The mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark; or, What we will, a tetralogy, in prologue to The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, by William Shakespeare
The mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark; or, What we will, a tetralogy, in prologue to The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, by William Shakespeare.
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Very Good. Very good, book has minor rubbing of spine and edges of cover, slight fading of spine, very slight yellowing of pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Book. Octavo, xiii, 675 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial black and brown with gray and yellow lettering. Moderate shelf wear exteriorly including small, closed chips to the edges, soiling to the fore edges/rear and price clipped front flap. Boards show mildly sunned spine and head/tail edges with lightly rubbed edges. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges, previous bookshop's small sticker to the front pastedown and former owner's bookplate to the front free end paper. Faint offsetting to the end papers. Illustrated. First edition. 1372762. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Good. 674 pages, contains a holograph envelope containing ephemera from Percy Mackaye as well as a typed letter signed from Mackaye and invitation to 80th birthday celebration. Book in condition, covers a bit faded.; 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall; Signed by autograph material.
Edition:
Presumed First Trade Edition, First printing
Publisher:
The Bond Wheelwright Company
Published:
1950
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16606875815
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Very good. xiii, [1], 675, [1] pages. Key to Marginal Symbols. Publisher's Foreword. Musical notes/score. Commentary An Interpretation of the Hamlet Tetralogy by Erlo van Waveren. Reference Notes (two column format). Note on Music. Index of Songs and Music (two column format). Inscribed by the author on the fep To John and Nancie Naumann----The friendly regard of Percy Mackaye January 51. Percy Mackaye (1875-1956) was an American dramatist and poet. After graduating from Harvard in 1897, he traveled in Europe for three years, residing in Rome, Switzerland and London, studying at the University of Leipzig in 1899-1900. He returned to New York City to teach at a private school until 1904, when he joined a colony of artists and writers in Cornish, New Hampshire, and devoted himself entirely to dramatic work. He wrote the plays The Canterbury Pilgrims in 1903, Sappho and Phaon in 1907, Jeanne D'Arc in 1907, The Scarecrow in 1908, Anti-Matrimony in 1910, and the poetry collection The Far Familiar in 1937. In 1950, MacKaye published The Mystery of Hamlet King of Denmark, or What We Will, a series of four plays written as prequels to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. He was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1914. In the 1920s, MacKaye was poet in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He lectured on the theatre at Harvard, Yale and other universities in the United States. Percy MacKaye is considered to be the first poet of the Atomic Era because of his sonnet "The Atomic Law, " which was published in the Christmas 1945 issue of The Churchman. According to the author p.655, the four plays are to be understood as parts III-VI of a "hepatology" related to Hamlet themes. Plays are in blank verse with a few musical interpolations words and music by author. Four verse plays by the award-winning poet-dramatist, treating the events leading up to the beginning of Shakespeare's tragedy: the early years of the marriage of King Hamlet and Gertrude, the jealousy of Claudius and his love for Gertrude, Prince Hamlet's childhood (with Yorick brought back to play the fool), the murder of the King, and Claudius' succession. Mackaye's magnum opus was originally produced at the Pasadena playhouse in 1949. There was a signed limited edition produced before this First Trade Edition. Few copies of the Trade Edition appear to have been signed.
