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  • Warning The Stage: Shakespeare’s Mid-Scene Entrance Conventions

  • Edited by Emma Smith, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Shakespeare Survey 75
    Published online:
    24 August 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 208-228

  • Summary

    A stretch of dialogue in the last scene of Hamlet as printed in the second Quarto of 1604–5 (Q2) has long been considered something of a textual crux. In response to Hamlet’s tale of rewriting the commission for his execution entrusted with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Horatio demands, ‘Why what a King is this!’ Hamlet then launches into an account, in both Q2 and F, of Claudius’s offences. Figure 9 shows Hamlet’s speech as printed in Q2.

Shakespeare and Textual Studies
  • Edited by Margaret Jane Kidnie, Sonia Massai
  • Published online:
    05 November 2015
    Print publication:
    12 November 2015
  • Shakespeare and Textual Studies gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital practices have shaped the body of works that we now call 'Shakespeare'. This cutting-edge collection identifies the legacies of previous theories and places special emphasis on the most recent developments in the editing of Shakespeare since the 'turn to materialism' in the late twentieth century. Providing a wide-ranging overview of current approaches and debates, the book explores Shakespeare's poems and plays in light of new evidence, engaging scholars, editors, and book historians in conversations about the recovery of early composition and publication, and the ongoing appropriation and transmission of Shakespeare's works through new technologies.