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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (2nd ed)

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Philip Edwards aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare s most famous and most perplexing play.

In his Introduction Edwards considers the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it neared production, creating differences between the two early texts, quarto and folio.

Edwards concentrates on essentials, dealing succinctly with the huge volume of commentary and controversy which the play has provoked and offering a way forward which enables us once again to recognise its full tragic energy.

For this updated edition, Robert Hapgood has added a new section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to the play.

He discusses recent film and stage performances, actors of the Hamlet role as well as directors of the play; his account of new scholarship stresses the role of remembering and forgetting in the play, and the impact of feminist and performance studies.

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Product Details
Cambridge University Press
0521532523 / 9780521532525
Paperback / softback
822.33
21/04/2003
United Kingdom
English
260 p. : ill.
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Previous ed.: 1999.