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Ur-Hamlet

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An anonymous English play, now lost, written about 1589. Several contemporary references suggest it may have been written by Thomas Kyd. Its original name is not known: scholars named it Ur-Hamlet (or sometimes Source Hamlet) because it was almost certainly one of the sources Shakespeare used when writing his tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1600.
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Erne takes up the problem of the storied Ur-Hamlet by re-sifting Nashe's allusions to "the Kidde" in his "famous 'Preface' to Greene's Menaphon" and offering ca.
Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd by Griffin, Eric / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
There was, after all, a precedent for such a ghost, with a white visor, in a now lost Elizabethan play, known as the Ur-Hamlet.
The uses of interpretation in Hamlet by Croxford, Leslie / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Sams also maintains that Shakespeare is the author of both the Ur-Hamlet, of which no known copy exists, and of the 1603 Hamlet Quarto, generally dismissed as "bad.
The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594 by Bristol, Michael D. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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