SOURCE: Ormsby-Lennon, Theresa Suriano. “Piccolo, Ma Con Gran Vagghezza: A New Source for Hamlet?” Library Chronicle 41 (1977): 119-48.
In the following essay, Ormsby-Lennon explores the question of whether Shakespeare read Saxo's account of Hamlet directly or in an edited and translated version made by Remigio Nannini, a sixteenth-century Dominican.
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