Hamlet

by Shakespeare, William

• ISBN13: 9780312256920
• ISBN10: 0312256922
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-14
• Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	p. ix
Shakespeare's Hamlet	p. xiii
Reading Shakespeare's Language: Hamlet	p. xiv
Shakespeare's Life	p. xxiv
Shakespeare's Theater	p. xxxiii
The Publication of Shakespeare's Plays	p. xlii
An Introduction to This Text	p. xlvii
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Text of the Play with Commentary	p. 1
Textual Notes	p. 289
Hamlet: A Modern Perspective	p. 307
Further Reading	p. 327
Key to Famous Lines and Phrases	p. 339
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