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- Title
`THE LATE INNOVATION' IN HAMLET.
- Authors
Breuer, Horst
- Abstract
The article discusses comments made on a passage in the play "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare. In the passage in question, the prince asks why "the tragedians of the city" have been compelled to leave their residential theatre and are now on tour. Explanations have so far followed two lines. First, "innovation" hints at the current vogue of children's companies and their rivalry with the public theatres in London; second, "innovation" is an allusion to some contemporary political event, for example the Essex rising in February 1601.
- Subjects
HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); DRAMA; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; THEATER; CRITICISM; ALLUSIONS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1987, Vol ns-34, Issue 2, p212
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article