Shakespeare and the First Hamlet / / ed. by Terri Bourus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bourus, Terri,; Bruster, Douglas,; Holderness, Graham,; Johnson, Laurie,; Kelly, Charles Adams,; Loughnane, Rory,; Loughrey, Bryan,; Marino, Christopher,; McCarthy, Dennis,; Nance, John V.,; Plehn-Peavyhouse, Dayna Leigh,; Taylor, Gary,; Wagoner, Michael M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Continisio, Tommaso,; Frampton, Saul,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Shakespeare & ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction Is Q1 Hamlet the First Hamlet? -- Chapter 1 Shakespeare’s Early Gothic Hamlet -- Chapter 2 The Hybrid Hamlet Player Tested, Shakespeare Approved -- Chapter 3 Ofelia’s Interruption of Ophelia in Hamlet -- Chapter 4 Beautified Q1 Hamlet -- Chapter 5 The Good Enough Quarto Hamlet as a Material Object -- Chapter 6 Harvey’s 1593 ‘To Be and Not To Be’ The Authorship and Date of the First Quarto of Hamlet -- Chapter 7 ‘To Be, or Not To Be’ Hamlet Q1, Q2 and Montaigne -- Chapter 8 Shakespeare, Virgil and the First Hamlet -- Chapter 9 Unique Lines and the Ambient Heart of Q1 Hamlet -- Chapter 10 ‘Brief Let Me Be’ Telescoped Action and Characters in Q1 and Q2 Hamlet -- Chapter 11 Q1 Hamlet The Sequence of Creation and Implications for the ‘Allowed Booke’ -- Chapter 12 What Doesn’t Happen in Hamlet -- Afterword Q1 Hamlet -- Index