HamletClassic Books Company, 2001 - 500 pages "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... plays of that day , says : Ile turne backe to my first text , of studies of delight , and talke a little in friendship with a few of our triviall translators . It is a common practice now a daies amongst a sort of shifting companions ...
... plays of that day , says : Ile turne backe to my first text , of studies of delight , and talke a little in friendship with a few of our triviall translators . It is a common practice now a daies amongst a sort of shifting companions ...
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William Shakespeare. constructed on plays that are now lost . Perhaps the original Hamlet was written by Thomas Kyd ; who was the author of one play ( and probably of more ) to which no name is affixed . The only tragedy to which Kyd's ...
William Shakespeare. constructed on plays that are now lost . Perhaps the original Hamlet was written by Thomas Kyd ; who was the author of one play ( and probably of more ) to which no name is affixed . The only tragedy to which Kyd's ...
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... Hamlet is to be found in the first sketch . The play opens with the Scene in which the Ghost appears to Horatio and Marcellus . The order of the dialogue is the same ; but , in the Quarto of 1604 , it is a little elaborated . The grand ...
... Hamlet is to be found in the first sketch . The play opens with the Scene in which the Ghost appears to Horatio and Marcellus . The order of the dialogue is the same ; but , in the Quarto of 1604 , it is a little elaborated . The grand ...
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... play , which offers us an example of the most surpassing skill in the elaboration of a first idea . [ Compare Q ,, lines 1222-1231 , with III , ii , 49-69 . ] · Schlegel observes that Shakspere has composed " the play " in Hamlet ...
... play , which offers us an example of the most surpassing skill in the elaboration of a first idea . [ Compare Q ,, lines 1222-1231 , with III , ii , 49-69 . ] · Schlegel observes that Shakspere has composed " the play " in Hamlet ...
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... Hamlet and his mother . In the Play , as we now have it , Shakspere has left it doubtful whether the Queen was privy to the murder of her husband ; but in this scene , in the first copy , she says , - But , as I have a soul , I swear by ...
... Hamlet and his mother . In the Play , as we now have it , Shakspere has left it doubtful whether the Queen was privy to the murder of her husband ; but in this scene , in the first copy , she says , - But , as I have a soul , I swear by ...
Contents
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Bibliography | 157 |
Coleridge | 163 |
Conolly | 189 |
Drake | 196 |
Devrient Eduard and Otto | 276 |
Kenny | 278 |
Knight | 284 |
251 255 | 343 |
Maginn | 355 |
Marquard | 366 |
Maudsley | 372 |
Taine | 386 |
English Comedians in Germany | 390 |
Minto | 395 |
Moberly | 405 |
346 | 299 |
Koenig | 302 |
Editions Collated List | 335 |
Pries | 414 |
Jameson | 420 |
288 | 423 |
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Popular passages
Page 345 - Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. HAMLET. Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Page 210 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 190 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 252 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Page 240 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 184 - tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard, But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Page 345 - Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
Page 162 - ild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Page 205 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.