HamletRandom House Publishing Group, 2008 M08 12 - 272 pages One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece of the theater. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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Page xi
... murders , and the revenger's elaborately rhetorical outbursts of tragic passion . Hamlet's shortest soliloquy , after he has been fired up by the play - within - the- play , is very much in this style : " Now could I drink hot blood ...
... murders , and the revenger's elaborately rhetorical outbursts of tragic passion . Hamlet's shortest soliloquy , after he has been fired up by the play - within - the- play , is very much in this style : " Now could I drink hot blood ...
Page xii
... murder . In the third , he medi- tates on the pros and cons of suicide and in the Quarto text of the fourth , he is still chiding himself when he compares his own inac- tion with the military activity of Fortinbras and his army ( “ How ...
... murder . In the third , he medi- tates on the pros and cons of suicide and in the Quarto text of the fourth , he is still chiding himself when he compares his own inac- tion with the military activity of Fortinbras and his army ( “ How ...
Page xx
... murders without the least compunction ; he desires them to be put to sudden death , " not shriving - time allowed " . . . Polonius , father of Ophelia , he does actually kill ; and for this does he lament or atone for what he has done ...
... murders without the least compunction ; he desires them to be put to sudden death , " not shriving - time allowed " . . . Polonius , father of Ophelia , he does actually kill ; and for this does he lament or atone for what he has done ...
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... murdered father : your mother is the guilty queen . Ann Shakespeare , born Hathaway ? T. S. Eliot , poet and stern critic , dissatisfied with the Freudian solu- tion , but agreeing that there is a problem : " Shakespeare's Hamlet , so ...
... murdered father : your mother is the guilty queen . Ann Shakespeare , born Hathaway ? T. S. Eliot , poet and stern critic , dissatisfied with the Freudian solu- tion , but agreeing that there is a problem : " Shakespeare's Hamlet , so ...
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... murder , in which she is suspected of complicity . The Player's speech on the fall of Troy is influenced by the language of Christopher Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage ; Hamlet's philosophizing sometimes resem- bles Key Facts.
... murder , in which she is suspected of complicity . The Player's speech on the fall of Troy is influenced by the language of Christopher Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage ; Hamlet's philosophizing sometimes resem- bles Key Facts.
Contents
Textual Notes | 137 |
ScenebyScene Analysis | 149 |
The RSC and Beyond | 166 |
Shakespeares Career in the Theater | 217 |
A Chronology | 231 |
Acknowledgments and Picture Credits | 237 |
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