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07 1 THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE 1914 Hamlet and Orestes A Study in Traditional Types By Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt. Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford Fellow of the Academy New York Oxford University Press American Branch 35 West 32nd Street London : Humphrey Milford THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE 1914 Hamlet and Orestes A Study in Traditional Types By Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt. Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford Fellow of the Academy New York Oxford University Press American Branch 35 West 32nd Street London : Humphrey Milford Copyright in the United States of†¦show more content†¦As for Hamlet, I note in passing the well-known fragments of evidence which indicate the existence of a Hamlet-tragedy before the publication of Shakespeare s Second Quarto in 1604. These are, counting backwards a phrase in Dekker s Satiromastix, 1602, My name s Hamlet: Revenge! 1598. Gabriel Harvey s remarks about Shakespeare s Hamlet. : The true date of this entry is disputed. Lodge, Wifs Miserie and the World s Madness: he looks as pale as the ghost which cried so miserally at the theator like an oysterwife, Hamlet, revenge. 1594. Henslowe s Diary records a play called Hamlet as acted at Newington Butts Theatre on June 9. The earliest reference seems to be in Nash s Epistle prefixed to Greene s Menaphon: it is dated 1589, but was perhaps printed in 1587. Yet English Seneca read by candle light yeeldes many good sentences, as Bloud is a beggar, and so foorth: and if you intreate him f aire in a frosty morning, he will affoord you whole 1596. Hamlets, I should say handfulls of tragicall speeches. The play of Hamlet is extant in three main forms The First Quarto, dated 1603 but perhaps printed in 1602. It is entitled The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark by William Shake-speare, As it hath been at divers times acted ; : : HAMLET AND ORESTES 5 by his Highnesse servants in the Cittie of London as also in the two Vniversities of Cambridge and Oxford and