Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Zachary Lesser
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Overview: 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 new or rather, old "Hamlet" 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 "ur-"Hamlet,"" among other things. Flickering between two historical moments its publication in Shakespeare’s early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury’s early nineteenth Q1 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism, Shakespeare, History
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