Modern Hamlets & their soliloquies / Mary Z. Maher ; foreword by John F. Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, Mary Zenet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting.

Hamlet (Legendary character).

Soliloquy.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 265 p. : ill.

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Other Title:

Modern Hamlets and their soliloquies

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies (Iowa, 1992), Mary Maher examined how modern actors have chosen to perform Hamlet's soliloquies, and why they made the choices they made, within the context of their specific productions of the play. Adding to original interviews with, among others, Derek Jacobi, David Warner, Kevin Kline, and Ben Kingsley, Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies: An Expanded Edition offers two new and insightful interviews, one with Kenneth Branagh, focusing on his 1997 film production of the play, and one with Simon Russell Beale, discussing his 2000-2001 run as Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Hamlet's Soliloquies

1. The Glass of Fashion

2. The Mould of Form

3. The Rogue and Peasant Slave

4. In My Mind's Eye

5. The Courtier, Soldier, Scholar

6. A Noble Mind

7. Th' Observ'd of All Observers

8. Sir, a Whole History

9. In Action How Like an Angel

10. Speak, I Am Bound to Hear

11. The Motive and the Cue for Passion

Notes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781587291364

1587291363

OCLC:

606931939