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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 "Hamlet" to be essentially discrete from the ''Hamlet'' preserved in Q1 (1603). | 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). | ||
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===''Henslowe's Diary''=== | ===''Henslowe's Diary''=== | ||
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'''F. 9 ([http://www.archive.org/stream/henslowesdiary00unkngoog#page/n76/mode/1up Greg, I.16])''' | |||
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| y<sup>e</sup> 9 of June 1594||……….||R''es'' at hamlet||……….||viij<sup>s</sup> | |||
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Nashe | ===Thomas Nashe, Preface, ''Menaphon'', 1589=== | ||
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===Thomas Lodge, ''Wits Miserie'', 1596=== | |||
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==Theatrical Provenance== | ==Theatrical Provenance== | ||
Revision as of 11:43, 28 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 |
Thomas Nashe, Preface, Menaphon, 1589
Thomas Lodge, Wits Miserie, 1596
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, 1589, preface to Menaphon
Lodge, 1596, Wit's Miserie
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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