Hamlet: Third Series

by William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson (Editor), Neil Taylor (Editor)

Overview

The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text."The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play."- Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare'Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.' - Stanley Wells, The Observer"(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come" - The British Theatre Guide"Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a survey of different critical approaches to the play."- The Use of English, The English Association

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408142899
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/25/2014
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	751,296
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.
ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.
Neil Taylor is Professor Emeritus at Roehampton University, UK

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

List of illustrations General editors preface Preface INTRODUCTION
The challenges of Hamlet -
The challenge of acting Hamlet -
The challenge of editing Hamlet -
The challenge to the greatness of Hamlet: Hamlet versus Lear
Hamlet in our time -
The soliloquies and the modernity of Hamlet -
Hamlet and Freud -
Reading against the Hamlet tradition Hamlet in Shakespeare's time

- Hamlet at the turn of the century - The challenge of dating Hamlet -
Was there an earlier Hamlet play? -
Are there any early references to Shakespeare's play? -
Can we date Hamlet in relation to other contemporary plays? -
Hamlet's first performances The story of Hamlet -
Murder most foul -
An antic disposition -
Sentences, speeches and thoughts The composition of Hamlet -
The quartos and the Folio -

The quartos -

The First Folio -

The relationship of Q2 to Q1 -

The relationship of F to Q2 -

What, then, of Q1? -

Editorial practice -

Why a three-text edition? Hamlet on stage and screen -
Hamlet and his points -
Enter the director -
Hamlet and politics Novel Hamlets -
Hamlet meets Fielding, Goethe, Dickens and others -
Hamlet and women novelists -
Prequels and sequels The continuing mystery of Hamlet THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK (The Second Quarto, 1604-5) Appendix 1: Folio-only passages Appendix 2: Textual discussion Appendix 3: Editorial conventions, sample edited passages and a comparison of scenes across the three texts Appendix 4: The act division at 3.4/4.1 Appendix 5: Casting Appendix 6: MusicAbbreviations and references
Abbreviations used in notes
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
Editions of Shakespeare collated
Other works cited Index