URHAMLET
Ur-Hamlet
The Ur-Hamlet is the name given to a play of unknown authorship mentioned as early as 1589, a decade before most scholars believe Shakespeare composed Hamlet, but also involving the character of Hamlet. Several surviving references indicate that such a play was well known throughout the decade of the 1590s, some time before the first published texts of Shakespeare's play .The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Ur-Hamlet
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