OK, so according to my old theater professor the version of Hamlet we all know and love is a conflation of the first folio and the second quarto. And I assumed this version is the version on this site called the "full play". But according to this website's page where they show a matrix of the editions used to compile the texts which is here they used the first folio and quartos 1 and 2. So I mean, how much of quarto 1 was included in this full play version on this site and where is it?
I'm also VERY confused about the issues of quartos and folios. I've been reading the information in the Arden Hamlet and God help me but it's so mind numbingly dense and I have to read a paragraph over and over. :S I know that most of this stuff doesn't have any clear answers and that's probably why the stuff in the Arden is confusing to me because I lose track of what I'm reading and I can't remember if what I just read is fact or theory. But my understanding is there are only theories about quarto 1 and one of them is that it's a rough draft. But I don't know much about the folio or quarto 2 off the top of my head. In the meantime I'll keep reading the info in the Arden book. It's funny, I can read Hamlet effortlessly and I have several times but this stuff makes me nuts.
And one more question:
I seriously don't get the stuff I've heard about (elsewhere) about "folded leaves" in a quarto! It's something like pages being folded four times or something. How can you fit an entire play in that?
I'm also VERY confused about the issues of quartos and folios. I've been reading the information in the Arden Hamlet and God help me but it's so mind numbingly dense and I have to read a paragraph over and over. :S I know that most of this stuff doesn't have any clear answers and that's probably why the stuff in the Arden is confusing to me because I lose track of what I'm reading and I can't remember if what I just read is fact or theory. But my understanding is there are only theories about quarto 1 and one of them is that it's a rough draft. But I don't know much about the folio or quarto 2 off the top of my head. In the meantime I'll keep reading the info in the Arden book. It's funny, I can read Hamlet effortlessly and I have several times but this stuff makes me nuts.
And one more question:
I seriously don't get the stuff I've heard about (elsewhere) about "folded leaves" in a quarto! It's something like pages being folded four times or something. How can you fit an entire play in that?
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