NP but Shakespeare and that upstart crow, TRP, in The Crying of Lot 49

[Mark Kohut]

This is a long, but wonderful, piece on the scholarly dispute and new
perspective
 around one of the printed editions of Hamlet that exist. The disputation
over
editions of that seminal play have led the new Norton editor-- Stephen
Greenblatt--
to PUT ALL THREE VERSIONS into the new edition of the Norton Shakespeare!

Here is IT in a nutshell. One version, the Quarto's--[Badass,
great]--provenance has been
unknown. A new immersive scholar argues that it was Shakespeare's FIRST
version of
the play, written maybe ten years before it was known to be performed not
one of the later emendations after the Folio first(s)
Play sympathetic detective below if interested but,

for Pynchon purposes, ain't it cool that that central conceit of *Lot 49,*
a disputed revenge tragedy
play, which varied even in performance as well as in a couple of printed
places, is
SO so played out here? Bet Pynchon knew of the various versions back in the
sixties, yes?

Seems there were a lot of actors and theater-goers who took notes at
performances
since no scripts were printed. Some of which were used to print the
editions, and collate the editions  when printed, argues our expert.


http://chronicle.com/article/Shakespeare-s-Badass-Quarto/235158/
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