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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2022

Emma Smith
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University of Oxford
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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.

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Shakespeare Survey 75
Othello
, pp. 208 - 228
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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