A New View of the Origins and Relationship of the Texts
by
Margrethe Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second quarto. Indeed, the first quarto, the least frequently read Hamlet, has been dismissed as “corrupt,” “inferior” or like “a mutilated corpse,”...