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 univers...

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