A NEGLECTED MISDATE AND ROMEO AND JULIET Ql (1597)

VI Shakespeare

“…The defining event, of course, was the publication of the 1623 Folio to which Kastan devotes a central chapter displaying great breadth of historical knowledge and a virtuosity of compression. (Just one slip: Kastan gives the wrong date, March 1597 (p. 54), for Lord Hunsdon's promotion to Lord Chamberlain that changed the name of Shakespeare's company back to Chamberlain's men; it was in fact 17 April 1597, as Chiaki Hanabusa recently pointed out (Hanabusa 1999). )…”