"Hamlet" After Q1
Subtitle: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 24, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812246612
Description: In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discover a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as especially noteworthy: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions ... ZQ1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things ... Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts"--Jacket.
Notes: Source title: "Hamlet" After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text (Material Texts)