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Ur-Hamlet

The Ur-Hamlet (the German prefix Ur- means "original") is a play by an unknown author, thought to be either Thomas Kyd or William Shakespeare. No copy of the play, dated by scholars to the second half of 1587, survives today. The play was staged in London, more specifically at The Theatre in Shoreditch as recalled by Elizabethan author Thomas Lodge. It includes a character named Hamlet; the only other known character from the play is a ghost who, according to Thomas Lodge in his 1596 publication Wits Misery and the Worlds Madnesse, cries "Hamlet, revenge!"[1]

  1. ^ Reference to early Hamlet play in Lodge's Wit's Misery, 1596, British Library: Lodge, Thomas. Wits Miserie and the Worlds Madnesse: Discovering the Devils Incarnat of this Age. Printed by Adam Islip in London (1596)

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