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July 26, 1602
James Robertes, William Shakespeare
 
Hamlet -- Borrowed, Crawled and Pythoned
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1602, printer James Robertes entered in the Stationers' Register, "A booke called the Revenge of Hamlett Prince Denmarke as yt was latelie Acted by the Lord Chamberleyne his servants." Shakespeare seems to have written Hamlet about 1600; more certain is that two of the Chamberlain's Men in the original cast at the Globe playhouse were Richard Burbage, as Hamlet, and Shakespeare, probably as the Ghost and perhaps as Claudius, too -- a casting economy which might have given Gertrude a start. ...   FULL STORY »Luminary Graphics, Inc.
 
 
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