Overview

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.

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Author:   Terri Bourus
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9781800735538

ISBN 10:   1800735537
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   10 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: Is Q1 Hamlet the First Hamlet? Terri Bourus Chapter 1. Shakespeare's Early Gothic Hamlet Gary Taylor Chapter 2. The Hybrid Hamlet: Player Tested, Shakespeare Approved Christopher Marino Chapter 3. Ofelia's Interruption of Ophelia in Hamlet Michael M. Wagoner Chapter 4. Beautified Q1 Hamlet Douglas Bruster Chapter 5. The Good Enough Quarto: Hamlet as a Material Object Terri Bourus Chapter 6. Harvey's 1593 'To Be and Not To Be': The Authorship and Date of the First Quarto of Hamlet Dennis McCarthy Chapter 7. 'To Be, or Not To Be': Hamlet Q1, Q2 and Montaigne Saul Frampton Chapter 8. Shakespeare, Virgil and the First Hamlet John. V. Nance Chapter 9. Unique Lines and the Ambient Heart of Q1 Hamlet Laurie Johnson Chapter 10. 'Brief Let Me Be': Telescoped Action and Characters in Q1 and Q2 Hamlet Tommaso Continisio Chapter 11. Q1 Hamlet: The Sequence of Creation and Implications for the 'Allowed Booke' Charles Adams Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn Chapter 12. What Doesn't Happen in Hamlet Rory Loughnane Afterword: Q1 Hamlet Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey Index

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Terri Bourus is Professor of Theatre and Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a General Editor of the four-part New Oxford Shakespeare (2016–2017), and the author of Young Shakespeare's Young Hamlet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio, the role of Alice in Arden of Faversham, and Middleton's female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of Hamlet, both based on Q1.

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