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==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues== | ==Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues== | ||
1514: Saxo Grammaticus, ''Danorum regum heroumque historiae'' | 1514: Saxo Grammaticus, ''Danorum regum heroumque historiae'' | ||
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1570: Francois de Belleforest, ''Histoires tragiques'', vol 5 | 1570: Francois de Belleforest, ''Histoires tragiques'', vol 5 | ||
==References to the Play== | |||
===Nashe, Preface, ''Menaphon'', 1589=== | |||
Thomas Nashe provided a preface entitled "To the Genlemen Students ''of both Uniuersities''" to ''Menaphon'' by Robert Greene (1589). In that preface, Nashe addressed issues of writing style, in the course of which he said the following: | |||
<blockquote>It is a common practise now a dayes amongst a sort of shifting companions, that runne through euery Art and thriue by none, to leaue the trade of ''Nouerint'', whereto they were borne, and busie themselues with the indeuours of Art that could scarcely Latinize their neck verse if they should haue need; yet English ''Seneca'' read by Candle-light yeelds many good sentences, as ''Blood is a begger'', and so forth; and if you intreate him faire in a frosty morning, hee will affoord you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of Tragicall speeches. But O griefe! | |||
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McKerrow: http://archive.org/stream/worksthomasnash00unkngoog#page/n326/mode/2up | |||
EEBO durable URL: http://gateway.proquest.com.rp.nla.gov.au/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99841534 | |||
===Lodge, ''Wits Miserie'', 1596=== | |||
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==Critical Commentary== | ==Critical Commentary== | ||
Revision as of 12:42, 29 November 2012
Historical Records
The LPD treats the play documented by the entry in Henslowe's Diary and alluded to by Nashe (1589) and Lodge (1596) as the same play; it considers this early version of the Hamlet story—universally and hereinafter called the "Ur-Hamlet"— to be essentially discrete from the Hamlet preserved in Q1 (1603).
Henslowe's Diary
F. 9 (Greg, I.16)
| ye 9 of June 1594 | ………. | Res at hamlet | ………. | viijs |
Theatrical Provenance
A London venue c. 1589
Newington 1594
The Theater in Shoreditch c. 1596
Probable Genre(s)
Tragedy
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
1514: Saxo Grammaticus, Danorum regum heroumque historiae
1570: Francois de Belleforest, Histoires tragiques, vol 5
References to the Play
Nashe, Preface, Menaphon, 1589
Thomas Nashe provided a preface entitled "To the Genlemen Students of both Uniuersities" to Menaphon by Robert Greene (1589). In that preface, Nashe addressed issues of writing style, in the course of which he said the following:
It is a common practise now a dayes amongst a sort of shifting companions, that runne through euery Art and thriue by none, to leaue the trade of Nouerint, whereto they were borne, and busie themselues with the indeuours of Art that could scarcely Latinize their neck verse if they should haue need; yet English Seneca read by Candle-light yeelds many good sentences, as Blood is a begger, and so forth; and if you intreate him faire in a frosty morning, hee will affoord you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of Tragicall speeches. But O griefe!
McKerrow: http://archive.org/stream/worksthomasnash00unkngoog#page/n326/mode/2up EEBO durable URL: http://gateway.proquest.com.rp.nla.gov.au/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99841534
Lodge, Wits Miserie, 1596
EEBO durable URL: http://gateway.proquest.com.rp.nla.gov.au/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99845282
Critical Commentary
Authorship
Relation to Q1
Projected Content
For What It's Worth
Works Cited
Boas
Erne
Honigmann
Malone
Menzer
Robertson
Sams
Smith
Urkowitz
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