When does the OED3 think "Hamlet" was written?

[Shapiro, Fred]

OED datings are based on dates of publication.  The OED is to be commended for taking the care to distinguish between the different dates of publication and different content of the First Quarto and Second Quarto of Hamlet.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: When does the OED3 think "Hamlet" was written?

Under "Polack, n. and adj.", updated September 2006, there are two
quotations from "Hamlet":

1603   Shakespeare Hamlet II. ii. 63   His nephews leuies..a
preparation gainst the Polacke.  (Under A. n. 1.)
1604   Shakespeare Hamlet V. ii. 330   You from the Pollack warres,
and you from England Are heere arriued.   (Under B. adj.)

Did it take Shakespeare a year to write Acts III, IV, and V, after he
published Acts I and II?

Joel

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