"Hamlet" After Q1
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically newaor rather, oldaHamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean qur-Hamlet, q among other things. Flickering between two historical momentsaits publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenthaQ1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean by Hamlet.84 The Ur-Hamlet, these critics concluded, must have been a acrude playa conceived around a abarbaric action, a aa primitive ... would have balked aat any excision of the Ghost, the mock madness, the a#39;ragginga#39; scenes, the railing at Ophelia, theanbsp;...
| Title | : | "Hamlet" After Q1 |
| Author | : | Zachary Lesser |
| Publisher | : | University of Pennsylvania Press - 2014-10-24 |
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