SECOND EDITIONS OF W. SHAKESPEARE’S DRAMAS “ROMEO AND JULIET” AND “HAMLET”

Abstract

. The article discusses William Shakespeare’s dramas “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet”, their different editions. For many centuries, different researchers have been faced with the question: who created these editions? The author himself or his detractors, or the actors? What came out of the poet’s pen at all, and what, perhaps, was stolen from him? The study does not aim to give a clear and precise answer to this question, however, the author of the article wants to make a number of assumptions concerning this topic. In this paper the researcher considers the first, the so-called “bad” quarto and the brighter second. The work briefly highlights the main versions regarding the origin of these two editions, and then, with the help of linguistics and linguopoetics research, answers the questions about who is the author of both editions and what they are in fact. The researcher tries to find convincing evidence of the proposed theory. The article is only part of a larger study.