Hamlet : a critical reader / edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Ann, 1947- editor.

Taylor, Neil, 1943- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Arden early modern drama

Arden early modern drama guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

Hamlet (Shakespeare, William).

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016.

Summary:

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key Features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history, A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play, A selection of new essays by leading scholars, A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online. To explore the critical and performance history of Hamlet is to engage with some of the most important moments in the intellectual, political and religious life of Europe, the English-speaking world and beyond over the last 400 years. From its complicated textual origins and its uneasy reputation for eccentricity in the eighteenth century, Hamlet has become a formidable global phenomenon, performed, read, studied, rewritten, adapted, illustrated and filmed more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. The essay in this volume help readers to understand how this phenomenon has developed and how it is still developing: what does Hamlet mean, and what does it mean to us? Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Critical Backstory / John Lee Lee, John 15

2 Performance History / Lois Potter Potter, Lois 53

3 The State of the Art / Neil Taylor Taylor, Neil 83

4 New Directions: Hamlet and Gender / Catherine Belsey Belsey, Catherine 111

5 New Directions: Hamlet, Cinema, the World / Mark Thornton Burnett Burnett, Mark Thornton 135

6 New Directions: Being Hamlet Not Being Hamlet / Frank McGuinness McGuinness, Frank 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index.

ISBN:

1472571371

9781472571373

9781472571380

147257138X

9781472571403

1472571401

9781472571397

1472571398

OCLC:

910412684