Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - The New Cambridge Shakespeare

Updated Edition

Hardback (21 Apr 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Hamlet, edited by Philip Edwards, brings readers, playgoers and directors into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare's most famous and perplexing play. In the introduction, Edwards explores 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 that the play has provoked, and offers a way forward that enables us to recognise Hamlet's full tragic energy. In a new supplementary section, Robert Hapgood discusses recent stage, film and critical interpretations of the play.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521825450
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
Edition: Updated Edition
DEWEY: 822.33
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 258
Weight: 556g
Height: 237mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 21mm