be' : telescoped action and characters in Q1 and Q2 Hamlet / Tommaso Continisio

Q1 Hamlet : the sequence of creation and implications for the 'allowed booke' / Charles Adams Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn

What doesn't happen in Hamlet / Rory Loughnane

Q1 Hamlet / Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey.

Notes:

"Originally published as a special issue of Critical Survey, volume 31, numbers 1 and 2, unless otherwise noted."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare and the first Hamlet

ISBN:

9781800735538

1800735537

9781800735545

1800735545

OCLC:

1287076502

Publisher Number:

99996784404