Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Lesser, Zachary
Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Lesser, Zachary

Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text

In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet...
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Author: Zachary Lesser
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Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Lesser, Zachary

Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text

$69.31
Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Lesser, Zachary

Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text

$69.31
Author: Zachary Lesser
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

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 when we talk about Hamlet.

Author: Zachary Lesser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01/05/2016
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780812223569

About the Author
Zachary Lesser is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade.
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