Andrew Scott Cairncross
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Andrew Scott Cairncross
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Andrew Scott Cairncross was a Scottish-American scholar of Shakespeare and the English literary renaissance. Cairncross is best known for his 1936 book The Problem of Hamlet, which makes a number of controversial arguments about Hamlet — arguing, for example, that the play was written around 1588–89, and that the so-called Ur-Hamlet, to which frequent allusion occurs starting in 1589, is actually an early draft of Shakespeare's play. Cairncross was born in Lesmahagow, Scotland, to Andrew Cairncr
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20th-century Scottish professor of English literature and Shakespeare expert
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