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Hamlet after Q1 : An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Material TextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812290394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hamlet after Q1DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PR2807 -- .L385 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Hamlet After Q1 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction. The Urn-Hamlet -- Chapter 1. As Originally Written by Shakespeare: Textual Bibliography and Textual Biography -- Chapter 2. Contrary Matters: The Power of the Gloss and the History of an Obscenity -- Chapter 3. Enter the Ghost in His Night Gowne: Behind Gertrude's Bed -- Chapter 4. Conscience Makes Cowards: The Disintegration and Reintegration of Shakespeare -- Conclusion. Q1 in the Library at Babel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In 1823 Sir Henry Bunbury discovered an early edition of Hamlet that radically differs from the known and celebrated version of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how this improbable discovery forced readers to reexamine accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and the nature of Shakespeare's texts.
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Cover -- Hamlet After Q1 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction. The Urn-Hamlet -- Chapter 1. As Originally Written by Shakespeare: Textual Bibliography and Textual Biography -- Chapter 2. Contrary Matters: The Power of the Gloss and the History of an Obscenity -- Chapter 3. Enter the Ghost in His Night Gowne: Behind Gertrude's Bed -- Chapter 4. Conscience Makes Cowards: The Disintegration and Reintegration of Shakespeare -- Conclusion. Q1 in the Library at Babel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

In 1823 Sir Henry Bunbury discovered an early edition of Hamlet that radically differs from the known and celebrated version of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how this improbable discovery forced readers to reexamine accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and the nature of Shakespeare's texts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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