Shakespeare and the First Hamlet
Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Author: Terri Bourus

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-06-10

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1800735553

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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.

Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos)
Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos)

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1317867130

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The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published and it has been produced in the modern theatre with success. This new edition of that Quarto seeks to acknowledge the play's distinctive poetic and dramatic qualities, instead of comparing them unfavourably to one of the other versions.

The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet
The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-15

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13: 0521821215

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A full edition of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with helpful commentary.

Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623
Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Published: 2006-03-22

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Hamlet, The Texts of 1603 and 1623 is a companion to the core volume in a ground-breaking edition of three Hamlet texts: Hamlet, The Second Quarto Text (1604-1605). Readers of both editions have, for the first time, a unique opportunity to study the three surviving texts of Hamlet experienced by Shakespeare's contemporaries, fully modernized and edited by leading scholars. --

Hamlet
Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 1474273882

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This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.

'Hamlet' Without Hamlet
'Hamlet' Without Hamlet

Author: Margreta de Grazia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-11

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 0521870259

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A study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Shakespeare's Words
Shakespeare's Words

Author: Ben Crystal

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-04-01

Total Pages: 1347

ISBN-13: 0141941529

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A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet
A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet

Author: Jesús Tronch-Pérez

Publisher: Universitat de València

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9788437053813

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A Synoptic Hamlet is an alternative response to the editorial problems of this multiple-text play. Like most critical editions, it presents the early texts in a manner helpful to the general reader by modernizing spelling and punctuation, and emending non-sensical readings. However, it does not hide the text’s diversity by exclusively selecting readings from either the Second Quarto or the First Folio in order to reconstruct a single-reading version corresponding to the authentic Hamlet. Rather, it makes their significant variants immediately available in the line itself (offering alternative editorial interpretations of identical or similar readings at certain points). Thus the reader can have a direct appreciation of the divergence and similarity between these early texts from which the Hamlet of today is known.