The Hamlets
Subtitle: cues, Qs, and remembered texts
By: Paul Menzer.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780874130133
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Criticism, Textual; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history; Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century; Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- 16th century; Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- 17th century
Description: "While differences among the three early texts of Hamlet have been considered in terms of interpretive consequences, The Hamlets instead considers practical issues in the playhouses of early modern London. It examines how Shakespeare's company operated, how they may have treated the authorial text, what the actor's needs might have been, and how the three texts may be manifestations of the play's life in the theater. By studying cue-line variation in the three texts, the book introduces a unique method of analysis and constructs for Hamlet a new narrative of authorial, textual, and playhouse practices that challenges the customary assumptions about the transmission of Shakespeare's most textually troubling play."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: textual debris : Hamlet and backstaged; title: Cue report on Hamlet's three texts; title: Dismembering Hamlet: Q2 and the players' parts; title: Remembering Hamlet: F1, revision, and collective memory; title: Anonymous & anonymous: Q1 and Hamlet in stages.