Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)

Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)

• Used Book in Good Condition

<DIV><DIV>This self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text.  In his illustrated introduction to the play€s historical, cultural, and performance contexts, Neil Taylor presents a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play.  He addresses the challenges faced in reading, editing, or acting a play with the depth of content and tradition that <I>Hamlet </I>possesses.  He also establishes the historical and cultural context in which the play was written and explains the arguments about the merits and deficiencies of the First and Second Quarto and the First Folio.  Taylor points to the many novelists, both men and women, whose work refers to or bears commonalities with <I>Hamlet</I>, to suggest an ongoing to need to resolve "the continuing mystery of <I>Hamlet</I>" in print and on stage.  An appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text, and other appendices on the editorial process, the traditions regarding the act division at 3.4/4.1, casting, and music are also included.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><P><B>Table of Contents<br><br></B>List of illustrations<br>General editors€ preface<br>Preface<br><br>INTRODUCTION <br>The challenges of <I>Hamlet<br></I>    The challenge of acting <I>Hamlet</I><br>    The challenge of editing <I>Hamlet</I><br>    The challenge to the greatness of <I>Hamlet</I>: <I>Hamlet</I> versus <I>Lear</I> <br><I>Hamlet</I> in our time<br>    The soliloquies and the modernity of <I>Hamlet</I><br>    <I>Hamlet</I> and Freud<br>    Reading against the <I>Hamlet</I> tradition<br><I>Hamlet</I> in Shakespeare€s time<br>    <I>Hamlet</I> at the turn of the century<br>    The challenge of dating <I>Hamlet</I><br>        Was there an earlier <I>Hamlet</I> play?<br>        Are there any early references to Shakespeare€s play?<br>        Can we date <I>Hamlet</I> in relation to other contemporary plays?<br>        <I>Hamlet</I>€s first performances<br>The story of <I>Hamlet</I><br>    Murder most foul<br>    An antic disposition<br>    €˜Sentences€, speeches and thoughts<br>The composition of <I>Hamlet</I><br>    The quartos and the Folio<br>        The quartos<br>        The First Folio<br>        The relationship of Q2 to Q1<br>        The relationship of F to Q2<br>        What, then, of Q1?<br>        Editorial practice<br>        Why a three-text edition?<br><I>Hamlet</I> on stage and screen<br>    Hamlet and his points<br>    Enter the director<br>    <I>Hamlet</I> and politics<br>Novel Hamlets<br>    Hamlet meets Fielding, Goethe, Dickens and others<br>    <I>Hamlet</I> and women novelists<br>    Prequels and sequels<br>The continuing mystery of <I>Hamlet<br><br></I>THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK (The Second Quarto, 1604-5)<br><br>APPENDICES<br>Appendix 1: Folio-only passages<br>Appendix 2: Textual discussion<br>Appendix 3: Editorial conventions, sample edited passages and a comparison of scenes across the three texts<br>Appendix 4: The act division at 3.4/4.1<br>Appendix 5: Casting<br>Appendix 6: Music<br><br>Abbreviations and references <br>    Abbreviations used in notes <br>    Works by and partly by Shakespeare <br>    Editions of Shakespeare collated <br>    Other works cited<br><br>Index </P></DIV></DIV>