The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 27.107 Friday, 1 April 2016
From: Crystal David <
Date: March 14, 2016 at 2:23:49 PM EDT
Subject: The Unbelievable Hamlet Discovery
Published and available as PoD or e-book via my website. I can no longer bear to keep this discovery to myself. It is for the world.
All best
David
I was walking through the grounds of the house where Shakespeare lived, New House, in Stratford, in a part of the garden where tourists rarely go, when I tripped and fell full length on the grass. As I lay there, I realized I could see into a broken drain, and inside it was a tiny waterproof bag, containing a manuscript. The bag was lying near the surface, dragged there, I suspect, by rats - there is evidence of chewing on some pages, and some water has got in, for some pages are discoloured. It was a previously unknown quarto edition of Hamlet, in which every word - apart from the character names - began with the letter H.
The text is now known to scholarship as the 'H Quarto'. . . .
Hamlet Discovery: pdf Hamlet Discovery text (4.18 MB)