The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0735 Tuesday, 19 April 2005
[1] From: Robin Hamilton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 15 Apr 2005 13:39:09 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0721 Dating Hamlet
[2] From: Judy Prince <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 15 Apr 2005 13:15:37 -0400
Subj: Dating Hamlet
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From: Robin Hamilton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 15 Apr 2005 13:39:09 +0100
Subject: 16.0721 Dating Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0721 Dating Hamlet
>>Why not the present?
..
>Why not all of the above? Shakespeare makes no bones about time or
>setting. 1595 Londoners in 1251 BCE Athens! The actual setting of
>Hamlet would appear to be circa 1040, the time period in which Elsinore
>was the capitol of Denmark.
..
>Colin Cox
A dash of cold rationality, and I think Colin Cox is close to where I'd
be if I weren't trying to defend the indefensible.
I think my basic point is that the Globe audience about 1600 would have
had to have had *some* sense of the temporal citing of +Hamlet+ -- when
would they imagine it to have been set, and what dramatic signals does
the play project to control this?
The eyrie of children (in F but not Q2) is a tricky point -- this only
makes sense in terms of contemporary London.
Alas.
On a perhaps related matter, would Edgar acting the part of a Bedlamite
Beggar in +Lear+ have been seen as contemporary (in English Renaissance
terms)?
Robin Hamilton
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From: Judy Prince <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 15 Apr 2005 13:15:37 -0400
Subject: Dating Hamlet
I dated Hamlet, but I'm not telling when.
Judy
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