Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bednarz, James P

Titel

Does Hamlet Allude to the Coronation of James I?

Ist Teil von

• Notes and queries, 2021-03, Vol.68 (1), p.102-104

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford Publishing Limited (England)

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• One of the most intriguing metatheatrical episodes in the Shakespeare canon is the discussion of contemporaneous events in what is customarily referred to as the 'little eyases' passage published in the First Folio version of Hamlet. Here, in a perplexing phrase, answering Hamlet's inquiry as to why 'the tragedians of the city' have had to travel to Elsinore, 'since their residence, both in reputation and profit, was better both ways', Rosencrantz replies: 'I think their Inhibition comes by the meanes of the late Innovation' (TLN1389-90). In her essay 'Falconer to the Little Eyases.