The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 27.107  Friday, 1 April 2016

 

From:        Crystal David <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

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)

 

 

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