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Notes and queries, 12/2006, Letnik: 53, Številka: 4Journal Article
Late sixteenth-century references to the "Ur-Hamlet" - a lost Elizabethan play that preceded Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - are well-known. This note identifies a further allusion to the play. It was introduced mistakenly to the printed text of the anonymous play "The Pedlar's Prophecy" (1595), evidently by a compositor who was familiar with the name. "Hamlet" is italicised incorrectly. Simply a hamlet or small rural village usually lacking a church, it is treated here as though it were a proper noun: it is the error of a compositor, on the look-out for proper nouns that require italicisation. (Quotes from original text)
