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Author:   Margrethe Jolly
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780786478873

ISBN 10:   078647887
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Tables Preface Key Abbreviations, Nomenclature and Conventions Used in the Text Introduction: Nineteen Going on Thirty Part One: Which Came First, Q1 or Q2 Hamlet? 1. Dating and Measuring: Initial Evidence 2. Les Histoires Tragiques and the Quartos 3. Les Histoires Tragiques, the Quartos and Evolving Ideas 4. Hamlet’s Return, Nashe and Some Binge Drinking 5. Just Like Ben Jonson Part Two: How Certain Is Memorial Reconstruction? 6. Printing, and Contemporary Complaints about Piracy 7. Memorial Reconstruction in England 8. The Spanish Tragedy, and Duthrie’s “Objectionable Pronouns” 9. Corpses, Stage Directions and Other Anomalies 10. Memorial Reconstruction—or Abridgement? Part Three: Was There an Ur-Hamlet? 11. “Hamlets” and the Elizabethan Æsop 12. Meres and a Contradiction of Scholars Conclusion: Closing with the Consequences Appendix A: Colloquialisms—Q1 and Q2 Appendix B: Table of Comparisons from Les Histoires Tragiques, Q1 and Q2 Appendix C: A Summative, Four Way Comparison Between Les Histoires Tragiques, Q1, Q2 and F Hamlet Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

“a model of careful scholarship...an important work of research”—Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter; “invaluable contribution to the study of Shakespearean texts...interesting and thought-provoking read”—Paregon.

a model of careful scholarship...an important work of research --Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter.

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Margrethe Jolly, a lecturer in English literature and language, has been researching the quartos at Brunel University, England.

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