셰익스피어 자신이 햄릿에 주석을 달았을 수도 있다는 연구/ 존 카슨 (John Casson)/ 영국도서관 저널/ /가디언지 보도

http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2016articles/pdf/ebljarticle72016.pdf

셰익스피어 자신이 'Hamlet'서적에 주석을 달았을 수도 있습니다.

John Casson François de Belleforest’s Le Cinquiesme Livre des Histoires Tragiques is the underlying source for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume of Les Histoires Tragiques was published in 1576 in Lyon and republished in Paris in 1582. There are copies of both in the British Library. The earlier edition is thought to be the source for the play. Stabler pointed out that the 1576 edition is occasionally more like Shakespeare than the 1582 text.1 The story of ‘Amleth’ is told in the third section of Le Cinquiesme Livre des Histoires Tragiques. The earliest mention of a play of Hamlet is Thomas Nashe’s 1589 reference to ‘whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of Tragicall speeches’. The play as we know it was either written or revised circa 1601. Nashe’s reference would suggest Hamlet first appeared on stage at some time between 1577 and 1588. New evidence has recently emerged that the so called Ur Hamlet may actually have been an early version by Shakespeare himself and this is still extant as the First Quarto (Q1) which was published in 1603. Jolly provided clear evidence that the First Quarto is closer to the Belleforest text than the Second Quarto (Q2) and First Folio versions of the play.2 In the British Library there are eight volumes of Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques. These editions range from 1571 to 1616 (BL, C8.a.1-8) including that printed in Lyon in 1576 (C.8.a.5). This was in the King’s Library but there is no evidence for its provenance before it was obtained by George III. This 1576 volume has some marginal annotations. The annotations are either underlinings, the letter Y, dots or a dash, all drawing attention to sections of the text. Most of these occur in the third section which tells the story of Amleth, the original Hamlet. There are also three annotations in the fifth section which is about the reign of Canute. None of the other volumes of Belleforest in the British Library has any marginal annotations. Furthermore none of the five copies of Le Cinquiesme Livre des Histoires Tragiques in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, which are dated between 1572 and 1604, have any such annotations.3 The single copy of Le Cinquiesme Livre dated 1581 in the John Rylands Library,4 Manchester, is also clean. Thus it can be seen that the British Library copy is the only 1576 edition that has any annotations.5