Stanisław Wyspiański The tragicall history of Hamlet [1st edition].

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Stanislaw Wyspianski
The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke / by William Shakespeare; according to the Polish text by Józef Paszkowski, freshly read and rethought by St. Wyspiański

Krakow 1905 first edition
Jagiellonian University Printing House
184s.
3 illustrations in the text - likenesses of Richard Burbage the theater manager and William Shakespeare and a cross section of Hamlets castle
Cover design: Stanislaw Wyspianski[1 card preserved].
o. contemporary
For. ca: 19x13 cm

"The author of the treatise on "Hamlet" came from a different premise. Wyspianski believed that even the finest dramatic, directorial or scenographic ideas would not create the proper form of a true theater. Everything that happens on stage happens primarily through and to the actor: "No costume can conquer 'Hamlet' or any stylish decoration, for it is not by costume and painting and decoration that 'Hamlet' is to be conquered - but rather by the actor."