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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 newâor rather, oldâHamlet 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 momentsâits publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenthâQ1 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.
Hardcover:
9780812246612 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 24, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house.
Paperback:
9780812223569 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 5, 2016, cover price $24.95
9780373161201, titled "A Modern Man" | Harlequin Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $2.50 | also contains A Modern Man | About this edition: (HAR#120) Very nice copy, slight spinal/cover wear.
Paperback:
9781854599278 | Nick Hern Books, November 29, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Adultery, murder, regicide and revenge break out at the King of Spain's Court, as his new wife plots with her henchman, Malateste, to kill the King's mistress and her bastard son.
9781434609069, titled "The Noble Spanish Soldier" | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007), cover price $21.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781426498848, titled "The Noble Spanish Soldier" | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $19.75
Product Description: Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication re-imagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers...read more
Hardcover:
9780521842525 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 13, 2004, cover price $99.99
Paperback:
9780521039994 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 6, 2007), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries.
Product Description: 'Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge', wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo's, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept that functioned simultaneously as a privileged literary and rhetorical form (the dialogue), an intellectual and artistic program (the humanists' interactions with ancient texts), and a political possibility (the king's council, or the republican concept of mixed government)...read more
Hardcover:
9780754656852 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 24, 2006, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: 'Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge', wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation.
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