All The Mysteries That Remain

All The Mysteries That Remain

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How the Theory of Evolution Led to the North/Shakespeare Discovery

How the Theory of Evolution Led to the North/Shakespeare Discovery

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During my research on the origins of Hamlet, however, I ran into a problem. Every work that I had read about it—and, indeed, nearly every foreword to every edition of Hamlet—mentioned an earlier “lost play on the topic,” the Ur-Hamlet, as it is often called.

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Hamlet on Galapagos

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