HamletThis edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. G.R. Hibbard argues, in a substantial introduction, that the presently accepted text is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play. Instead, he turns to the First Folio of 1623, Shakespeare's "fair copy" of the play that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. This revision of the play is more "theatrical" in the best sense of that word--it provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script. Such changes as the omission of Horatio's account of the omens preceding Caesar's assassination, and Hamlet's on the drunkenness of Danes, give the play new momentum, and lend credence to Hibbard's claim that the familiar conflated text of Hamlet is a much more "problematic" play than it appears to have been in the First Folio. |
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Page 58
... murder of old Hamlet by Claudius . This new knowledge has led him to suspect , as we now discover , that his mother was in some way privy to the murder . Up to this point he has held his tongue , but not quite . He has most unfairly and ...
... murder of old Hamlet by Claudius . This new knowledge has led him to suspect , as we now discover , that his mother was in some way privy to the murder . Up to this point he has held his tongue , but not quite . He has most unfairly and ...
Page 72
... murder of Gonsago ' ( E4 ' ) , he now tells Claudius : ' this play is | The image of a murder done in guyana , Albertus | Was the Dukes name , his wife Baptista ' ( F4 ' ) ; and then , to add to the confusion , he goes on to say that ...
... murder of Gonsago ' ( E4 ' ) , he now tells Claudius : ' this play is | The image of a murder done in guyana , Albertus | Was the Dukes name , his wife Baptista ' ( F4 ' ) ; and then , to add to the confusion , he goes on to say that ...
Page 261
... murder Baptista In October 1538 Francesco Maria della Rovere , Duke of Urbino died after an illness that had lasted some six weeks . It was rumoured that he had been murdered by his barber- surgeon , suborned to pour poison into his ...
... murder Baptista In October 1538 Francesco Maria della Rovere , Duke of Urbino died after an illness that had lasted some six weeks . It was rumoured that he had been murdered by his barber- surgeon , suborned to pour poison into his ...
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