Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Shakespeare and the First HamletThe first edition of Hamlet often called Q1, shorthand for first quarto was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this early version of Shakespeares classic tragedy is becoming increasingly canonical, not because there is universal agreement about what it is or what it means, but because more and more Shakespearians agree that it is worth arguing about. The essays in this collected volume

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