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William Shakespeare's Hamlet : a sourcebook / edited by Sean McEvoy.
Van Pelt Library PR2807 .W4564 2006
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2807 .W4564 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge guides to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Hamlet (Legendary character)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Hamlet.
- Hamlet (Legendary character).
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 183 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Hamlet: a sourcebook
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Summary:
- Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hamlet and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.
- Contents:
- 1 Contexts
- Revenge and Tyrannicide 7
- The Theatre and Politics 11
- Marriage 13
- Madness and Melancholy 14
- Contemporary Documents 20
- A summary of the story of 'Amleth' in Saxo Grammaticus' Historicae Danicae (1514) 20
- A Homily Against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1574) 21
- Desiderius Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516) 23
- Francis Bacon, The Essays: 'Of Revenge' (1625) 25
- 2 Interpretations
- Critical History 29
- Pre-Romantic Criticism: Can We Admire the Prince? 29
- Romantic Criticism: Why We Should Identify With the Prince 31
- Modernist Criticism: Below the Surface 32
- Late Twentieth-Century Criticism (1): Psychoanalysis 34
- Late Twentieth-Century Criticism (2): History and Politics 36
- Early Critical Reception 41
- James Drake, The Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyed (1699) 41
- Anthony Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author (1710) 42
- Samuel Johnson, Notes to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1765) 43
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Bristol Lecture' (1813) 44
- William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817) 46
- Modern Criticism 48
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) 48
- A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) 49
- T. S. Eliot, 'Hamlet' in Selected Essays (1919) 53
- John Dover Wilson, What Happens in 'Hamlet' (1935) 55
- Terence Hawkes, 'Telmah' (1986) 56
- Valerie Traub, 'Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama' (1992, essay originally published 1988) 62
- Graham Holderness, 'Are Shakespeare's tragic heroes "fatally flawed"? Discuss' (1989) 65
- Carol Thomas Neely, '"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture' (1991) 66
- Alan Sinfield, Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading (1992) 70
- Philip Armstrong, 'Watching Hamlet Watching: Lacan, Shakespeare and the Mirror/Stage' (1996) 75
- Lisa Jardine, Reading Shakespeare Historically (1996) 78
- John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy (1996) 81
- Kiernan Ryan, Shakespeare (2002) 85
- Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (2002) 87
- The Work in Performance 91
- Hamlet On Stage 91
- Edwin Booth (1860-91): Robert Hapgood, Shakespeare in Production: 'Hamlet' (1999) 95
- David Warner (1965): Ronald Bryden (1967) on Peter Hall's production of Hamlet 98
- Samuel West (2001): Steven Pimlott, interviewed by the sourcebook editor 100
- Hamlet On Film 101
- Directed by Laurence Olivier (1948): Anthony B. Dawson, Shakespeare in Performance: 'Hamlet' (1995) 103
- Directed by Franco Zeffirelli (1990): Neil Taylor, 'The Films of Hamlet' (1994) 105
- Directed by Kenneth Branagh (1997): Julie Sanders, 'The End of History and the Last Man' (2000) 107
- 3 Key Passages
- The Texts of Hamlet 113
- Plot Summary 115
- A Note on the Passages 119
- Key Passages 120
- Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1-22: sentry duty at Elsinore 120
- Act 1, Scene 1, lines 61-119: news of Fortinbras 121
- Act 1, Scene 2, lines 64-86: Claudius and Hamlet's first exchange 124
- Act 1, Scene 2, lines 129-59: first soliloquy - Hamlet's private grief 126
- Act 1, Scene 5, lines 9-112: the Ghost speaks to Hamlet 128
- Act 2, Scene 2, lines 544-601: second soliloquy - Hamlet's response to the Player's speech 132
- Act 3, Scene 1, lines 56-88: Hamlet's third soliloquy 136
- Act 3, Scene 2, lines 181-264: the performance of The Murder of Gonzago 139
- Act 3, Scene 3, lines 36-98: Claudius prays; Hamlet's opportunity to strike 143
- Act 3, Scene 4, lines 53-160: the central part of the 'close' scene - Hamlet and Gertrude alone together 146
- Act 4, Scene 5, lines 16-168: Ophelia's madness and Laertes's rebellion 151
- Act 5, Scene 1, lines 1-118: the gravediggers 157
- Act 5, Scene 2, lines 213-408: the final duel; the deaths of Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes and Hamlet and the entry of Fortinbras 162
- Collections of Essays 173
- Critical Interpretations 173
- Stage and Film History 175
- Selected Videos and DVDs 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415314321
- 041531433X
- OCLC:
- 61731385
- Publisher Number:
- 9780415314329
- 9780415314336
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