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In an opinion shared in some form or another by Harold Bloom, and Peter Alexander, early scholar Andrew Cairncross, stated that " It may be assumed, until a new case can be shown to the contrary, that Shakespeare's Hamlet and no other is the play mentioned by Nashe in 1589 and Henslowe in 1594.

" Harold Jenkins, in his 1982 Arden edition, dismisses this hypothesis, which is also known as the " early start " theory.