The different versions of Hamlet constitute one of the most vexing puzzles in Shakespeare studies. In this groundbreaking work, Shakespeare scholar Terri Bourus argues that this puzzle can only be solved by drawing on multiple kinds of evidence and analysis, including book and theatre history, biography, performance studies, and close readings.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. ‘What do you read, my lord?’: Piratical Publishers? 2. ‘Remember me’: Piratical Actors? 3. ‘My tables: meet it is I set it down’: Piratical Reporters? 4. ‘Young Hamlet’: How Old is Young? 5. ‘The chronicles and brief abstracts of the time’: Young Shakespeare? 6. ‘My father’s death’: Revising Hamlet?
Circa l’autore
Terri Bourus is Associate Professor of English Drama and Director and General Editor of the IUPUI-New Oxford Shakespeare Project at Indiana University Purdue University, USA.
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