LEADER 03871nam 2200685 450 001 9910459706903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-2356-X 010 $a0-8122-9039-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290394 035 $a(CKB)3710000000274868 035 $a(EBL)3442435 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001379230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11994264 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001379230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11355063 035 $a(PQKB)10041668 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442435 035 $a(OCoLC)898050907 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35452 035 $a(DE-B1597)456678 035 $a(OCoLC)979904972 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442435 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10953819 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682593 035 $a(OCoLC)932313264 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000274868 100 $a20141020h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHamlet after Q1 $ean uncanny history of the Shakespearean text /$fZachary Lesser 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 1 $aMaterial Texts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-51311-2 311 $a0-8122-4661-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. The Urn-Hamlet --$tChapter 1. As Originally Written by Shakespeare --$tChapter 2. Contrary Matters --$tChapter 3. Enter the Ghost in His Night Gowne --$tChapter 4. Conscience Makes Cowards --$tConclusion. Q1 in the Library at Babel --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new?or rather, old?Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed.Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things. Flickering between two historical moments?its publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenth?Q1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean when we talk about Hamlet. 410 0$aMaterial texts. 606 $aTransmission of texts$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTransmission of texts$xHistory 676 $a822.3/3 686 $aHI 3423$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aLesser$b Zachary$0916752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459706903321 996 $aHamlet after Q1$92446145 997 $aUNINA